84 LESSON 5 Editing Video
Getting started
To begin, launch Adobe Premiere Elements, open the Lesson05 project, and review
a fi nal version of the movie you’ll be creating.
1 Before you begin, make sure that you have correctly copied the Lesson04 and 05
folder from the DVD in the back of this book onto your computer’s hard disk.
See “Copying the Classroom in a Book fi les” in the Getting Started section at the
start of this book.
2 Launch Adobe Premiere Elements.
3 In the Welcome screen, click the Open Project button, and then the Open
project folder.
4 In the Open Project dialog, navigate to the Lesson04 and 05 folder you copied to
your hard disk.
5 Within that folder, select the fi le Lesson05_Start.prel, and then click Open. Be
sure not to select Lesson04_Start.prel. If a dialog appears asking for the location
of rendered fi les, click the Skip Previews button.
Your project fi le opens with the Monitor, Tasks, and My Project panels open.
6 Choose Window > Restore Workspace to ensure that you start the lesson with
the default panel layout.
Viewing the completed
movie before you start
To see what you’ll be creating in this lesson, you can take a look at the completed
movie.
1 In the Edit tab of the Tasks panel, click Project (
). In Project view, locate
the fi le Lesson05_Movie.wmv, and then double-click it to open the video in 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.
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3 When done, close the Preview window by clicking the Close button (
) in the
upper-right corner of the window.
Setting up your DV hardware
If you’re working with a DV camcorder, you can preview your work on an external
monitor. Note that this procedure is optional; it’s not required to complete any of
the lessons in this Classroom in a Book.
Sending video/audio outpu
t from Adobe Premiere Elements to an external monitor
takes a bit of setup but is often worthwhile. Computer monitors and TV monitors
use two diff erent methods for displaying video; therefore, the color and brightness
levels you see on you
r computer monitor often do not match those on a standard
TV set. Previewing your video on a TV will allow you to spot earlier in a project
potential issues such as the length of shots, transitions, titles, etc.
To connect your
computer to your VCR and TV, do the following:
1 Connect your DV camcorder to the IEEE 1394 port or a USB (Universal Serial Bus)
port on your PC.
2 Using an AV connector (which should have come with your DV camcorder),
connect your camcorder to you
r TV set.
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