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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 convert and modify the properties of a Project by selecting options from the Project panel in Premiere Elements.

Project Assets panel overview

The Project Assets panel in Premiere Elements is a dedicated area where users can manage and view various media assets for a specific project, including videos, audio files, and images. You can access this panel to organize, preview, and work with the assets associated with their project.

 You can now use the given features available in the Project Assets panel:

  • Thumbnail Size Slider
  • Auto Play on Hover
  • Project Name Display

The Project Assets panel lets you preview source material for your projects. To access it, select the Advanced view and then select Project Assets. You can view a project's contents using the list or icon view. Use the Panel options menu to switch between the views.

 The grid view displays a snapshot of the media you imported into the project. The Project Assets panel indicates files you use in the Advanced View timeline with a blue icon in the thumbnail. You can use the Search box to search for files within the panel.

Display and arrange media items

In the Project Assets panel, you can display items in the List view. The List view lets you view more items simultaneously, search, and sort items by properties such as media type and duration.

  • To sort items in List view, click the column heading by which you want to sort the items. (For example, click Media Duration to sort by length). If folders are expanded, items are sorted from the top level and down the Project Assets panel hierarchy. To reverse the sort order, click the column heading again.
  • To see more of the column headings in List view, drag the right side of the Project Assets panel to the right. Alternatively, drag the scroll bar at the bottom of the panel to the right.

Organize clips in folders

The Project Assets panel can include folders into which you can organize project contents. Folders can contain media files or subfolders. Consider using folders to organize media types, such as still images, audio files, and video clips.

  1. In the Project Assets panel, do any of the following:
    Note:

    To access the Project Assets panel, select Project Assets in the Expert view.

    • To add a folder, click the New Folder icon at the bottom of the Project Assets panel. In the list view, if you click New Folder multiple times in a row, each new folder is nested inside the previous new folder.

    • To move an item into a folder, drag it to the Folder icon. You can also move folders into other folders to nest them.

    • To display the contents of a folder, double-click the folder icon. Alternatively, click the triangle beside the Folder icon in List view to expand the folder.

    • To naviagte the parent folders click the Folder icon. You can click and hold this button to see a list of all the folders above the one currently listed. You can also jump to a folder by highlighting it and releasing the mouse button.

Rename a source file in a project

  • To rename a clip, select it, choose Clip > Rename, type the new name, and press Enter. (The change affects only references used in the project; the source file's name remains the same in the Project workspace and on your computer.)
  • To rename a source file, close Adobe Premiere Elements before you rename it. The next time you open the project, Adobe Premiere Elements asks you to locate the file.
Tip:

You can also rename a selected clip by clicking its name once to select the text, typing the new name, and pressing Enter.

Find an item in a project

  1. Right-click an item in the Expert view timeline, and select Reveal In Project.

    To find an item on the hard drive, right-click the clip, choose Properties, and note the path at the top of the Properties panel.

Locate missing files for a project

Premiere Elements doesn’t store original source files in a project—it references the name and location of each source file when you import it. If you later move, rename, or delete a source file from your computer, the Locate File dialog box opens when you next open the project.

Note:

After you create the final movie, you can delete source files if you do not plan to reuse them. If you plan to re-edit the movie in the future, archive the project with the Project Archiver before deleting source files.

In the Locate Media dialog box, choose one of the following options:

Locate Media

  • Select some files and click Offline. Only the selected files are made offline.
  • Offline All: All the files, excluding the already located files, are made offline.
  • Click Cancel: All the files listed in the Link Media dialog are made offline.
  • You can manually find and reconnect the media that Premiere Elements cannot automatically relink. To do so, click the Locate button in the Link Media dialog box.

Delete a clip

Because Adobe Premiere Elements doesn’t store media files in the project, deleting a clip from a project removes all instances from a movie. However, Adobe Premiere Elements does not delete the clip’s source file from your computer. To conserve disk space, delete the source file.

To delete a media file from the Project workspace, do one of the following:

  • Select the file in the panel and click the Delete icon.
  • Right-click/ctrl-click it in the Expert view timeline, and choose Ripple Delete. You can also delete by selecting the file and pressing the Delete key. The file has been deleted from the Elements Organizer, but it has not been deleted from your hard disk.

Interpret Footage

The Interpret footage lets you modify clip interpretation properties, including the frame rate and alpha channel in Premiere Elements, so your media will play as intended.

Interpret Footage

If the footage has a different frame rate than your sequence setting, you can make it match. Select one or multiple footage items in the Project  Assets panel and choose Clip > Interpret Footage. 

Interpret Footage

Select and adjust the following following settings from the Interpret Footage dialog:

Frame Rate

  • Use Frame Rate from file: Select this to use the default frame rate of the clip used.
  • Assume this frame rate: This allows you to manually change the playback speed of a video clip by altering its frame rate without modifying the clip's actual frames.
  • Remove 24p DV Pulldown: Transfers 24 fps footage to formats that run at 29.97 fps, such as NTSC video. Remove this to restore the original 24 fps footage.
  • Duration: Specifies the duration of the selected clip.

Pixel Aspect Ratio

  • Use Pixel Aspect Ratio From File: Uses the original aspect ratio saved with the still image.
  • Conform to: Let you choose from a list of standard aspect ratios.

Alpha Channel

  • Ignore Alpha Channel: Ignores the alpha channel included with the clip. 
  • Invert Alpha Channel: This reverses the light and dark areas of the alpha channel, which reverses the clip's transparent and opaque regions.
Note:

Many graphics include an alpha channel that reveals whatever is on a background video layer in the sequence. If you want to handle the alpha channel differently, you can do so without opening the source file in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator.

Project Conversion

Project Conversion in Premiere Elements allows you to open, update, or migrate a project file created in the last three versions to be compatible with Premiere Elements 2025. This process is essential when you upgrade your software or collaborate with someone using a different version, ensuring that the project can be accessed, edited, and rendered without issues.

  1. Opening an Older Project: When you try to open a project file created in an older version of Premiere Elements, the software will prompt you to convert the project.

  2. Conversion Prompt: A dialog box will appear asking if you want to convert the project to the current version. You’ll have the option to proceed with the conversion or cancel the process.

  3. Creating a Copy: Premiere Elements will make a copy of the project file for the new version, ensuring that your original project remains unchanged. The converted project will be saved with a new file name, adding a version number to avoid confusion.

Compatibility Considerations

Compatibility considerations are important when converting projects in Premiere Elements to ensure the project functions correctly across different versions, platforms, and environments. 

Caution:

Some unsupported effects and title references will be deleted in the converted project.

Note:

Audio added in the timeline of Premiere Elements 2024 and previous versions will be visible in the A5 or A6 audio layer after project conversion.

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