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  1. Adobe Premiere Elements User Guide
  2. Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements
    1. What's new in Premiere Elements
    2. System requirements | Adobe Premiere Elements
    3. Workspace basics
    4. Guided mode
    5. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
    6. GPU accelerated rendering
  3. Workspace and workflow
    1. Get to know the Home screen
    2. View and share auto-created collages, slideshows, and more
    3. Workspace basics
    4. Source Monitor and Program Monitor
    5. Preferences
    6. Tools
    7. Keyboard shortcuts
    8. Audio View
    9. Undoing changes
    10. Customizing shortcuts
    11. Working with scratch disks
  4. Working with projects
    1. Creating a project
    2. Adjust project settings and presets
    3. Save and back up projects
    4. Previewing movies
    5. Creating video collage
    6. Creating Highlight Reel
    7. Create a video story
    8. Creating Instant Movies
    9. Viewing clip properties
    10. Viewing a project's files
    11. Archiving projects
    12. GPU accelerated rendering
  5. Importing and adding media
    1. Add media
    2. Guidelines for adding files
    3. Set duration for imported still images
    4. 5.1 audio import
    5. Working with offline files
    6. Sharing files between Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop Elements
    7. Creating specialty clips
    8. Work with aspect ratios and field options
  6. Arranging clips
    1. Arrange clips in the Expert view timeline
    2. Group, link, and disable clips
    3. Arranging clips in the Quick view timeline
    4. Working with clip and timeline markers
    5. Sequence settings
  7. Editing clips
    1. Reduce noise
    2. Select object
    3. Candid Moments
    4. Color Match
    5. Smart Trim
    6. Change clip speed and duration
    7. Split clips
    8. Freeze and hold frames
    9. Adjusting Brightness, Contrast, and Color - Guided Edit
    10. Stabilize video footage with Shake Stabilizer
    11. Replace footage
    12. Working with source clips
    13. Trimming Unwanted Frames - Guided Edit
    14. Trim clips
    15. Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
    16. Artistic effects
  8. Color Correction and Grading
    1. Color Correction and Grading (LUTs)
    2. Color Correction Panel
    3. Color Correction Settings
  9. Applying transitions
    1. Applying transitions to clips
    2. Transition basics
    3. Adjusting transitions
    4. Adding Transitions between video clips - Guided Edit
    5. Create special transitions
    6. Create a Luma Fade Transition effect - Guided Edit
  10. Special effects basics
    1. Effects reference
    2. Applying and removing effects
    3. Create a black and white video with a color pop - Guided Edit
    4. Time remapping - Guided edit
    5. Effects basics
    6. Working with effect presets
    7. Finding and organizing effects
    8. Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
    9. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    10. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    11. Best practices to create a time-lapse video
  11. Applying special effects
    1. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
    2. Transparency and superimposing
    3. Reposition, scale, or rotate clips with the Motion effect
    4. Apply an Effects Mask to your video
    5. Adjust temperature and tint
    6. Create a Glass Pane effect - Guided Edit
    7. Create a picture-in-picture overlay
    8. Applying effects using Adjustment layers
    9. Adding Title to your movie
    10. Removing haze
    11. Creating a Picture in Picture - Guided Edit
    12. Create a Vignetting effect
    13. Add a Split Tone Effect
    14. Add FilmLooks effects
    15. Add an HSL Tuner effect
    16. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    17. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    18. Animated Sky - Guided edit
    19. Select object
    20. Animated Mattes - Guided Edit
    21. Double exposure- Guided Edit
  12. Special audio effects
    1. Mix audio and adjust volume with Adobe Premiere Elements
    2. Audio effects
    3. Adding sound effects to a video
    4. Adding music to video clips
    5. Create narrations
    6. Using soundtracks
    7. Music Remix
    8. Adding Narration to your movie - Guided Edit
    9. Adding Scores to your movie - Guided edit
  13. Movie titles
    1. Creating titles
    2. Adding shapes and images to titles
    3. Adding color and shadows to titles
    4. Apply Gradients
    5. Create Titles and MOGRTs
    6. Add responsive design
    7. Editing and formatting text
    8. Align and transform objects
    9. Motion Titles
    10. Appearance of text and shapes
    11. Exporting and importing titles
    12. Arranging objects in titles
    13. Designing titles for TV
    14. Applying styles to text and graphics
    15. Adding a video in the title
  14. Disc menus
    1. Creating disc menus
    2. Working with menu markers
    3. Types of discs and menu options
    4. Previewing menus
  15. Sharing and exporting your movies
    1. Export and share your videos
    2. Export settings
    3. Sharing for PC playback
    4. Compression and data-rate basics
    5. Common settings for sharing

Learn to automatically find and select the best scenes based on the style of your video in Premiere Elements.

