Introducing Adobe Premiere Elements 10: Learn by Video

Make Movies the Easy Way

Premiere Elements 10 is a movie-making powerhouse disguised as a user-friendly consumer application. If you are starting out with a camera and want to discover what you can do with all those holiday videos or if you have experimented with basic video editing and want to get more creative, Premiere Elements is for you. In this Learn by Video workshop published in partnership with Peachpit Press, Maxim Jago shows you how to get fantastic results with simplicity and lots of fun. After building your familiarity with the various panels, options, and buttons, you’ll begin to make movies with edits, special effects, titles, and graphics. Then you’ll learn how to share your masterpieces with friends both online and on DVD, as well as with Premiere Elements 10’s new Web DVD feature.

Trainer: Maxim Jago

Publication date: Oct 12, 2011

$34.99

Duration: 3 hrs 30 min

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On-Demand or At Retail: What's the difference?

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Welcome to Introducing Adobe Premiere Elements 10: Learn by Video

Adobe Premiere Elements is a moviemaking powerhouse hidden inside a simple, user-friendly interface. This course introduces all of the tools you will be working with to create wonderful complete movies from your tapes, video files, photos, and music.

Introducing Adobe Premiere Elements 10
- This lesson introduces this course and Adobe Premiere Elements 10, giving a brief overview of Premiere Elements' main features and what it can do for you.
  
  Discovering Adobe Premiere Elements 10
  
  07:35
- Adobe Premiere Elements 10 includes some important new features that make editing slicker and quicker than ever. There are new effects and performance improvements that make a big difference if you are working with high-definition media. This lesson explains what's new.
  
  New Features in Premiere Elements 10
  
  07:42
The first step in understanding any new software is building familiarity. This lesson introduces the main panels, menus, and buttons in Premiere Elements so you can find your way around.

Getting to Know the Workspace
- When you first start up Premiere Elements, you will see a welcome screen with some simple options. After that, you'll meet the full Premiere Elements interface. This lesson walks you through it.
  
  The Welcome Screen and Main Panels
  
  07:50
- The arrangement of the Premiere Elements interface is not set in stone; you can open, close, and resize panels as you please. This lesson shows you how to make those changes and how to get back to where you started if you need to.
  
  Layouts and the Workspace
  
  06:07
Making movies is a journey from recording your original videos through the process of selecting the best bits, putting them together in the right order, adding some special effects, and showing it to people. This chapter gives you an overview of the complete lifecycle of a movie.

From Start to Finish
- To get a clear sense of what's involved in making a movie with Premiere Elements, in this video we'll go over the complete process, from looking at your video clips in the Elements Organizer to putting them in the right order in Premiere Elements and then choosing an output option.
  
  An Overview of Making a Movie with Premiere Elements
  
  07:53
- Putting video clips in the right order is the easy part. The real art of making films comes in the second stage, where you make subtle (or not so subtle) changes to improve the rhythm and look of your clips. This lesson introduces a few of the more advanced controls Premiere Elements has to offer for this purpose.
  
  The Art of Rhythm and Look
  
  07:49
The first step in using Premiere Elements is giving it some media to work with. This chapter shows you how to get the videos you have recorded from your camera to your computer and how to import other kinds of files into Premiere Pro.

Capturing Tapes and Importing Media Files
- If you have recorded video on tape, you will need to transfer it onto your computer to include it in a movie. This lesson shows you how.
  
  Transferring Videos from Tape
  
  07:19
- Premiere Elements has incredible flexibility when it comes to working with your media files. This lesson shows you how to bring just about any video, photos, or sound files you have into your movie.
  
  Importing All Kinds of Media Files
  
  07:55
The settings you choose for your project, such as the number of frames per second and the size of the image, are pretty important. Premiere Elements conforms all your video clips, photos, titles, graphics, and sound to match the settings you choose. This chapter explains the options available.

Creating a New Project and Understanding the Options
- Being prepared before you start editing can make a huge difference in how easily the edit goes - and how much fun you have. This lesson explains what you need to know to get primed for editing.
  
  Preparing to Start Editing
  
  06:10
- Some of the options available when creating a new project will be unfamiliar territory for new users. This lesson explains what the settings mean and gives you a quick and easy route to getting it right the first time.
  
