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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 add markers to clips, use markers to position and arrange clips, copy and paste markers, and display marker comments in Premiere Elements.

Markers indicate important points in time and help you position and arrange clips. You can use a marker to identify an important action or sound in a sequence or clip. Markers are only for reference and don’t alter the video. Markers are available only in Advanced View timeline and not in Quick Sceneline.

Types of Markers

Comment Marker

Comment markers are used to comment or add a note about the selected part of the timeline.

Chapter Marker

Chapter markers in the project allow reviewers to quickly jump to those points in the finished video.

Add a marker to a clip in the Source and Program Monitor

  1. Open the clip in the Source Monitor from the Timeline or Project Assets.

  2. Place the Playhead where you’d like to add the marker.

  3. Right-click > Add Marker.

Add a marker to a clip in the timeline

  1. Select the clip. Place the Playhead where you’d like to add the marker.

  2. Right-click > Add Marker.

Tip:

You can inspect the clip marker dialog box by double-clicking the marker in the Source Monitor.

Find Markers

You can find markers using the marker navigation tools, move them from their original locations by dragging them, or delete them altogether.

Once a marker is set, double-click it in the time ruler to view marker information. 

The sequence marker tooltip displays the following information on up to four items:

  • Marker name (optional, shown only if entered)
  • Timecode start (always displayed)
  • Duration (optional, shown only if the marker has a duration)
  • Comment text (optional, shown only if entered)

Navigate among markers

  1. Select the Marker icon in the timeline.

  2. Right click on the marker > Go to Next Marker, or to move to the previous marker, select  Go to Previous Marker.

You can use the option in the Marker context menu to navigate between the markers.

Move a marker

  1. To move a clip marker in a clip that’s in a sequence, open the clip in the Source Monitor.

  2. Drag the Marker icon in the Source Monitor time ruler.

  3. To move a sequence marker, you can drag the marker in the Timeline panel or the Source Monitor time ruler.

Note:

Dragging a marker in the Source Monitor time ruler moves the corresponding marker icon in the Timeline panel.

Delete markers

Clear Marker

  1. To delete a clip marker, cue the playhead to the clip marker and then open the clip in the Source Monitor.

  2. To clear a marker, Right click on Marker > Clear Selected Marker.

  3. Use the Clear All Markers option to clear all the markers.

Note:

When you use the Clear All Markers option, Premiere Elements removes all sequence and clip markers on selected clips. Clear a marker by right-clicking on a marker and then selecting Clear Selected Marker from the context menu.

Edit Marker

Clip Markers

You can add comments, names, and set marker colors using the Edit Marker dialog. 

  1. To delete a clip marker, cue the playhead to the clip marker and then open the clip in the Source Monitor.

  2. To edit a marker, Right click on Marker > Edit Marker.

  3. Use the options from the dialog box to add a name, comment, and color to the selected marker. 

Set Marker Colors

You can set marker colors using keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Elements. The default color of a marker is green. To change this preference, you can set keyboard shortcuts for each color.

  1. To open the Keyboard Shortcuts window, select Edit > Keyboard Customization.

  2. In the Command section, add keyboard shortcuts for each different marker color. To view the list of marker colors, scroll to the bottom of the list under the Command column.

  3. Use the Command section to add keyboard shortcuts for different marker colors.

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