Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 39)

34 USING ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 8 EDITOR
Projects
Last updated 8/12/2010
3 In the Effects view, click Edit Effects at the bottom of the panel, expand the effect, and note the values.
Project settings and presets
About project settings and presets
Project settings determine the video and audio format of a project, such as whether your footage is DV, HDV,
AVCHD, or from a hard disk or flash memory camcorder, or whether it is standard or widescreen video. It also
specifies the frame rate, aspect ratio, audio sample rate, upper or lower field first, and bit depth for your project.
When you start a new project, Adobe Premiere Elements applies a project preset to it. A project preset is a collection
of preconfigured project settings. In most cases, you can use the default project preset, which is set for 4:3 DV footage
for the television standard you specified when you installed Adobe Premiere Elements. NTSC (National Television
Standards Committee) is the television standard for the Americas, the Caribbean, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan;
PAL (Phase Alternating Line) is the standard format for Europe, Russia, Africa, the Middle East, India, Australia, New
Zealand, the South Pacific, China, and other parts of Asia.
You can’t change the project preset after starting a project, so verify the format of your source footage before selecting
a project preset. Depending on your source footage, you may need to change the preset or create a new one. If your
footage is widescreen, for example, you need to select a Widescreen preset before you start your project; if it’s HDV,
choose one of the HDV presets. If the project preset does not match the source files, you may get unexpected or
undesirable results.
If you need to specify lower quality settings for output (such as streaming web video), don’t change your project
settings—change your export settings instead.
Create or change project presets
The default project presets in Adobe Premiere Elements are appropriate for most types of source media, including
video from DV camcorders, cameras, DVD discs, and mobile phones. If your source footage requires a custom project
preset, you can create one. The procedure for creating a preset differs if you’re changing settings for an open project
versus establishing settings for a new project. Presets you create can be applied to new projects, and if you want to back
up or distribute preset files, you can find them in the Settings subfolder of the Adobe Premiere Elements folder on your
hard disk.
Select a project preset
By default, Adobe Premiere Elements uses a DV preset for the television standard you specify when you install the
program. You will need to select a new preset to create new projects in a different format (such as HDV), television
standard (such as PAL), or frame aspect ratio (such as widescreen).
The preset you select becomes the default, so it’s used for all new projects you create, until you select another preset.
If you want to use a preset temporarily, be sure to change it when you’ve finished using it.
1 Start Adobe Premiere Elements.
2 In the Welcome screen, click New Project. (Or, choose File > New > Project.)
3 In the New Project dialog box, click Change Settings.
4 Select the preset that matches the format and standard of the footage you want to edit. For example, to edit most
HDV footage shot on 1080i camcorders in the American market, choose HDV 1080i 30 or HDV 1080i 25.
5 Click OK.