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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
• fxClick on this button to add special effects like Chromakey, bluescreen, and green screen
Editing Bucket
• TransitionsClick on this button to differentiate one scene from another
Editing Bucket
• TitlesClick 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. P1140594 – Green Weather. www.flikr.com
• 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
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