Adding Photos to Your Movie

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.