Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Classroom in a Book

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1 In the Edit tab of the Tasks panel, click the Project button

( ) . In Project

view, locate the fi le Lesson09_Movie.wmv, and then double-click it to open the

video into the Preview window.

2 In the Preview window, click the Play button (

) to watch the video about

a visit to the water park, which you will build in this lesson.

3 When done, close the Preview window by clicking the Close button (

) in the

upper-right corner of the window.

Creating a simple title

You can add titles to your movie—whether simple still titles, advanced titles with

added graphics, or styled text scrolling across the screen horizontally or vertically—

directly in the Monitor panel of Adobe Premiere Elements. To begin, you will cre-

ate a basic still title. You will work with the water park project, starting by adding

a title clip at the beginning of the movie. First you will add a few seconds of black

video, over which you can then type the title text.

1 In the Sceneline of the My Project panel, click the fi rst clip to select it. In the

upper-right corner of Project view, click the New Item button (

), and then

choose Black Video from the menu that appears.

2 Adobe Premiere Elements inserts a 5-second black video clip after the fi rst clip

in the Sceneline. To move the black video clip to the beginning of the movie,

click and drag it to the left of the fi rst clip in the Sceneline.

194 LESSON 9 Titles and Credits

3 With the black video still selected in the Sceneline, choose Title > New Title >

Default Still. Adobe Premiere Elements places the default title text over

the black video in the Monitor panel and switches to title-editing mode. In

the mini-timeline of the Monitor panel, notice the bluish gray-colored clip

representation for the new title clip that is placed on top of the lavender-colored

clip representation for the black video clip. Also notice the text and drawing

tools now visible on the right side of the Monitor panel, and the text options,

text styles, and text animation choices accessible from Properties view.

4  e Horizontal Type tool should be selected by default.

If not, click the Horizontal Type tool button (

) to the

right of the Monitor panel to select it now.

5 Click in the text box and drag your pointer over the

default text to select it, type the words A day at the, and then press the Return

key to create a new line. Next, type the words WATER PARK.

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Note: The Horizontal

Type tool is grouped

with the Vertical Type

tool. To switch between

the two, click and hold

the Tool button, and

then choose from the

menu that appears.