Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Classroom in a Book

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6 Press the spacebar on your keyboard to stop the playback, and then close the

Preview Disc window by clicking the Close button (

) in the upper-right

corner of the window.

7 After reviewing the fi nished fi le, choose File > Close. In the dialog, click No so

that you do not save any changes made to the project.  en, click the Open

Project button, click Open, select the fi le Lesson11_Start.prel, and click Open. If

a dialog appears asking for the location of rendered fi les, click the Skip Previews

button.

8 Choose Window > Restore Workspace to ensure that you start the lesson with

the default panel layout.

Understanding DVDs and Blu-ray Discs

DVD is an optical disc storage medium similar to a compact disc but capable of

storing much more data. For example, a CD stores about 700 megabytes (MB)

of data. A DVD stores up to 4.7 gigabytes (GB) of data on a single layer, or up to

8.4 GB on a dual layer disc. DVD is actually a generic term that encompasses a few

diff erent formats.  e format you will be working with in Adobe Premiere Elements

is commonly referred to as DVD-Video. In terms of disc content and playability,

this is the same type of DVD that you can purchase or rent and play on a DVD

player connected to your TV set or on a computer fi tted with the appropriate drive.

A Blu-ray Disc—often abbreviated as BD—is an optical disc format that can store

25 GB on a single-layer disc or 50 GB on a dual-layer disc. It gets its name from the

blue-violet laser a Blu-ray player uses to read it (as opposed to the red laser used by

CD and DVD players and drives).

To make a DVD or Blu-ray Disc in Adobe Premiere Elements, you must have a

compatible DVD or Blu-ray Disc burner. It is important to note that although your

system may have a DVD or Blu-ray Disc player it may not be a recordable drive,

also known as a DVD or Blu-ray Disc writer or burner. A computer drive that’s

described as “DVD-ROM” or “BD-ROM” will only play DVDs or Blu-ray Discs,

not record them. (But a “BD-ROM/DVD-R/CD-R drive” will play Blu-ray Discs,

play and record DVDs, and play and record CDs.) Check the system specifi cations

of your computer to see which drive (if any) you have. Drives capable of record-

ing DVDs and Blu-ray Discs are also available as external hardware. Often such

external recordable drives are connected through your system’s IEEE 1394 port,

although some drives connect through the USB port.

Note that the process of authoring your projects, or creating menus and menu

markers, is identical for Blu-ray Discs and DVDs. You’ll designate which type of

disc to record just before you burn the disc itself in the fi nal exercise in this lesson.