Tools

Learn about the Tools panel in Adobe Premiere Elements, which is crucial and provides access to various editing tools to edit your clips

The Tools panel provides options that let you add cool effects to your video. For example, use Time Remapping and Smart Mix to add sophisticated motion effects to your video. You can choose Smart Trim to let Premiere Elements automatically edit your footage for a crisper video.

Candid Moments

A video usually has various candid moments. Adobe Premiere Elements helps you mark and extract all your favorite moments in a video as a single collated or individual clip. You can use the extracted clips of favorite moments for editing or sharing.

For more information, see Mark and extract your candid moments.

Color Match

Color Match is used to ensure consistent color tones across different photos, videos, and parts of the images and videos. It helps blend clips together seamlessly by matching the color and lighting between the target videos and images.

For more information, see Color Match.

Freeze Frame

Grab a single frame from a video clip to use as a still image in your current movie or save it as a still on your hard drive for use elsewhere. For example, you can use a still in your clip to show a character starting an action but then stopping mid-action, frozen on the screen.

For more information, see Freeze Frame.

Color Correction and Grading

Color Correction and Grading are used to color-correct the clips with adjustments, LUTs, and curves. These tools allow you to adjust your sequences' color, contrast, and light in new and innovative ways.

For more information, see Color Correction and Grading.

Pan & Zoom

Using the pan and zoom tool in Adobe Premiere Elements, you can create video-like effects from images or movie clips. For movie clips, the effect works best when there is minimal movement of objects within the clip.

When working with the pan and zoom tool, you select objects and the order in which they are panned and zoomed into. Adobe Premiere Elements provides you with customization options using which you can apply the effect according to your requirements.

For more information, see Pan and zoom to create video-like effect.

Smart Trim

Smart trimming enables you to trim the low-quality sections of a video file. Smart trim can be done manually and automatically. You can trim clips from the Quick view timeline or the Advanced view timeline.

For more information, see Smart trimming.

Time Remapping

Add a slow or fast motion effect to your videos for that wow factor. For more information, see Time remapping.

Audio tools

Audio Mixer

Use the Audio Mixer to adjust audio balance and volume for different tracks in your project. You can adjust the balance and level of audio contained within your video clips, and within soundtrack and narration audio.

For more information, see Audio Mixer.

Smart Mix

SmartMix enables automatic adjustment of the volume of the background music. For best results, place dialog clips on the Audio 1 track or the Narration track (Foreground tracks) and music on the Soundtrack track (Background tracks). Premiere Elements analyzes clips on all Foreground tracks for dialogs. Keyframes are then smartly/automatically created to lower the volume level to ensure that the dialog in the Foreground track is audible. SmartMix adjustments apply to all audio clips on the Expert view timeline, not just on the selected clip. When you use SmartMix on an audio track, keyframes you applied previously on the Soundtrack are deleted.

For more information, see Smart Mixer.

Audio Gain

Audio Gain helps in normalizing audio, by either raising or lowering it to match with the other audio sources.

For more information, see Audio Gain.