Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 34)

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Projects
Last updated 8/12/2010
Organize clips with color labels
You can assign colored labels to clips to help organize and track clips. For example, you can use different colors to
represent different people in the clips, or different types of clips (audio, still, video, and so on).
• To assign a color label to a clip, select the clip in Project view or the Timeline. Choose Edit > Label, and choose a
color.
Note: To access the Project view, select Organize > Projects.
• To select all clips that use the same label, select any clip that uses the label, and choose Edit > Label > Select Label
Group.
• To edit label names or colors, choose Edit > Preferences > Label Colors, and edit the names or click a color swatch
to change a color.
• To set default labels for a media type, choose Edit > Preferences > Label Defaults, and select a new label color for
the media type.
Note: Label defaults affect clips you add to the Project view after you change the defaults. The command doesn’t change
label colors for clips already in the Tasks panel. To change label colors, choose Edit > Preferences > Label Colors.
Play back a clip in Project view
1 To access the Project view, select Organize > Projects.
2 If the Preview Area is not visible, right-click in the Project view, and choose View > Preview Area.
3 Select a clip in Project view.
4 Press the Play button in the preview area. The Play button becomes a Stop button. (Playing the clip in the Tasks
panel doesn’t affect clips in the Monitor panel, Timeline, or Sceneline.)
Rename a source file in a project
• To rename a clip, select it, choose Clip > Rename, type the new name, and press Enter. (The change affects only
references used in the project; the name of the original source file in the Organize workspace and in Windows
remains the same.)
• To rename an original source file, close Adobe Premiere Elements, and rename the file in Windows. The next time
you open the project, Adobe Premiere Elements asks you to locate the file.
You can also rename a selected clip by clicking its name once to select the text, typing the new name, and pressing
Enter.
Find an item in a project
1 Choose Edit > Find.
2 Specify options according to the contents of any column in List view.
3 Click Find.
To find an item on the hard drive, select the clip, choose File > Get Properties For, and note the path at the top of the
Properties panel.