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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. Preferences
    5. Tools
    6. Keyboard shortcuts
    7. Audio View
    8. Undoing changes
    9. Customizing shortcuts
    10. 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
  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. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. Movie titles
    1. Creating titles
    2. Adding shapes and images to titles
    3. Adding color and shadows to titles
    4. Editing and formatting text
    5. Motion Titles
    6. Exporting and importing titles
    7. Arranging objects in titles
    8. Designing titles for TV
    9. Applying styles to text and graphics
    10. Adding a video in the title
  13. Disc menus
    1. Creating disc menus
    2. Working with menu markers
    3. Types of discs and menu options
    4. Previewing menus
  14. Sharing and exporting your movies
    1. Export and share your videos
    2. Sharing for PC playback
    3. Compression and data-rate basics
    4. Common settings for sharing

Previewing available transitions

You can access available transitions in the Transitions panel (click Transitions on the Action bar).

Quick view: All the available transitions appear as thumbnails in the Transitions panel. The Quick view contains a subset of the transitions available in the Expert view.

Expert view: The transitions are organized into categories. You can narrow a search for transitions by choosing a transition type, such as Dissolve, from the Category menu. You can also search for a transition by typing its name in the search box. The Expert view has more transitions compared to the Quick view.

Video transitions have animated thumbnail previews that show how they affect clips. Select a transition to set its thumbnail in motion. You can preview an animated thumbnail transition in the Transition panel without having to apply it to a clip.

Transitions panel

Note:

Adobe Premiere Elements includes two audio transitions in the Crossfade category: Constant Power and Constant Gain. Though both provide fades, they differ slightly. Constant Power creates a smoother-sounding fade, while Constant Gain, though mathematically linear, often sounds abrupt.

  1. In the Quick view or the Expert view, click Transitions on the Action bar. The Transitions panel appears.

  2. Click the thumbnail for any video transition to set it in motion.

Specify a default transition

The default transition is used in slide shows you create and files you import from Adobe® Photoshop® Elements. It is also used in motion backgrounds you create for DVD menus. The default transitions are Cross Dissolve for video or still images and Constant Power for audio. However, you can change these defaults.

  1. In the Quick view or the Expert view, click Transitions on the Action bar. The Transitions panel appears.
  2. Right-click/ctrl-click the transition you want to be the default and choose Set Selected As Default Transition. (A gray outline marks the icon of the default transition.)

Types of Transition

3D Motion: A 3D motion transition is a fancy way to switch scenes in a video. Instead of a jump cut, it uses 3D effects or camera moves to create a smoother bridge between clips.

Dissolve: Progressively fading out the outgoing clip while simultaneously fading in the incoming clip.

Iris: Creates a circular wipe between two clips.

Page Peel: Simulates the effect of turning a page in a book or magazine to reveal the following clip.

Slide: Simulates one clip sliding horizontally or vertically to reveal the following.

Wipe: Reveals the incoming clip by "wiping away" the outgoing clip in a specific direction.

Zoom: The visual effect connects two clips by zooming in on the other clip during the transition.

Apply transitions in the Quick view timeline

In the Quick view timeline, drop zones (indicated by vertical green lines) appear the moment you drag a transition. The drop zones let you easily apply transitions between clips.

Apply a double-sided transition in the Quick view timeline

  1. In the Quick view, click Transitions on the Action bar. The Transitions panel is displayed.

  2. Drag a transition from the Transitions panel to the drop zone between two clips in the Quick view timeline. An icon of the transition appears on the right and left bottom corners of the clip to indicate it has been applied. In addition, the Transition contextual control is displayed.

  3. (Optional) Modify the properties of the clip, for example duration. Click More to further customize the transition and preview your changes.

Apply a single-sided transition in the Quick view timeline

  1. In the Quick view, click Transitions on the Action bar. The Transitions panel is displayed.

  2. From the Transitions panel, select the transition you want to apply.
  3. Do one of the following:

    • If any one side of the clip has nothing adjacent to it, drag the transition to the transition rectangle on that side of the clip.

    • If the clip is adjacent to another clip, drag the transition to the desired edge of the clip. In the Transitions contextual control set Alignment as Left Clip, Between Clips, or Right Clip.

