Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Classroom in a Book

98 LESSON 5 Editing Video

Working with the My Project

panel in the Timeline

While most basic editing tasks can be performed in the Sceneline together with the

Monitor panel, you’ll use the Timeline for many advanced editing tasks, especially

those that involve layering, which means having multiple clips in the project at the

same location. For example, creating a Picture-in-Picture (PiP) overlay with one

video over another, as you have in the title of the Lesson 5 project, is easier in the

Timeline.

Briefl y, the Timeline graphically represents your movie as video and audio clips

arranged in vertically stacked tracks. Before working with the Timeline, ...