Book description
Just because you don't work for a major production house and you don't plan to add Star Wars style special effects to your latest movie project doesn't mean you don't want to do interesting things with the video you've shot. Now, with Adobe's first consumer-level video editing software you can-and at $99, you won't spend an arm and a leg to do so! In these pages, veteran author Antony Bolante provides all the instruction you need to start editing video fast with Adobe Premiere Elements. Just as Photoshop Elements brought image manipulation to the masses, Premiere Elements brings video editing prowess to anybody who owns a digital video camera. Whether you're a student filmmaker, a video hobbyist, or a proud parent who wants to put together a snazzy film of your daughter's winning soccer season, Antony's simple step-by-step instructions and straightforward teaching style will have you capturing and importing video, creating transitions and titles, and outputting the final product with Premier Elements in no time.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Thank You
- Back to Basics
- 1. Basic Elements
- 2. Starting a Project
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3. Capturing and Adding Footage
- Capturing DV Footage
- Digitizing Analog Footage
- Digitizing Three Ways
- Capture and the Capture Window
- Watching Video During Capture
- Controlling a Camera with the Capture Window
- Storing Captured Footage
- Using Playback Controls in the Capture Window
- Capturing DV
- Adding Media
- Adding Stills
- Adding Still-Image Sequences
- Creating a Still Image in Photoshop Elements
- Generating Synthetic Media
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4. Managing Clips
- Working with the Media Window
- Viewing Items in the Media Window
- Working with Icon View
- Working with List View
- Selecting and Deleting Items in the Media Window
- Using the Preview Area of the Media Window
- Organizing Clips in Folders
- Duplicating and Copying Source Clips
- Renaming Clips
- Finding Clips
- Interpreting Footage
- Locating Files for Offline Items
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5. Editing Clips into a Sequence
- Summarizing the Chapter
- Using the Monitor Window
- Viewing Clips in the Monitor Window
- Opening Audio Clips
- Using Playback Controls
- Cuing the Monitor Window Numerically
- Using the Monitor Window’s Time Ruler
- Changing the Magnification
- Comparing Editing Methods
- Setting In and Out Points
- Setting Clip Markers
- Comparing Overlay and Insert Edits
- Adding Clips by Dragging
- Adding Clips to the Timeline Automatically
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6. Editing in the Timeline
- Summarizing the Chapter
- Viewing the Sequence
- Customizing Track Views
- Resizing Tracks
- Adding, Deleting, and Renaming Tracks
- Getting Around the Timeline
- Playing the Sequence in the Timeline
- Using Sequence Markers
- Understanding the Link between Video and Audio
- Selecting Clips in the Timeline
- Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Clips
- Removing Clips and Gaps from the Sequence
- Enabling and Disabling Clips
- Grouping Clips
- Splitting Clips
- Playing Clips at a Different Speed or in Reverse
- Creating a Freeze Frame
- Adjusting a Clip’s Gain
- Using the Snapping Feature
- Editing by Dragging
- Understanding Trimming
- Trimming Clips in the Timeline
- Breaking and Creating Links
- Keeping Sync
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7. Adding Transitions
- Using the Effects Palette
- Understanding Transitions
- Understanding Transition Duration and Alignment
- Setting the Default Transition Duration
- Specifying a Default Transition
- Applying a Transition
- Using the Effect Controls Palette with Transitions
- Adjusting a Transition’s Duration and Alignment
- Customizing Transition Settings
- 8. Previewing a Sequence
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9. Creating Titles
- Using the Title Designer Window
- Creating Titles
- Saving Titles
- Viewing the Video in the Background
- Superimposing a Title Over Video
- Viewing the Video Safe Zones
- Comparing Text Options
- Creating Point Text
- Creating Paragraph Text
- Selecting Text
- Formatting Text
- Using Styles
- Creating Scrolls and Crawls
- Creating Shape Objects
- Setting Color Properties
- Adding Images to Titles
- Transforming Objects
- Positioning Objects Automatically
- Arranging Objects
- Aligning Objects
- Distributing Objects
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10. Adding Effects
- Summarizing the Chapter
- Comparing Effect Types
- Understanding Properties and Animation
- Viewing Effect Property Values
- Choosing a Keyframing Method
- Understanding Opacity and Volume Graphs
- Rubberbanding Opacity and Volume
- Adjusting Keyframes in the Timeline
- Adding Standard Effects
- Using Preset Effects
- Viewing Properties in the Effect Controls Window
- Viewing Motion Effects
- Setting Spatial Properties in the Timeline View
- Disabling and Removing Effects
- Resetting an Effect to Its Default Values
- Specifying Custom Settings
- Using Multiple Effects
- Keyframing in the Effect Controls Window
- Using Keyframes in the Effect Controls Window
- Understanding Interpolation
- Interpolation Types
- Reshaping a Motion Path
- Specifying a Spatial Interpolation Method
- Specifying a Temporal Interpolation Method
- Standard Effect Categories
- 11. Export
Product information
- Title: Premiere Elements for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2004
- Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
- ISBN: 9780321267900
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