Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Classroom in a Book

30 LESSON 2 Getting Ready to Edit

Review questions

1 What’s the most important factor to consider when choosing a project setting?

2 Why is it so important to choose the right setting at the start of the project?

3 What is letterboxing, and what’s a common cause for having letterboxes appear in your

project?

4 What is Auto Save, and where do you adjust the Auto Save defaults in Adobe Premiere

Elements?

5 What command do you use for restoring your workspace to the default panel

confi guration?

Review answers

1 Choose a setting that matches the primary video that you will use in the project. For

example, if you’re shooting in widescreen DV, you should use a Widescreen DV project

setting.

2 It’s critical to choose the right setting when starting a project because unlike most

Adobe Premiere Elements confi guration items, you can’t change the Project Setting

after you create the project. In some instances, you may have to start the project over

using the correct setting to produce optimal results.

3 Letterboxing is a display technique characterized by black bars on the sides, or on the

top and on bottom of video in the Monitor panel. One of the most common causes of

letterboxing is a discrepancy between the display aspect ratio of the project setting and

the display aspect ratio of a video fi le imported into the project. For example, if you

import 4:3 video into a 16:9 project, Adobe Premiere Elements will display letterboxes

on both sides of the video in the Monitor panel.

4 Adobe Premiere Elements’ Auto Save function automatically saves a copy of the

project fi le at specifi ed intervals, guarding against loss of work due to power outages or

other random crashes. You can adjust the Auto Save defaults in the Preferences panel

accessed by choosing Edit > Preferences.

5 Choose Window > Restore Workspace.

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