  Understanding the Options When You Create a New Project
  
  07:57
It might seem crazy, but the more organized you are, the more fun you will have making your movie. This chapter shows you how to use the Elements Organizer to bring order to the chaos of making movies and introduces some core skills for building your first cut.

Arranging Clips to Make a Movie
- The Elements Organizer gives you many automatic and manual organizational tools. This lesson shows you how to let the Organizer do the hard work for you.
  
  Getting Organized
  
  07:58
- The Sceneline gives you a very sensible and user-friendly space in which to create your movie. This lesson shows you the quickest, easiest way to get started.
  
  Arranging Clips in the Sceneline
  
  08:01
- The Timeline provides more advanced controls than the Sceneline. This lesson explains the Timeline's controls and shows you how to build a movie with its professional approach to editing.
  
  Arranging Clips in the Timeline
  
  07:39
Once you have built your movie and watched it through, it's very likely you will want to make some changes to bring it to perfection. This chapter is all about tweaking and fine-tuning your movie.

Making Changes to Your Edit
- The Sceneline gives you super-efficient controls for moving clips or removing them from your movie. This lesson shows you the easy way to make quick cuts.
  
  Moving and Deleting Clips in the Sceneline
  
  04:39
- The Timeline gives you much more control and a greater ability to make fine adjustments than the Sceneline, though this makes it more complex to look at. This lesson shows you how to move and delete clips in your movie the professional way.
  
  Moving and Deleting Clips in the Timeline
  
  07:29
- Once you have mastered making movies the hard way, you can truly appreciate the power of the Instant Movie themes, which automatically create complex edits using a combination of automatic analysis and prebuilt template movie edits. This lesson shows you just how easily you can make a dramatic and exciting movie.
  
  Instant Movies
  
  08:26
Once you get the timing of your cuts right, you have lots of options for adding transitions and special effects. This chapter looks at some of the magical things you can do.

Adding Transitions and Special Effects
- Technically, cutting from one clip to the next counts as a transition, while a transition effect involves some kind of visual magic. This lesson shows you how to add transition effects, change their settings, and remove them.
  
  Creating Transition Effects
  
  07:41
- This lesson looks at the huge range of special effects that you can apply to your video clips in Premiere Elements. Many of them give you manual control, while others are automatic effects that simply make your video look better.
  
  Adding Special Effects
  
  07:57
Once you have created the perfect cut, you'll want to add some titles, graphics, and/or photos. These usually appear in front of your video to give information or perhaps just extra color. This chapter shows you how to add layering and "sparkle" to your movie.

Adding Titles and Using Graphics
- Premiere Elements offers two ways of adding titles to your movie. You can create them manually and have detailed control of the way they look, or you can create them automatically using one of the many free templates. This lesson shows you how to do both.
  
  Creating Titles
  
  06:34
- It is very common for people to bring home both videos and photos, and Premiere Elements allows you to combine the two very easily. In fact, there's even a special new feature in Premiere Elements 10 for panning and zooming inside high-resolution images. This lesson shows you how.
  
  Adding Photos to Your Movie
  
  08:05
Most of the time you'll be happy using the default preferences for everything, but there are some useful options you may want to know about for future reference. This chapter shows you the important preferences that can change the way you create movies with Premiere Elements.

Useful Preferences
- This lesson looks at some of the basic preferences in Premiere Elements, such as the default durations for transitions, the locations where files are stored, the Auto Save settings, and so on.
  
  Noteworthy General Preferences
  
  07:43
- There are some settings that you may want to change depending on how you personally prefer to work. This lesson looks at project settings, keyboard shortcuts, auto-scrolling, and more.
  
  Personal Preferences
  
  07:30
Music can make all the difference in creating a compelling movie. This chapter shows you how to bring life and drama to your video work.

Working with Music and Audio
- Adding music and sound clips to your movie is very similar to adding video clips. This lesson shows you how to combine pictures with new sound.
  
  Adding Music to Your Movie
  
  04:57
- Premiere Elements comes with SmartSound, which automatically generates great-quality music of whatever length you like. This lesson walks you through the process of creating a fresh piece of music to order.
  
  Using SmartSound
  
  04:29
- Once you've added some audio to your project, you'll want to adjust the volume a little. This lesson shows you the excellent tools at your disposal in Premiere Elements.
  
