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devices. Choose iPod and iPhone – Medium Quality for a lower-quality fi le that

should be play on all MP3 devices, past and present. For the purposes of this

exercise, choose iPod and iPhone - High Quality.

4 Next to File Name, enter Lesson12_iPod, then click Browse to select your

Lesson12 folder as the Save in folder.

5 If desired, select the Share WorkArea Bar Only checkbox.

6 To start exporting your movie, click Save.

Adobe Premiere Elements starts rendering the video, and displays a progress bar

in Share view and an estimated time to complete each phase of the rendering

process. Click Cancel at any time to stop the exporting process. Otherwise, you

will see a Save Complete! message in Share view once the rendering is complete.

7 Click Save As Quick Share to save the preset, or click Done to return to the

Share workspace.

After producing the fi le, transfer it to your device as normal. For example, use

iTunes to upload the fi le to your iPod or iPhone.

Preparing to export to tape

 e fi nal Share option is Tape, and if you have access to a DV camera, you may

want to use it for this exercise. We will proceed as if a DV camera is connected to

your system, but if not, you may follow this exercise anyway.

To begin, connect your DV camera to your personal computer and turn it on, then

open Adobe Premiere Elements. In most cases, if Adobe Premiere Elements is

already open, it will recognize a DV camera as it is attached and turned on; how-

ever, we’ve found this happens more reliably if the DV camera is connected fi rst.

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When writing videos to tape, it’s good practice to add some excess video to the

start of the project to prevent your recording device from accidentally cutting off

the fi rst few seconds of your project. In this regard, Adobe Premiere Elements lets

you create either a 5 second black video fi le, or a universal counting leader, which

looks like the countdown video that preceded older movies you may have viewed in

the theater. In this exercise, you’ll add a universal counting leader to your project

before writing it to tape.

1 Connect your DV camera to your computer. For help, refer to your owner’s

manual or the diagram located in Lesson 3, “Connecting your device.”

2 Turn on your DV device and switch it to the VTR (or VCR) mode. If a Digital

Video Device dialog appears, click the Cancel button to close it.

3 Start Adobe Premiere Elements and open the project fi le Lesson12_Start.prel in

the Lesson12 folder. If a dialog appears asking for the location of rendered fi les,

click the Skip Previews button.

4 In the Timeline of the My Project panel, press Home to move the current-time

indicator to the start of the project.

5 In the upper-right corner of Project view, click the New Item button (

), and

then choose Universal Counting Leader from the menu that appears.

6 Adobe Premiere Elements opens the Universal Counting Leader Setup dialog.

Leave all items at their default settings and click OK to close the dialog.

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A new item called Universal Counting Leader appears in your Media panel, and

Adobe Premiere Elements adds it to your Timeline after the fi rst scene.

7 In the Timeline, drag the newly added Universal Counting Leader to the

beginning of the movie, waiting for about 2 seconds for the 2 clips that comprise

the opening title, KillerWhale.avi and familyfun_frame, to shift to the right.

 en release the pointer, and Adobe Premiere Elements will move the Universal

Counting Leader to the beginning of the movie, and shift the audio fi les to the

right.

8  ere’s now a gap where the Universal Counting Leader had been. To close the

gap, right-click the gap and choose Delete and Close Gap.