Adobe Premiere Elements 11 Part F

This is the last installment in my blog post series on Adobe Premiere Elements 11 based on what I learn on the video training course by Infinite Skills on this software. The simplest way to have text credits in your movie isto click text/ new text/ default text. You might have to resize the text file in the timeline and will have to format the text in the dialog box. There are many text presets including rolling text like what they have in tv programmes. You can click animation / animation preset and animate the text that way. The titles and text has lots of text presets and they often have areas colored black which are alpha masks and take on the background you provide. Tools / smart trim is a tool that analyzes your video and can even tell you if it is too boring by using an algorithm that analyzes things like faces. It also tells you things like if the exposure is wrong. It shades in the parts on the timeline that can be improved and you merely hover over them with the mouse for the suggestions and decide whether to accept them or not. There are keep and select all options. Simply click on the footage and a menu comes up. Instant movie gives the movie a genre theme via the various presets. Video merge merges 2 video but usually requires you either mask part of the image and adjust the tolerance or use a single color chroma screen in the part you wish it applied to. If you select publish and share/ make dvd/ or tools/ dvd menu you must use the menu marker at the point you want the dvd menu and place stop markers at the end of each piece of footage so it knows to return to the menu. In addition you want a fade preset at the end of each piece of footage. There is an option to have motion in the menu. You also want a scene marker at the beginning of each piece of footage. There are various other options like web dvd which converts the film to HTML and you can have it on your website complete with menu. You can also upload the video to sites like YouTube & Vimeo. The next blog series will be on Microsoft Sharepoint which I will probably start tomorrow.