Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 30)

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Projects
Last updated 8/12/2010
Duration Specifies the length of the finished movie. Match Music creates a movie to the length of the theme music.
Specify Duration lets you specify the exact length of time by dragging hours, minutes, and seconds. Use All Clips
ensures all the selected clips are used and bases the length of time on their duration.
Note: If you specify a duration that is longer than the theme music, the music will loop. If the duration is shorter than the
length of the theme music, the music ends with the last clip.
Sequence Specifies whether clips are placed in the Timeline according to the Time/Date stamp on the clip or
according to the theme’s editing rules.
Theme Content Specifies which aspects of the theme are included in the final movie. Select or deselect any of the
options. If some of your clips have effects already applied, you can choose to keep the applied effects, or remove them
and apply the theme’s effects instead.
Render Preview Enables you to preview the instant movie. Click the triangle beside the Render Preview option and
select Yes to preview.
Edit an InstantMovie
When you create an InstantMovie, Adobe Premiere Elements combines all the clips into a single clip. You can break
apart this combined clip if you want to edit or replace the individual clips. Once you break apart an InstantMovie clip,
you can use the Replace Clip command to quickly replace one clip with another without having to trim and edit the
new clip to fit, or change the effects or overlays applied to it.
InstantMovie syncs with the beats of the music, so changing a music clip may significantly change the final movie. In
addition, changing the song changes the duration of the movie to match the duration of the new song.
Break apart an InstantMovie
❖ Right-click the InstantMovie clip in the Timeline or Sceneline and choose Break Apart InstantMovie.
Replace a clip in an InstantMovie
1 In either the Organize workspace or the Project view, select the clip you want to use.
2 In the Timeline, right-click the clip you want to replace and choose Replace Clip From > Media or Project.
If the incoming clip is longer in duration, it is trimmed from the end to match the existing duration of the outgoing clip.
If the incoming clip is shorter in duration, a warning message appears, giving you the choice to cancel the replace
action or use black frames to fill the excess duration.
Viewing a project’s files
Project view overview
The Project view lets you preview source material for your projects. To access the Project view, select Window >
Available Media, or Organize > Projects.