Start Elements Organizer and Adobe Premiere Elements.
Last updated on
16 May 2021
- Elements Organizer User Guide
- Introduction
- Workspace and workflow
- Importing media files
- Viewing and fixing media files
- Marking places, faces, and events
- Managing catalogs, folders, and albums
- Creating albums and album categories
- Editing albums and album categories
- Create and edit catalogs in Elements Organizer
- Back up or restore catalogs | Elements Organizer 2018
- Tag your media
- Using Smart Tags
- Creating and editing Saved Searches
- Back up or restore catalogs | Elements Organizer 15 and earlier versions
- Troubleshooting catalog issues
- Searching photos and videos
- Creating photo projects
- Creating video projects
- Printing, sharing, and exporting
Learn the integrated workflows between Elements Organizer and Premiere Elements, such as editing imported videos, arranging your work area, and more.
About Elements Organizer and Adobe Premiere Elements
Here are a few ways you can share files between Elements Organizer and Adobe® Premiere® Elements:
Organize your photos, video files, and audio clips in Elements Organizer, and drag them onto the Adobe Premiere Elements Project panel.
Right-click/Control-click the media file, and select Edit With Premiere Elements.
Create a slideshow in Elements Organizer with captions, transitions, effects, music, narration, graphics, and titles. After creating the slideshow, bring the slideshow into Adobe Premiere Elements for further editing. Or, bring individual photos or video files into Adobe Premiere Elements, and create the slideshow there.
You can open Adobe Premiere Elements for editing video files using the Editor > Video Editor option in Elements Organizer.
Customize DVD menu templates in Elements Organizer, and use the templates in your Adobe Premiere Elements project. (DVD templates are PSD files stored in the Adobe Premiere Elements application folder.)
Create an Elements Organizer file with your video project’s settings, enhance it in Elements Organizer, and use it in Adobe Premiere Elements. You can also use the Create tab in Elements Organizer to create instant movies or to create video stories.
Arrange your work area
To share files between Elements Organizer and Adobe Premiere Elements, it’s useful to have both programs open and accessible on your computer monitor.
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If your screen is maximized, click the Restore button
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the upper-right corner of each application window.
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Position the application windows side by side or overlap them slightly.
However, trying to access the following options in the Share tab launches Adobe Premiere Elements:
Burn Video/DVD BluRay
Online Video Sharing
Mobile Phones
Supported media file types
Elements Organizer and Adobe Premiere Elements support many of the same file types, which makes the transfer of most files between the two programs easy and efficient. For example, you can catalog Photoshop (PSD) files in the Elements Organizer and then add them as still images to a project in Adobe Premiere Elements.
All file types that are supported in Photoshop Elements and Adobe Premiere Elements can be imported into Elements Organizer. The file support is irrespective of the application installed (Photoshop Elements and Adobe Premiere Elements).
The following table gives a list of the supported file types:
Images |
Video |
Audio |
|---|---|---|
raw |
3g2 |
aac |
arw |
avi |
ac3 |
bmp |
3gp |
aif |
cr2 |
dv |
aiff |
crw |
m2t |
m2a |
srf |
m2ts |
m4a |
dib |
m2v |
mp3 |
dng |
m4v |
wma (Windows only) |
erf |
mpeg |
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wav |
mod |
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gif |
mov |
|
sr2 |
mp4 |
|
tif |
mpg |
|
jpe |
mts |
|
jpeg |
swf |
|
jpg |
tod |
|
kdc |
vob |
|
mef |
|
|
mfw |
|
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mos |
|
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mrw |
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|
nef |
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|
orf |
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x3f |
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pdd |
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pef |
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vda |
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png |
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psd |
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pse |
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pxr |
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raf |
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| rle |
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Photoshop Elements Editor, Adobe Premiere Elements, and Elements Organizer do not recognize the following file types:
Elements Organizer |
Photoshop Elements Editor |
Adobe Premiere Elements |
|---|---|---|
TIFF with LZW compression (.tif) |
TIFF with LZW compression (.tif) |
MOD (.mod; JVC Everio) |
EPS (.eps) |
Illustrator (.ai) |
Illustrator (.ai) |
Windows Media (.wmv, .wma) - not supported on Mac OS |
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AIFF (.aiff) |
Adobe Illustrator (.ai) |
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Windows Media (.wmv, .wma) - not supported on Mac OS |
JPEG 2000 |
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AMR |
Filmstrip (FLM) |
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Wireless BMP (WBM, WBMP) |
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PCX |
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Targa (TGA, VDA, ICB, VST) |
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Photoshop RAW (RAW) |
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PICT File (PCT, PICT) |
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Scitex CT (SCT) |
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Photoshop EPS (EPS) |
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EPS TIFF Preview (EPS) |
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Generic EPS (AI3, AI4, AI5, AI6, AI7, AI8, PS, EPS, AI, EPSF, EPSP) |
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Mac OS only - IFF, Photoshop 2.0, Alias PIX, PICT Resource |
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Flash video (.flv) |
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| AMR |
Note:
Elements Organizer catalogs video AVI files properly and they play correctly. However, audio AVI files appear as broken video thumbnail icons. Also, Colors created in a file’s spot channels in Photoshop are not displayed when the file is imported into Elements Organizer.