Viewing clip properties, See an overview of basic clip properties, View comprehensive file information – Adobe Premiere Elements 8 User Manual
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Last updated 8/12/2010
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Viewing clip properties
See an overview of basic clip properties
1 Choose Organize > Project, and either expand the panel or scroll horizontally to view its columns. (Sometimes
some columns are hidden.)
2 To view more details, right-click in Project view, and choose View
> Preview Area and then select the clip.
Note: To access the Project view, select Organize > Project.
More Help topics
Customize List view properties
View comprehensive file information
Adobe Premiere Elements includes tools that you can use to evaluate a file in any supported format stored inside or
outside a project. For example, you can determine whether a clip you exported has an appropriate data rate for Internet
distribution. Properties for video files can include file size, number of video and audio tracks, duration, average frame
rate, audio sample rate, video data rate, and compression settings, as well as information about dropped frames in
captured clips.
Use the Get Properties feature to check for dropped frames in a clip you just captured. Use the Data Rate Analysis
graphs to evaluate how well the output data rate matches the requirements of your delivery medium. The graphs chart
the render keyframe rate, the difference between compression keyframes and differenced frames (frames that exist
between keyframes), and data rate levels at each frame.
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Do one of the following:
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If the clip is in the Project view, right-click it and choose Properties.
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If the clip is in the Timeline, select it and choose File
> Get Properties For > Selection.
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If the clip is not in the project, choose File
> Get Properties For > File, locate and select the clip you want to analyze,
and then click Open.
The graphs include the following information:
Data Rate/Second Graph
The line represents the average data rate.
Sample Size Graph
The blue bars represent the sample size of each keyframed frame.
Differenced Frames Sample Size
If displayed, the red bars represent the sample size of the differenced frames between
compression keyframes. You only see these bars if you are analyzing the properties of a clip that was compressed using
a codec (compressor/decompressor) that supports differenced frames. Differenced frames store only data that has
changed between any two keyframes. DV footage does not contain differenced frames.
Note: The properties for VOB and MPEG files won’t include the data rate or sample size graphs.