Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Classroom in a Book

116 LESSON 6 Working with Effects

Getting started

To begin, launch Adobe Premiere Elements, open the Lesson06 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 Lesson06 folder

from the DVD in the back of this book onto your computer’s hard disk. For

more information, 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 Open folder.

4 In the Open Project dialog, navigate to the Lesson06 folder you copied to your

hard disk. Within that folder, select the fi le Lesson06_Start.prel, and then click

Open. 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.

5 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 play the completed movie.

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

).

2 In Project view, locate the fi le Lesson06_Movie.wmv, and then double-click it to

open the video into the Preview window.

3 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.

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

) in the

upper-right corner of the window.

Using eff ects

Eff ects ( ) are located in the Edit tab of the Tasks panel. All eff ects are stored

in either the Audio Eff ects folder or the Video Eff ects folder, and are organized by

type. For example, all video eff ects that create a blur are grouped within the Blur &

Sharpen folder inside the Video Eff ects folder.

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Note: Adobe

Premiere Elements

off ers a large selection

of diversifi ed eff ects.

It’s a good idea to look

up the gallery of video

eff ects in your Adobe

Premiere Elements Help

fi le, which gives you a

qu

ick overview of all

those eff ects actually

applied to an image.

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It’s helpful to think about eff ects in the following categories:

• Curative eff ects: Curative eff ects correct problems in your video footage,

including footage that’s too bright or too dark, backlighted video, video that’s

too shaky because it was shot without a tripod, and even video that’s a bit

blurry. You can fi nd corrective eff ects in the Adjust folder (including the Auto

Color, Auto Contrast, Auto Levels, and Shadow Highlight eff ects), Blur Sharpen

folder (Sharpen), Image Control folder (Black & White, Color Balance HLS,

Color Balance RGB), Gamma Correction folder (Tint), and Video Stabilizer

folder (Stabilizer).

• Overlay eff ects: Overlay eff ects allow you to composite one image over another.

You can fi nd overlay eff ects in the Keying and Videomerge folders.

• Artistic eff ects: Most other eff ects are artistic eff ects that let you create a

diff erent look or feel from the original clip.  ese artistic eff ects can be quite

powerful, like the Old Film eff ect in the New Blue Film Look folder that can

make your video look like an aged video by adding details like scratches and

graininess. Other artistic eff ects let you add lightning to a clip (Lightning eff ect

in Render folder), add earthquake-like eff ects (Earthquake eff ect in the NewBlue

Motion Eff ects Elements folder), place a spotlight on a subject (Lighting eff ects

in the Adjust folder), and do many other things.

• Speed controls: You can speed up or slow down your

clips in the Timeline of the My Project panel by right-

clicking the clip and choosing Time Stretch, or by

choosing Clip > Time Stretch in the Adobe Premiere

Elements menu.