Apply transitions in the Expert view timeline

When applying transitions to the Expert view timeline, you can choose from alignment options, Left Clip, Between Clips, or Right Clip.

Apply a double-sided transition in the Expert view timeline

To apply a transition between two clips in the Expert view timeline the clips must be on the same track, with no space between them.

If a double‑sided transition must use repeated frames (rather than trimmed frames), the transition icon contains additional diagonal lines. The lines span the area where it has used the repeated frames.

  1. In the Expert view, click Transitions on the Action bar. The Transitions panel appears.
  2. From the Transitions panel select the category containing the transition you want to apply.
  3. Drag the transition from the Transitions panel to the cut between two clips in the Expert view timeline, and release the mouse button when one of the following alignment icons appears:

    Start At Cut transitionStart At Cut

    Aligns the beginning of the transition to the beginning of the second clip.

    Center At Cut transitionCenter At Cut

    Centers the transition over the cut.

    End At Cut transitionEnd At Cut

    Aligns the end of the transition to the end of the first clip.

    Note:

    Pressing Ctrl while dragging a transition lets you select Start At Cut, Center At Cut, or End At Cut by slowly dragging the transition left and right over the cut.

Apply a single-sided transition in the Expert view timeline

When you create a single‑sided transition, whatever is below the transition in the Expert view timeline appears in the transparent portion of the transition. For example, If you want the clip to transition to black, it must be on Track 1 or have no clips beneath it. If the clip is on a track above another clip, the clip on the lower track appears in the transition, so the transition will appear to be double‑sided.

  1. In the Expert view, click Transitions on the Action bar. The Transitions panel appears.
  2. From the Transitions panel select the category containing the transition you want to apply.
  3. Do one of the following:

    • If the clip has no adjacent clip to one side of it, drag the transition from the Transitions panel to the edge of the clip.

    • If the clip is adjacent to another clip, Ctrl‑drag the transition to the edge of the desired clip.

Apply a default transition in the Expert view timeline

  1. Do one of the following:

    • To select non-consecutive clips, Shift-click each clip.

    • To select consecutive clips, click in the Project Assets panel, and drag a marquee around the selected clips.

    • To select all the clips, press Ctrl-A.

  2. Right-click/ctrl-click the selected clips, and select Apply Default Transition Along CTI.

  3. Select one of the following options:

    • Audio

    • Video

The transition is applied to all the selected clips.

To apply default transitions between multiple contiguous clips on the same track:

  1. Ctrl-click the clips to which you want to add the default transition.

  2. Right-click/ctrl-click one of the selected clips.

  3. Select Apply Default Transition.

The transition is applied at the cut between each of the contiguous clips.

Replace a transition

You can replace a transition by simply dropping a new transition onto the old one in the Quick view or the Expert view timeline. When you replace a transition, Premiere Elements maintains the alignment and duration of the original transition; however, it discards the settings of the original transition and instead uses the default settings of the new transition.

  1. In the Quick view/Expert view, click Transitions on the Action bar. The Transitions panel appears.
  2. From the Transitions panel, select the transition you will use to replace the previous one.
  3. Drag the transition onto the transition in the Expert view timeline or Quick view timeline.

Preview applied transitions

You can preview transitions you’ve applied from either the Transitions contextual control or the Monitor panel. The Transitions contextual control provides a preview area where you can display thumbnails of the actual clips or the default thumbnails (the letters A and B). Adjust your transitions in the Transitions contextual control and preview the transitions as you make adjustments.

Note:

If you have a digital camcorder, you probably can connect it to both your computer and TV to see real‑time previews on the TV monitor. This gives you a better sense of how the transition will look in the finished movie.

Preview transitions in the Monitor panel

  1. In the Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline, move the current-time indicator to the left of the transition, and then click the Play button in the Monitor panel.
    Note:

    To preview a particular frame of the transition in the Monitor panel, drag the current‑time indicator to the desired frame.

View transitions in the Quick view timeline and Expert view timeline

In the Quick view timeline, a transition appears as a rectangle on the clips. In the Expert view timeline, a transition appears just above the cut between two clips, or just above the In or Out point of a single clip.

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