Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Classroom in a Book

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1 In the list box next to Video Eff ects, click Video Stabilizer.

2 Drag the Stabilizer eff ect from Eff ects view and drop it onto the 12th clip in the

project, IceCream.avi.

3 Click the Properties button in the upper left of the My Project panel or the Edit

Eff ects button in Eff ects view to open the Eff ects Properties view.

4 In Properties view, click the twirl-down triangle to the left of the Stabilizer eff ect

to open the parameter settings.

5 Drag the current-time indicator to 00;01;11;21. You will notice a small black bar

on the bottom of the video frame on this and surrounding frames.

6 In Properties view, drag the Zoom slider to the right until the bar disappears.

7 Drag through the rest of the clip to see if any other bars appear. If not, click

Done on the lower right in Properties view to return to the Organizer or move

on to your next edit.

Play the clip, using the eyeball to the left of the Stabilizer eff ect to toggle it on and

off . Defi nitely easier to watch with the Stabilizer eff ect applied.

Changing playback speed

Speed changes are a commonly used eff ect, and Adobe Premiere Elements has two

techniques for speeding up or slowing down your video. In this exercise, you’ll learn

how to adjust the speed of clips bounded by others in the Timeline. In a subsequent

exercise, you’ll learn how to adjust the speed of a clip positioned on a separate track

from the other content.

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Note: As you’ve

seen, the Stabilize

eff ect works, in part,

by zooming into the

video, which can cause

some softness. Consider

applying the Sharpen

eff ect to counteract this

softness.

130 LESSON 6 Working with Effects

Specifi cally, in this exercise, you’ll adjust the speed of the second clip in the project,

Elephant.avi, which is a signature structure in the water park.  e current clip is

only about 2 seconds long—almost too quick to recognize—so you’ll increase that

to about 4.5 seconds. Note that you can only implement this eff ect in the Timeline,

so step 1 will send your clip to the Timeline of the My Project panel.

1 In the My Project panel, click the Timeline button to switch to Timeline. If

necessary, zoom into the Timeline so you can easily see the individual clips.

2 Right-click Elephant.avi, the second clip in the project, and choose Time

Stretch. Adobe Premiere Elements opens the Time Stretch panel.

3 Type 50 in the Speed box (where it will appear as

50.00%), and select the Maintain Audio Pitch checkbox.

4 Click OK to close the panel. Nothing changes in the

Timeline because Adobe Premiere Elements doesn’t

automatically move any clips when you change the

speed of an adjacent clip. In other words, though you’ve

slowed down the frames visible on the Timeline, you haven’t extended the

duration of the clip.

5 To extend the duration of the clip, hover the pointer over the right edge of

Elephant.avi in the Timeline.  e pointer changes to a two-headed pointer

(

) with the bracket pointing to the left. Make sure that you’re grabbing the

Elephant.avi clip, not the next clip in the timeline, HorseRide.avi.. Drag the

pointer to the right until the pop-up box on the Timeline, or the timecode on the

bottom left of the split-screen monitor reads +00;00;02;10. If you drag too far, the

black frames that you trimmed out of the clip in Chapter 5 will start to appear.

6 Save your project as Lesson06_Work.prel.