Adobe Premiere Elements 12 - Manual (Page 251)

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finish. You can also use scene markers when you want your viewer to be able to jump ahead to specific scenes.
You can add scene markers automatically or manually. Premiere Elements uses scene markers to create a scene menu. The scene menu is
accessible from the Scenes button on the disc main menu. If you have no scene markers in the Expert view timeline, Premiere Elements omits the
Scenes button and the scenes menu.
Stop markers
Stop markers designate the end of a movie. When the disc player reaches a stop marker, it returns to the main menu. If you add a stop marker to
the Expert view timeline, a disc player doesn’t play the movie from start to finish. Therefore, you generally add stop markers only if you’ve divided
your video into separate movies. In addition, you don’t need to play the clips in the Expert view timeline from beginning to end.
You add stop markers manually. Use stop markers to indicate the end of each movie that you want listed on the main menu of your disc.
Whenever a stop marker is reached, the movie stops and returns to the main menu.
Stop markers are used for DVD only.
Add scene markers automatically
The Generate Menu Markers command places scene markers for you. Sometimes you can save time if you let Premiere Elements initially place
scene markers, which you can clean up later as necessary. You get the best results when each scene in your movie is a separate clip. In adiition,
all the clips you want marked are on the Video 1 track. If your movie consists of multiple clips that overlay each other, you might prefer to place
scene markers manually or place them at set intervals.
Automatically placed scene markers do not have names. Therefore, the buttons on the scene menu remain as named in the template. To
customize the buttons, you can either name the markers after they are placed or rename the buttons after you select the template.
1. Click the Expert view timeline to make it active.
2. Click Tools on the Action bar, and choose Movie Menu from the Tools panel.
3. Choose a movie theme and select Add Menu Markers Automatically For Me.
4. Click Settings and specify how you want the markers placed, entering a value if required:
Places a scene marker at each edit point (cut) between clips on the Video 1 track, not at the ends of transitions. Only one
scene marker is placed at the beginning of a series of still images in the Expert view timeline.
Places scene markers at the interval you specify. (This option is only available when the movie contains several minutes
of footage.)
Spaces the number of markers you specify evenly across the entire range of clips in the Expert view timeline.
5. If the Expert view timeline contains existing markers that you no longer want, select Clear Existing Menu Markers. (When you clear the
markers, you clear the marker names and thumbnail offsets associated with each one.)
6. Click Continue. Scene markers are added to the Expert view timeline, underneath the time ruler. If necessary, use the options in the Adjust
panel to modify the properties of the menu.
7. If you don’t like the placement of a marker, drag it in the time ruler to a different location.
Scene markers are not tied to the video. If you later edit the video, you may need to move the markers or regenerate them so that
they match the new edit points.
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