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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 save, backup, and recover the last saved state of your open projects in Premiere Elements. 

You can now quickly save, back up, and recover your projects on your Premiere Elements projects after a crash.

Save a project

Saving a project saves your editing decisions, references to source files, and the most recent arrangement of panels. Protect your work by saving often.

  • To save the currently open project, choose File > Save.
  • To save a copy of a project, choose File > Save As, specify a location and filename, and select Save.
  • To save a copy of a project and continue working on the original project, choose File > Save A Copy. Specify a location and filename, and select Save.
Tip:

Set up a scratch disk to specify where Premiere Elements stores project‑related files, such as captured video and audio, and previews.

Back up a project with Auto Save

To revisit editing decisions or recover from a crash, enable the Auto Save option. This option automatically saves backup project files to the Adobe Premiere Elements Auto‑Save folder at a specified time interval. For example, you can set Premiere Elements to save a backup copy every 15 minutes.

Automatic saving serves as an alternative to the Undo command, depending on the project changes between each save. Because project files are smaller compared to source video files, archiving multiple versions of a project consumes less disk space.

  1. Choose Adobe Premiere Elements > Settings (macOS) and Preferences (Windows) > Auto Save.

  2. Do one of the following, and then click OK:

    • Select Automatically Save Projects, and enter the duration in minutes, after which Adobe Premiere Elements saves the project.

    • Type a number for the Maximum Project Versions to specify how many versions of each project file you want to save. For example, if you type 5, Premiere Elements saves five versions of each project you open.

    Note:

    Each time you open a project, save it at least once before the Auto Save option takes effect.

Open an Auto Save project

  1. Do either of the following:

    • Start Adobe Premiere Elements. In the Welcome screen, select Video Editor and then select Existing Project.

    • In Adobe Premiere Elements, choose File > Open Project.

  2. In the project folder, open the file in the Adobe Premiere Elements Auto‑Save folder. (If no files are available, the Auto Save preference is possibly turned off.)
    Note:

    When you start Premiere Elements after a crash, a message prompts whether you want to open the last saved version of your project.

Project Recovery

Restore the latest saved version of your Premiere Elements project by doing the following:

  1. After a crash, open Premiere Elements. You'll get a pop-up stating, "Premiere Elements quit unexpectedly while a project was open."

    The image shows pop-up saying, "Premiere Pro quit unexpectedly while 3 projects were open."
    Premiere Elements after a crash.

    Caution:

    The restoration pop-up won’t appear again if dismissed or the next time the application launches.

  2. Select Reopen to open all the projects in the state they were available before the application was closed unexpectedly. If you save the restored project with the current changes, it will be saved to the main file.

  3. If you wish to restore previous versions of your projects, you can revert to the last user-saved state by using File > Revert.

Tip:

Reduce the intervals between autosaves to ensure Premiere Elements frequently backs up your project and reduces project loss in case of a crash.

Recover projects manually

You can also manually recover your projects by doing the following:

  1. Navigate to your project folder.

  2. Inside the Auto-Save folder, you'll find a subfolder named Recovery Projects, which should have a file for each project. This is the save created when Premiere Pro crashes or is forced to quit.

  3. If you wish to restore to a previous version of an autosaved file, open the Auto-Save folder and select between the various time-stamped versions.

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