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  1. Get to know Premiere Elements
  2. Adobe Premiere Elements User Guide
  3. Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements
    1. What's new in Premiere Elements
    2. System requirements | Adobe Premiere Elements
    3. Workspace basics
    4. Guided mode
    5. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
    6. GPU accelerated rendering
  4. Workspace and workflow
    1. Get to know the Home screen
    2. View and share auto-created collages, slideshows, and more
    3. Workspace basics
    4. Source Monitor and Program Monitor
    5. Preferences
    6. Tools
    7. Keyboard shortcuts
    8. Audio View
    9. Undoing changes
    10. Customizing shortcuts
    11. Working with scratch disks
  5. Working with projects
    1. Creating a project
    2. Adjust project settings and presets
    3. Save and back up projects
    4. Previewing movies
    5. Creating video collage
    6. Creating Highlight Reel
    7. Create a video story
    8. Creating Instant Movies
    9. Viewing clip properties
    10. Viewing a project's files
    11. Archiving projects
    12. GPU accelerated rendering
  6. 360° and VR Video Editing
  7. Importing and adding media
    1. Add media
    2. Guidelines for adding files
    3. Set duration for imported still images
    4. 5.1 audio import
    5. Working with offline files
    6. Stock Media
    7. Sharing files between Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop Elements
    8. Creating specialty clips
    9. Work with aspect ratios and field options
  8. Arranging clips
    1. Arrange clips in the Expert view timeline
    2. Group, link, and disable clips
    3. Arranging clips in the Quick view timeline
    4. Working with clip and timeline markers
    5. Sequence settings
  9. Editing clips
    1. Reduce noise
    2. Select object
    3. Candid Moments
    4. Color Match
    5. Color Fonts and Emojis
    6. Smart Trim
    7. Freehand Crop
    8. Delete All Gaps
    9. Change clip speed and duration
    10. Split clips
    11. Freeze and hold frames
    12. Adjusting Brightness, Contrast, and Color - Guided Edit
    13. Stabilize video footage with Shake Stabilizer
    14. Replace footage
    15. Working with source clips
    16. Trimming Unwanted Frames - Guided Edit
    17. Trim clips
    18. Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
    19. Artistic effects
  10. Color Correction and Grading
    1. Color Correction and Grading (LUTs)
    2. Color Correction Panel
    3. Color Correction Settings
  11. Applying transitions
    1. Applying transitions to clips
    2. Transition basics
    3. Adjusting transitions
    4. Adding Transitions between video clips - Guided Edit
    5. Create special transitions
    6. Create a Luma Fade Transition effect - Guided Edit
  12. Special effects basics
    1. Effects reference
    2. Applying and removing effects
    3. Create a black and white video with a color pop - Guided Edit
    4. Time remapping - Guided edit
    5. Effects basics
    6. Working with effect presets
    7. Finding and organizing effects
    8. Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
    9. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    10. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    11. Best practices to create a time-lapse video
  13. Applying special effects
    1. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
    2. Transparency and superimposing
    3. Reposition, scale, or rotate clips with the Motion effect
    4. Apply an Effects Mask to your video
    5. Adjust temperature and tint
    6. Create a Glass Pane effect - Guided Edit
    7. Create a picture-in-picture overlay
    8. Applying effects using Adjustment layers
    9. Adding Title to your movie
    10. Removing haze
    11. Creating a Picture in Picture - Guided Edit
    12. Create a Vignetting effect
    13. Add a Split Tone Effect
    14. Add FilmLooks effects
    15. Add an HSL Tuner effect
    16. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    17. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    18. Animated Sky - Guided edit
    19. Select object
    20. Animated Mattes - Guided Edit
    21. Double exposure- Guided Edit
  14. Special audio effects
    1. Mix audio and adjust volume with Adobe Premiere Elements
    2. Audio effects
    3. Adding sound effects to a video
    4. Adding music to video clips
    5. Create narrations
    6. Using soundtracks
    7. Music Remix
    8. Adding Narration to your movie - Guided Edit
    9. Adding Scores to your movie - Guided edit
  15. Movie titles
    1. Creating titles
    2. Adding shapes and images to titles
    3. Adding color and shadows to titles
    4. Apply Gradients
    5. Create Titles and MOGRTs
    6. Add responsive design
    7. Editing and formatting text
    8. Text Styles and Style Browser
    9. Align and transform objects
    10. Motion Titles
    11. Appearance of text and shapes
    12. Exporting and importing titles
    13. Arranging objects in titles
    14. Designing titles for TV
    15. Applying styles to text and graphics
    16. Adding a video in the title
  16. Disc menus
    1. Creating disc menus
    2. Working with menu markers
    3. Types of discs and menu options
    4. Previewing menus
  17. Sharing and exporting your movies
    1. Export and share your videos
    2. Export settings
    3. Sharing for PC playback
    4. Compression and data-rate basics
    5. Common settings for sharing

