Description: With Total Training for Adobe Premiere Elements 7, you’ll learn the workflow necessary to import, edit and export your video projects. This training will give you a good understanding of all the cool intuitive tools and easy-to-use effects available in Premiere Elements 7 that will give your video a professional polish. Watch and learn just how easy it is to produce great looking video projects to share with the world with Total Training for Adobe Premiere Elements 7!

Highlights

• Learn how to import video from a variety of sources.
• Find out how to use InstantMovie to auto-create a project.
• See how to add both static and motion graphics to your video projects.
• Discover how to add a soundtrack to your movie.
• Learn about the aesthetics of editing and how to edit clips on the timeline.

Course Outline

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 7 (09 min)
1. Setting Up a New Project
2. Project Settings vs. Preferences
3. Touring the Interface

Chapter 2: CAPTURING, IMPORTING & MANAGING MEDIA (31 min)
1. Setting Up to Capture Media
2. Capturing from a DV Camera
3. Importing DVD Content via the Media Downloader
4. Getting Media from PC Files & Folders
5. Creating Albums
6. Tagging & Rating Media

Chapter 3: QUICK START EDITING (17 min)
1. Creating a New InstantMovie
2. Choosing & Customizing a Theme
3. Building Your InstantMovie

Chapter 4: EDITING ESSENTIALS (50 min)
1. Brief History & Theory of Editing
2. Importing Media
3. Assembling a Movie in the Sceneline
4. Introducing the Timeline
5. Editing Clips in the Timeline
6. Using Still Images as Clips
7. Editing a Still Image in Photoshop(R) Elements

Chapter 5: ADDING EFFECTS & TRANSITIONS (27 min)
1. Introducing Effects & Transitions
2. Adding Transitions between Clips
3. Adding Effects to Clips
4. Editing Transitions & Effects
5. Time Stretching & Rendering Clips

Chapter 6: WORKING WITH AUDIO (28 min)
1. Adding a Background Music Track
2. Using SmartSound(R) Quicktracks(R)
3. Recording a Narration
4. Adjusting Audio in the Timeline

Chapter 7: CREATING TITLES (46 min)
1. Exploring Types of Titles
2. Adding Markers in the Timeline
3. Creating & Formatting a Still Title
4. Adjusting Color Properties & Saving a Style
5. Creating a Crawling Title
6. Creating a Rolling Title Using a Title Template
7. Adding More Tracks to the Timeline
8. Using an Animated Graphic in a Title Design

Chapter 8: CREATING A SLIDESHOW (16 min)
1. Adding Images to the Sceneline
2. Adding Transitions & Audio to a Slideshow
3. Automating a Slideshow & Setting a Default Transition

Chapter 9: DEPLOYING YOUR VIDEO (39 min)
1. Understanding Different Formats for Export
2. Sharing Your Videos Online
3. Creating a Video to Email
4. Creating a Video for Mobile Devices
5. Creating a Video for DVD & Blu-ray

Chapter 10: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES (26 min)
1. Animating the Motion Property
2. Editing to the Beat
3. Creating a Picture-in-Picture Effect
4. Creating a Freeze Frame & Exporting a Still
5. Credits