Adobe Premiere Elements 10 Classroom in a Book

CONTENTS......Page 5
About Classroom in a Book......Page 12
Prerequisites......Page 13
Copying the Classroom in a Book Files......Page 14
Additional Resources......Page 15
1 THE WORLD OF DIGITAL VIDEO......Page 17
The Adobe Premiere Elements Workspace......Page 19
Working in the Organizer......Page 21
Working with Photoshop.com......Page 31
Review questions and answers......Page 34
2 GETTING READY TO EDIT......Page 35
Setting Up a New Project......Page 37
Diagnosing Settings-related Issues......Page 38
Working with Project Preferences......Page 42
Customizing the Workspace......Page 44
Review questions and answers......Page 46
3 VIDEO CAPTURE AND IMPORT......Page 47
Capturing Video with Premiere Elements......Page 49
Capture Interfaces......Page 50
Capturing Tape-based or Live Video......Page 51
Capturing with the Capture Panel......Page 56
Using the Video Importer......Page 58
Importing Content from Your Hard Drive......Page 64
Review questions and answers......Page 65
4 ORGANIZING YOUR CONTENT......Page 67
Viewing the Completed Movie Before You Start......Page 69
Working in the Project Workspace......Page 70
Finding Clips in Media View......Page 71
Tagging in the Organizer......Page 74
Review questions and answers......Page 90
5 EDITING VIDEO......Page 91
Viewing the Completed Movie Before You Start......Page 93
Working with the Monitor Panel......Page 94
Working with the My Project Panel in the Sceneline......Page 97
Using the Split Clip Tool in the Sceneline......Page 103
Working with the My Project Panel in the Timeline......Page 104
Editing in the Timeline......Page 107
Using the Split Clip Tool in the Timeline......Page 110
Working in Smart Trim Mode......Page 114
Review questions and answers......Page 118
6 WORKING WITH EFFECTS......Page 119
Using Effects......Page 121
Working with SmartFix......Page 125
Perfecting Your Clips......Page 126
Copying Effects from One Clip to Another......Page 134
Changing Playback Speed......Page 142
Creating a Pan and Zoom Effect......Page 143
Working with Keyframes......Page 146
Using Keyframes to Animate Effects......Page 147
Creating a Picture-in-Picture Overlay......Page 152
Compositing Two Clips Using Videomerge......Page 153
Changing Speed Using the Time Stretch Tool......Page 155
Working with Motion Tracking......Page 156
Working with Effect Masking......Page 158
Exploring on Your Own......Page 159
Review questions and answers......Page 160
7 CREATING TRANSITIONS......Page 161
Working with Transitions......Page 163
Exploring on Your Own......Page 179
Review questions and answers......Page 180
8 TITLES AND CREDITS......Page 181
Viewing the Completed Movie Before You Start......Page 183
Creating a Simple Title......Page 184
Modifying Text......Page 186
Superimposing a Title over Video Clips......Page 197
Creating a Rolling Credit......Page 200
Using Title Templates......Page 202
Exploring on Your Own......Page 203
Review questions and answers......Page 205
9 WORKING WITH SOUND......Page 207
Viewing the Completed Movie for the First Exercise......Page 209
Creating Background Music with SmartSound......Page 210
Adding Narration......Page 212
Adjusting Project Volume with SmartMix......Page 215
Adjusting the Volume of an Audio Track......Page 217
Exploring on Your Own......Page 227
Review questions and answers......Page 228
10 WORKING WITH MOVIE THEMES......Page 229
About Movie Themes......Page 231
Exploring on Your Own......Page 235
Review questions and answers......Page 236
11 CREATING MENUS......Page 237
Getting Started......Page 239
Understanding DVD, Blu-ray, and AVCHD Discs......Page 240
Manually Adding Scene Markers......Page 242
Creating an Auto-play Disc......Page 244
Automatically Generating Scene Markers......Page 245
Creating a Disc with Menus......Page 247
Modifying Scene Marker Buttons......Page 250
Working with Submenus......Page 253
Customizing Menus in Properties View......Page 256
Customizing Menus with Video, Still Images, and Audio......Page 258
Animating Buttons......Page 261
Changing Menu Button Text Properties......Page 264
Creating Web DVDs......Page 267
Burning DVD, Blu-ray, or AVCHD Discs......Page 269
Review questions and answers......Page 272
12 SHARING MOVIES......Page 273
Getting Started......Page 275
Viewing the Completed Movie for the First Exercise......Page 276
Uploading to YouTube......Page 277
Uploading to Photoshop.com......Page 279
Uploading to Facebook......Page 280
Sharing on Your Personal Computer......Page 282
Exporting to Mobile Phones and Players......Page 287
Exporting a Frame of Video as a Still Image......Page 288
Review questions and answers......Page 290
13 WORKING WITH PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS......Page 291
Getting Started......Page 293
Using the Edit Videos Command in Photoshop Elements......Page 296
Creating a New Photoshop File Optimized for Video......Page 299
Customizing a Title in Photoshop Elements......Page 300
Editing a Photoshop Image in Premiere Elements......Page 307
Review questions and answers......Page 310
A......Page 311
C......Page 312
E......Page 313
H......Page 314
M......Page 315
O......Page 316
P......Page 317
S......Page 318
T......Page 319
V......Page 320
Z......Page 321
Where are the Lesson Files?......Page 324