About offline files

An offline file is a placeholder for a source file that Premiere Elements cannot currently find on your hard drive. Offline files remember information about the missing source files they represent. If an offline file appears in the Quick view/Expert view timeline, a “Media Offline” message appears in the monitor and in the Quick view/Expert view timeline.

Edit an offline file

  1. In the Expert view, click Project Assets.
  2. In the Project Assets panel, double‑click the offline file. Where Is The File [name of the file] dialog box appears. Locate the source file, select the file, and click Select.
  3. Right-click/Ctrl-click the file and select Edit Original to edit the file.

Replace an offline file with a file on your computer

  1. In the Expert view, click Project Assets.
  2. In the Project Assets panel, select one or more offline files.
  3. Choose Edit > Locate Media.
  4. Locate and select the actual source file, and click Select.
    Note

    If you selected more than one offline file, the Attach Which Media dialog box appears in turn for each file you selected. Pay attention to the offline filename in the title bar of the dialog box so that you relink the correct source file to each offline file.

Relinking and Locating Offline Files:

When an imported clip is moved, renamed, or deleted outside Premiere Elements, the clip becomes an offline clip. Offline clips are represented by the 'Offline Item' icon in the project panel, and “Media Offline” appears in the timeline sequence, Program Monitor, and elsewhere as follows:

Premiere Elements helps you locate and relink offline media by using the Locate Media and File dialog boxes. When you open a project containing offline media, the Locate Media workflow lets you locate and relink the offline media, bringing them back online for use in your project.

Locating and linking offline files

When you open a project with missing media files, the Locate Media dialog box gives you visibility into files that have broken links and helps you locate and link your files quickly.

The Locate Media dialog box displays the clip name used in the project, as well as the linked filename of the media. The Locate Media dialog box also displays the complete path of folders that stored the offline media.

For example, when you import a clip into a project for the first time, the clip uses the media filename by default. Later, even if you rename the clip, Premiere Elements can help you locate the clip even if the media file is offline. Depending on how you want to handle the offline files, you can specify the required search criteria and Match File properties.

Relocate Multiple Offline Files

If you don't want to link all of your media, do one of the following:

  • Select some files and click Offline. Only the selected files are made offline.
  • Click Offline All. All the files excluding the files that have already been located are made offline.
  • Click Cancel. All the files listed in the Locate Media dialog are made offline.

At any point later, you can open the Locate Media dialog box and relink the offline clips in your project by doing one of the following:

  • Select the offline clip in the Timeline, and select Clip > Locate Media.
  • Right-click or Ctrl-click the clip in the Timeline, and select Locate Media from the context menu.

Manually locate and relink offline media

You can manually find and reconnect the media that Premiere Elements is unable to automatically relink. To do so, in the Locate Media dialog box, click the Locate button.

The Locate File dialog opens with the closest existing directory showing up to three levels. If no exact match is found, the directory is displayed considering where the file should have been, or the same directory location as the previous session.

The Locate File dialog displays the file directory listing using the Media Browser user interface by default.

Note

If you want to locate the files using your computer's file browser, deselect Use Media Browser To Locate Files in the Link Media dialog box.

You can manually search for a file within the Locate File dialog by clicking Search. Looking at the Last Path can help you locate the exact missing file easily and quickly.

Note

You can edit the Path field. If necessary, you can copy the full path or a segment of the path from the Last Path string, and paste it into the Path field. This option is especially useful to quickly help locate the path to the missing file.

To help you narrow down your search results, the Locate File dialog also provides you with advanced filter options, like displaying specific file types and selecting Display Only Exact name Matches. In addition, you can switch from a list view to a thumbnail view for a visual confirmation of a specific media file.

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