Trimming a video is the primary task in editing, and it can be difficult and time-consuming. Smart Trim auto-extracts the best scenes based on attributes such as people (single or multiple), action, and quality.

Smart Trim

Smart Trim in Premiere Elements is a powerful tool that lets you quickly and easily edit your clips by automatically identifying and trimming unwanted parts. It detects low-quality segments, such as shaky footage, poor lighting, or irrelevant footages. It suggests cuts to keep your clips engaging and focused on the best moments. 

To apply Smart Trim to your selected clips in the timeline, do one of the following:

  • Click on the Tools button in the action bar on the right side and select Smart Trim.
  • Select Tools from the menu bar > Smart Trim.
Smart Trim

Auto-extract best scenes

If you want to modify the auto-extracted results, you can change the slider position to add more or fewer scenes. You can further adjust the results by manually adding, deleting, or changing the duration of individual scenes. Preview and export the trimmed clip to the sceneline when you are happy with the modification.

  1. Import media through the Add Media panel if you are in the Quick view sceneline or the Advanced view. 

  2. Select the video clip in the quick view sceneline or the Advanced view.

  3. To launch the Smart Trim screen, select the video clip and select Tools > Smart Trim.

    The Smart Trim screen opens with the selected video clip. 

  4. Use an available preset to automatically mark the best scenes. Select a preset based on the style of your video.

    People This preset focuses on faces in the video clip along with other quality filters to find scenes with people. This preset is recommended for family-event videos (for example, wedding, birthday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas gatherings).

    Action This preset focuses on activities in the video clip along with other quality filters to find scenes where there is medium-to-high activity or action happening. This preset is recommended for sports and dance videos (for example, action sports, school sports, school ballet dance, kids dancing, and kids playing).

    Mix This preset focuses on the combination of faces, activities, and camera motion along with other quality filters to find scenes. This preset is recommended for travel and nature videos (for example, beaches, mountains, cruises, and vacations with the family.)

    Once you select a preset, smart trim automatically analyzes the clip and marks relevant segments. Clips that are analyzed once are not analyzed again. 

  5. Check the extracted scenes highlighted in the sceneline. You can see the duration of the extracted video at the bottom of the timeline.

  6. If you are not satisfied with the automatic extraction, do one of the following:

    • Use the slider to manage the number of extracted scenes. Drag the slider to the left to extract fewer scenes or to the right to extract more scenes.

  7. Use one of the following smart trim options as required:

    Smart trim options
    Smart trim options

    Reset

    Click to remove all the extracted scenes. For information about removing a specific extracted scene, see Remove unwanted extracted scenes.

    Mark Manually

    Click to manually extract scenes from the clip. For more information, see Manually extract scenes.

    Apply Transitions

    Select to apply transitions while moving from one extracted scene to another.

    Preview

    Click to preview the generated output.

    Export Merged

    Click to export all the extracted scenes as a one clip to the sceneline.

    Export Individual

    Click to export all the extracted scenes as individual clips to the sceneline.

Manually extract scenes

If some of your favorite scenes are not in the set of automatically extracted scenes, you can extract those scenes manually.

  1. Move the CTI in the timeline to the frame that you want to extract manually.

  2. Do one of the following:

    • Click Clip + button in the timeline.

    • Select the Mark Manually option.

  3. Drag  to increase or decrease the duration of the extracted scene.

Remove unwanted extracted scenes

  1. From the set of extracted scenes in the timeline, select any scene that you want to remove.

  2. Hover the mouse cursor on the upper right corner of the selected scene. Now, click x to remove the selected scene.

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