Adobe Premiere Elements 11 Part B

This is the 2nd installment in my blog post series on Adobe Premiere Elements 11 which is based on what I learn on the Infinite Skills video training course of the same name. One thing worth bearing in mind is if you capture from tape it is in real time so a tape will typically take 60 minutes. Make sure your batteries are topped up as there is nothing more infuriating than them going flat mid capture. You will normally select add media/ then select the type of capture device. Sometimes a capture type won’t match up to the device you just have to experiment to get it right. This is especially true on older devices. It should display the model of your capture device but remember it doesn’t support every device. Sometimes you will have to use the proprietary software that came with your device to capture it or capture from a media card and then copy the folder into Premiere Elements. When you capture a piece of film which you will also have to click capture to capture it you can also play, rewind and fast forward with in the captured film. If the footage goes missing through re labelling right click the film’s icon and choose replace footage, and select the film name from a list. In post production found in the clip monitor the bars and tone is the same as a test signal and can be found by right clicking the footage then selecting it from the menu and goes at the beginning of the footage, it allows you to adjust the picture and volume. The colour matte which can be found in the same way fills in any unused space so you don’t mistakenly think the equipment is faulty. It is just a blank colour screen. To open the clip monitor right click the footage in project assets and choose open clip monitor from the menu. With in this program you can also play and rewind the clip etc. The safe margins command in clip monitor found in the same way as colour matte protects the screen with text going with in the inner border and action being preserved so you can see what is going on with in the outer border. Set in and set out edit where footage starts and stops with in clip monitor. You can edit it there and then copy it into the timeline. You can have upto 99 audio tracks with in the timeline in expert mode and if you were making an action feature film with lots of special effects it is quite feasible you would need something like that. You drag and drop the edges of the film with in the timeline to edit it and click the x icon and select the side you want cut to edit the film. The film will tend to jump to the left to fill the unused space when you do this. If you put the video on separate tracks it will snap to each other as you go from one piece of film and edit it to another. An exception to this is there is a piece of audio soundtrack on the timeline because you need to edit this the film will remain static on the timeline as you edit it. I will try and do another post in this series tonight.