  Adjusting Your Audio
  
  07:55
When your movie is complete, all that remains is to share it with the world. This chapter shows you the various ways you can get your masterpiece out of your computer and into the limelight.

Previewing and Sharing Your Movie
- Premiere Elements allows you to create regular DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and Web DVDs, which will play on a web page with the same controls as a regular DVD. This lesson shows you how to get from hard drive to disc.
  
  Making a DVD
  
  07:36
- Sometimes you'll want a file of your movie rather than a complete DVD, particularly if you want to share your movie with video services like YouTube or Vimeo. This lesson introduces the key concepts and options you'll work with to create files for distribution.
  
  Creating a Movie File
  
  07:39
- Premiere Elements has excellent built-in tools for automatically sharing your video with online services. This lesson shows you just how easy it can be.
  
  Putting Your Movie on the Web
  
  06:53
- If you want to make a master tape of your movie, DV tape is an excellent option. This lesson shows you the controls and options used for output from Premiere Elements to tape.
  
  Recording to DV Tape
  
  06:40

Welcome to Introducing Adobe Premiere Elements 10: Learn by Video

In this course you'll learn how to use Adobe Premiere Elements to create, edit, customize, and share movies. The contents of this course include:

Introducing Adobe Premiere Elements 10
This chapter introduces all of the tools you will be working with to create complete movies from your tapes, video files, photos, and music.

Getting to Know the Workspace
The first step in understanding any new software is building familiarity. This lesson introduces the main panels, menus, and buttons of Premiere Elements so you can find your way around.

From Start to Finish
Making movies is a journey from recording your original videos through the process of selecting the best bits, putting them together in the right order, adding some special effects, and showing it to people. This chapter gives you an overview of the complete lifecycle of a movie.

Capturing Tapes and Importing Media Files
The first step in using Premiere Elements is giving it some media to work with. This chapter shows you how to get the videos you have recorded from your camera to your computer and how to import other kinds of files into Premiere Pro.

Creating a New Project and Understanding the Options
The settings you choose for your project, such as the number of frames per second and the size of the image, are pretty important. Premiere Elements conforms all your video clips, photos, titles, graphics, and sound to match the settings you choose. This chapter explains the options available.

Arranging Clips to Make a Movie
It might seem crazy, but the more organized you are, the more fun you will have making your movie. This chapter shows you how to use the Elements Organizer to bring order to the chaos of making movies and introduces some core skills for building your first cut.

Making Changes to Your Edit
Once you have built your movie and watched it through, it’s very likely you will want to make some changes to bring it to perfection. This chapter is all about tweaking and tuning your movie.

Adding Transitions and Special Effects
Once you get the timing of your cuts right, you have lots of options for adding transitions and special effects. This chapter looks at some of the magical things you can do.

Adding Titles and Using Graphics
Once you have created the perfect cut, you’ll want to add some titles, graphics, and/or photos. These usually appear in front of your video to give information or perhaps just extra color. This chapter shows you how to add layering and “sparkle” to your movie.

Useful Preferences
Most of the time you’ll be happy using the default preferences for everything, but there are some useful options you may want to know about for future reference. This chapter shows you the important preferences that can change the way you create movies with Premiere Elements.

Working with Music and Audio
Music can make all the difference in creating a compelling movie. This chapter shows you how to bring life and drama to your video work.

Previewing and Sharing Your Movie
When your movie is complete, all that remains is to share it with the world. This chapter shows you the various ways you can get your masterpiece out of your computer and into the limelight.

The lessons are wrapped in a feature-rich interface that lets you jump to any topic and bookmark individual sections for later review. Full-Screen mode provides a hi-def, immersive experience, and Watch-and-Work mode shrinks the video into a small window so you can play the videos alongside your application. Also included are exercise files that give you an easy way to try out the techniques you learn and a 48-page guide containing supplemental material.

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Broadband internet connection
Up-to-date browser with Flash plug-in
Screen resolution 1024x768 or higher
Sound card with speakers or headphones attached
Pentium 4 2.6 GHz or higher, or Apple Mac G5
512 MB RAM

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This course features video2brain’s interactive interface. As you navigate the course, rolling over a chapter or video brings up text describing that item.

Full-Screen mode provides a hi-def, immersive experience. And Watch-and-Work mode puts the video into a resizable window that you can shrink so you can watch the lessons on one side of your screen while you’re following along and applying what you’ve learned on the other.

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