Guidelines to add image files – Adobe Premiere Elements 12 User Manual
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Stereo and mono files
5.1 surround sound files
mp3 and WMA files
CD files
Internet files
Photoshop Elements files
JPEG files
TIFF images
RGB mode
When adding audio files, consider the following:
You can add many of the stereo audio files that you can open in another audio player, such as Windows Media Player, to
your project. To create a stereo version of a mono file, the mono channel is copied to both the left and right channel in the new stereo track. In this
case, both channels contain the same information.
Importing clips containing 5.1 audio adds a 5.1-channel audio track to your project.
Formats such as mp3 and WMA are compressed using a method that reduces some of the original audio quality. To play
back compressed audio, Premiere Elements (like most video editing applications) must decompress and possibly alter the file’s sample rate.
Compressing can degrade the audio quality.
If you want to add audio from a CD, copy, or rip, the audio tracks to your hard drive using another application. Windows Media Player,
included with Windows XP, can perform this task. You can also use Adobe Audition to rip the CD at various quality settings and perform complex
audio-processing functions on the file. If you plan to air or distribute your movie, ensure that you own the copyright, or have licensed the copyright
to your CD audio.
You can download music from the Internet for your projects. WMA (Windows Media Audio) and AAC (QuickTime) files can have
pre-encoded settings that don’t allow you to play them in Premiere Elements.
Guidelines to add image files
By default, Premiere Elements scales images to fit the project frame size. You can override this behavior and instead add your files at the size at
which they were created. You can also set the default duration for all images that you add by changing the value in General Preferences.
You can add still images with frame sizes up to 4096 x 4096 pixels. Create files with frame size equal to or more than the frame size of your video.
Choosing the appropriate frame size ensures that you don’t enlarge the image in Premiere Elements. When you scale up an image, it often
becomes pixelated. Create it at a larger frame size than the project. For example, if you plan to scale an image 200%, create the image at double
the project frame size before you add it.
You can also add animations, which are saved as a sequence of numbered still-image files.
When adding still-image files, consider the following:
Premiere Elements works well with images and video templates you create in Photoshop Elements.
If you are having trouble importing JPEG files to Premiere Elements, open them in Photoshop Elements and resave them. Then try to
import them again.
You can add files from Photoshop 3.0 or later. However, Premiere Elements doesn’t support 16-bit TIFF images created in
Photoshop or other applications. Empty (transparent) areas of nonflattened Photoshop files appear transparent in Premiere Elements because the
transparency is stored as an alpha channel.
When you are editing or creating your still images, make sure that you do all of your work in RGB mode. For more information,
consult your product’s user guide about color management. RGB mode produces colors that are suitable for video.
Guidelines for adding an animation or still-image sequence
The frames in an animation are drawn as graphics and, therefore, are not scenes of live action, as in conventional digital video. Premiere Elements
can also add a sequence of numbered still-image files and automatically combine them into a single clip; each numbered file represents one
frame. Some applications, such as Adobe After Effects®, can generate a numbered sequence of still images. Images in a still-image sequence
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