Adobe Premier Elements 7

Movie Making Software Tutorial

Start a new project

Name your project and save it to the DESKTOP!

Make a New Folder on the desktop

Name it so you can find it again!“Your name and title”

You need to put your clips on the desktop in the folder you made.

A note on the Desktop

• We need to save video files where there is more space

• The desktop is a folder on the C: Drive• The C: Drive is a hard-drive in the computer• It is your desktop when you log on, not anyone

else’s• Name your folder so you can find it• Include your name, the subject, and a date or

number• The LIMITATION is: it is only on ONE

COMPUTER!!!!

Find your media, clips, and import them

Find them on the desktop

Select all your files.

They show up here

Then you begin editing them here.

Drag your clips to the sceneline (or timeline)

Choose a task in the Edit Tab

Project: where your clips are stored

Themes: styles of production effects

Effects: video or audio effects you can use to change your clips

Transitions: how the clips can flow together

Titles: types of words and shapes you can put on the or between the clips

Choose one of these

transitions

Add Transitions to the Sceneline

Or to the timeline

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Trim clips at the beginning or end

Split clips using the

menu or the

“C” cut / razor tool

Regular selection tool = press V key on the keyboard

Razor tool, cuts clips = press C key

Time stretch tool, makes clips move slower or take longer Or move faster, take shorter time = press X key

Tools and shortcuts

(Choose the Regular tool, V key, because the other ones can’t do everything)

Add Effects (FX)

Edit Effects here.

Change the way effects look

Add a title to the start, here…

Double click the title, to get a menu

Turn your Premier file into a Movie

Choose Personal Computer

Choose MPEG

Change the Presets

NTSC VCD

NAME IT

Name it

Save In – Browse to Desktop

Save

it to

the

desk

top

Click Save & Wait…

Click Save