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Creating specialty clips

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  1. Adobe Premiere Elements User Guide
  2. Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements
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    2. System requirements | Adobe Premiere Elements
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  5. 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. Sharing files between Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop Elements
    7. Creating specialty clips
    8. Work with aspect ratios and field options
  6. Arranging clips
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    8. Adjusting Brightness, Contrast, and Color - Guided Edit
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    13. Trim clips
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  8. Applying transitions
    1. Applying transitions to clips
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    4. Adding Transitions between video clips - Guided Edit
    5. Create special transitions
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  9. Special effects basics
    1. Effects reference
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    3. Create a black and white video with a color pop - Guided Edit
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    11. Best practices to create a time-lapse video
  10. 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
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    16. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    17. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    18. Animated Sky - Guided edit
    19. Select object
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    21. Double exposure- Guided Edit
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    7. Adding Narration to your movie - Guided Edit
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  12. Movie titles
    1. Creating titles
    2. Adding shapes and images to titles
    3. Adding color and shadows to titles
    4. Editing and formatting text
    5. Motion Titles
    6. Exporting and importing titles
    7. Arranging objects in titles
    8. Designing titles for TV
    9. Applying styles to text and graphics
    10. Adding a video in the title
  13. Disc menus
    1. Creating disc menus
    2. Working with menu markers
    3. Types of discs and menu options
    4. Previewing menus
  14. Sharing and exporting your movies
    1. Export and share your videos
    2. Sharing for PC playback
    3. Compression and data-rate basics
    4. Common settings for sharing

Guidelines for adding files

5.1 audio import

You generate Specialty clips by using panel options in the Project Assets panel. They reside in the Project Assets panel along with your added clips.

You can create universal counting leaders, color bars, a 1-kHz tone, black video, and colored backgrounds for your project. Use Specialty clips for calibration of your video or simply as footage.

Add color bars and a 1‑kHz tone

You use the color bars and 1-kHz tone clips in tandem at the beginning of a video. Color bars are multicolored vertical bars at the beginning of broadcast videos that help broadcasters calibrate the color for a video.

The 1‑kHz tone is a short tone (1-kHz frequency) that broadcasters use to adjust audio levels. Broadcasters set it at a specific level for reference, and then decrease or increase their audio levels to match this frequency. Because some audio workflows are calibrated at a specific tone level, you can customize the tone level to match your audio workflow.

  1. Click Project Assets.

  2. In the Project Assets panel, click New Item from the panel options and choose Bars And Tone.

A Bars And Tone clip is placed in the Project Assets panel and in the Expert view timeline.

Create and add a black video clip

You add black video clips to separate multiple movies or to create pauses in a movie. You can also use a black video clip for a title.

  1. Click Project Assets.
  2. In the Project Assets panel, click New Item from the panel options and choose Black Video.

Create a colored matte for a background

You can create a clip consisting of a full‑frame matte of solid color, which you can use as a solid background for titles or animated clips.

Note:

Brightly colored mattes can serve as temporary backgrounds to help you see transparency more clearly while you adjust a key effect.

  1. Click Project Assets.
  2. In the Project Assets panel, click New Item from the panel options and choose Color Matte.
  3. Choose a color in the Adobe Color Picker dialog box, and click OK.

A color matte clip is placed into both the Project Assets panel and the Expert view timeline.

Change the tone level of clips

  1. Select a clip using one of the following methods:

    • To set the level for all new clip instances, click New Item from the panel options in the Project Assets panel. Then, select the Bars And Tone option.

    • To set the level for only one clip instance, select the clip in the Expert view timeline.

  2. Choose Clip > Audio Options > Audio Gain.
  3. In the Clip Gain dialog box, do one of the following, and click OK:

    • Drag the value control left to decrease, or right to increase, volume.

    • Highlight the value control and type a number to increase or decrease volume. Positive numbers increase it. Negative numbers decrease it.

    • The Normalize option adjusts the peak amplitude in the selected clips to the user-specified value. For example, this option adjusts the gain of a clip with a peak amplitude of -6 dB to +6 dB. Ensure that Normalize All Peaks To is set to 0.0 dB.

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