Making Movies with Adobe Premier Elements 4 Matt Monjan

First we need to make a choice New Project Edit an Existing Project Capture Video from a Camera

Creating a New Project Select a place to save your work - C: yada/ yada/yada Get some media to play with –DVD, Digital Camera, Mobile Phone, Camcorder, Card Reader –DV Camcorder, HDV Camcorder, Webcam –Files and Folders –Internet –Stop Motion

Now that we have media, let’s look at the setup buckets Edit – Where we “make” the movie Create Menus – Great for DVDs Share – how other people will see your work (disk, online, pc, phone, tape, etc) Note that we are now under the Project tab – if we want to add more media we have to click on the Get Media tab

Editing Bucket Media Click on this button to see & work w/the content that have pulled from various sources during your project Media we’re using so far

Editing Bucket Themes You can choose to add different themes to incorporate into your movie (talk show…)

Editing Bucket fx Click on this button to add special effects like Chromakey, bluescreen, and green screen

Editing Bucket Transitions Click on this button to differentiate one scene from another

Editing Bucket Titles Click on this button to add a titles and credits to your work

Putting the pieces together Change the Sceneline view to Timeline view by clicking on the Timeline button Drag your media over to a Video Track (Video 1, Video 2, etc.) At this point you can manipulate the size of the video by clicking on it – once you see the white box you can resize and move it around You can repeat as many times as you would like --Applications-- Create Background for News story, or have many pieces of media going at same time

A Little About Chroma Key Chroma Keying or bluescreening is very easy to do and is very common. In fact, every time you watch the weather, a bluescreen or greenscreen is used in the background Photo Credit: Glass Window. P – Green Weather.

Film your subject in front of a solid color –any color will do as long as it is solid –make sure that subject (s) are not wearing that color! Import that video into Adobe Premier Elements 4 Drag video that you don’t want Chroma Keyed onto Video Line 1 Drag video that you do want Chrom Keyed onto Video Line 2 Click on Effects button Type Chroma into search box Drag Chroma Key icon onto video line that you want keyed Click on the Edit Effects button Chroma Key with Adobe Premier Elements 4

Click on the little eye dropper icon and then click on the image that you want keyed You can fine tune your effect with the Chroma Key Slider Bars Pretty Cool Right?

Adding Narration and Mixing Sound Simple! Click on the Add Narration Button Click on Red Dot and record –For best results use headphones and uncheck mute. To reduce feedback while recording lower input level volume slider Click on Audio Mixer button to overlay sounds and music

Removing sound Find the correct audio track Right-click on the piece that you want to delete Select “Unlink Audio and Video” Select “Delete Audio” Note the right-click quick-trick is to host to many other options

Saving your work Click on the Share tab Click on your Share option –Burn DVD –Online –Personal Computer –Mobile Phone –Tape

Choose your file format Adobe Flash – typically for Web pages MPEG – typically for PC or burning DV AVI for further editing Title your Work and choose to save it somewhere Click on the Save button