Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 40)

35 USING ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 8 EDITOR
Projects
Last updated 8/12/2010
6 Give the project a name and location, and click OK.
Change the settings of an open project
1 Choose Edit > Project Settings > General.
2 In the Project Settings dialog box, specify project settings for General, Capture, Video Rendering.
3 Click OK.
Check your project’s settings
Project presets consist of settings in three main categories: General, Capture, and Video Rendering. After you start a
project, you can’t change most of the project settings, such as frame rate, size, and aspect ratio. However, you can
review the settings to make sure that the media you want to add to the project is compatible.
❖ Open the project in Adobe Premiere Elements, and choose Edit > Project Settings > [category].
Note: Custom presets may be provided with third-party products, including PCs, capture cards, or hardware bundles.
Refer to the third-party documentation for details.
More Help topics
“ Understanding aspect ratios ” on page 67
“ Prepare a project for video capture ” on page 44
“ Capture video ” on page 44
“ Common settings for Sharing ” on page 279
NTSC vs PAL presets
NTSC presets conform to the NTSC standard, where each video frame consists of 525 horizontal lines displayed at
29.97 frames per second. The Standard NTSC preset is for footage that has a 4:3 aspect ratio, and the Widescreen NTSC
preset is for footage that has a 16:9 aspect ratio.
PAL presets conform to the PAL standard, where each video frame consists of 625 lines displayed at 25 frames per
second.
General settings
General settings (Edit > Project Settings > General) control the fundamental characteristics of a project, including the
editing mode used to process video, frame size, aspect ratios, count time (Display Format), and playback settings
(Timebase). These settings should match the most common source media in your project (for example, if most of your
footage is DV, use the DV Playback editing mode). Changing these settings arbitrarily may result in a loss of quality.
General settings include the following options.
Editing Mode Identifies the television standard and format chosen for the project. The following video preview
settings can’t be changed because they are determined by the editing mode: Timebase, Frame Size, Pixel Aspect Ratio,
Fields, and Sample Rate.
Note: The Editing Mode setting should represent the specifications of the source media, not the final output settings.
Specify output settings when you export a project.
Timebase Specifies the time divisions used to calculate the time position of each edit: 25 for PAL (European standard),
and 29.97 for NTSC (North American and Japanese standard).