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