You can customize the look and behavior of Premiere Elements, from determining the default length of transitions to setting the brightness of the user interface. Most of these preferences remain in effect until you change them. The preferences you set for scratch disks, however, are saved with your projects. Whenever you open a project, it automatically defaults to the scratch disks you selected for it when you set up that project.
Preferences are stored in the following location:
For Windows: <drive>\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Elements
For Mac OS: <drive>/Users/<username>Library/Preferences/com.adobe.AdobePremiereElements.plist
In the General pane of the Preferences dialog box, you can customize settings for several things, from transition duration to tool tips, like the following:
Video and Audio Transition defaults
Specify the default duration for audio and video transitions
Still Image Default Duration
Specify the default duration to display still images.
Timeline Playback Auto-Scrolling
When a sequence is longer than the visible Timeline, you can select from different options to auto-scroll the Timeline during playback.
Default Scale To Frame Size
Select this preference to automatically scale imported assets to the project’s default frame size.
Timeline Playback Auto-Scrolling
You can set an option to automatically scroll the Expert view timeline from right to left, when a sequence is larger than the visible timeline. This way you don’t have to zoom out to see the entire sequence.
Hardware acceleration You can enable hardware acceleration for rendering, playback, and export on computers that have Intel HD Graphics 2000 and newer.
If required, you can choose to disable hardware acceleration:
Light and Dark modes are available from Premiere Elements 2024.
You can easily switch between Light and Dark modes from the Preferences menu.
Follow these steps to switch to Light or Dark mode:
Access the Preferences dialog box by either of the given methods:
The Preferences dialog box will appear on the screen > Select the desired UI Mode from the drop-down options.
A message for relaunching the application will appear on the screen. Select OK.
Select OK to close the Preferences dialog box > Relaunch the application for the change to take effect.
Play audio while scrubbing
Enables audio scrubbing. You can create a keyboard shortcut called “Toggle Audio During Scrubbing” to toggle audio scrubbing on or off while scrubbing. Using a keyboard shortcut is preferable to returning to the Preferences dialog box each time you want to turn audio scrubbing on or off.
Minimum Time Interval Thinning
Creates keyframes only at intervals larger than the value you specify. Enter a value from 1 through 2000 milliseconds.
In the Audio Hardware pane of the Preferences dialog box, you specify the computer audio device and settings, including the ASIO settings (Windows only), or buffer size setting (Mac OS only) that Premiere Elements uses for recording audio.
Output Mapping
You can specify the target speaker in your computer sound system for each supported audio channel.
Automatically Save Projects
By default, Premiere Elements automatically saves your project every 15 minutes and retains the last five versions of the project file on the hard disk.
You can revert to a previously saved version at any time. Archiving many iterations of a project consumes relatively little disk space because project files are much smaller than source video files. It’s best to save project files to the same drive as your application. Archived files are saved in the Premiere Pro Auto-Save folder.
Automatically Save Every
Automatically save Projects, and type the number of minutes you would like between saves.
Maximum Project Versions
Enter the number of versions of a project file you want to save. For example, if you type 10, Premiere Elements saves the ten most recent versions.
When you specify auto-save to occur at regular intervals, Premiere Elements auto-saves a project on detecting changes to the project file.
The auto-save occurs irrespective of whether you manually save the changes to the project or not. Earlier, Premiere Elements would not execute auto-save if you manually saved within the interval setting. If the system goes idle for a period beyond the interval setting, Premiere Elements forces an auto-save.
Controls how Premiere Elements transfers video and audio directly from a deck or camera. (None of the other project settings options affect capturing.) The contents of this panel depend on the editing mode. If you’re capturing DV footage, use the default DV capture settings. When DV/IEEE 1394 Capture is the selected capture format, no options are available because the options are automatically set to the IEEE 1394 standard. Additional capture formats and options appear if you install other software, such as software included with a capture card certified to be compatible with Premiere Elements.
For P2 DVCPRO 50 and P2 DVCPRO HD projects, the Capture Format setting is not relevant, because the assets are captured and recorded directly to the P2 card as digital files by the camera.
In the Device Control pane of the Preferences dialog box, you specify the settings Premiere Elements uses to control a playback/recording device, such as a VTR or camcorder.
Premiere Elements creates a lot of intermediate files which are used in projects. These are termed Media Cache.
You can set the media cache size to keep cleaning your hard drive. Slide to increase or decrease the Media Cache Size using the Cache Size slider.
Select Clean Now to clear the cache. Select the Automatically Clean Once in a Month checkbox to periodically clean the files.
In the Titler pane of the Preferences dialog box, you can change the letters Premiere Elements shown in the Titler Style Swatches panel and in the font browser.
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