Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 281)

276 USING ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 8 EDITOR
Saving and sharing your movies
Last updated 8/12/2010
Microsoft Zune Creates a Windows Media Video (.wmv) file for optimal playback on Microsoft Zune.
Pocket PC Creates a Windows Media Video (.wmv) file for optimal playback on a Pocket PC.
Smartphone Creates a Windows Media Video (.wmv) file for optimal playback from a Smartphone. Choose from a
landscape or portrait preset.
Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable) Creates a MPEG-4 Movie file for optimal playback from a Sony PSP device.
Mobile Phone Creates an MPEG-4 Movie file for optimal playback from a mobile phone. Choose a preset based on the
desired final frame size.
Sharing to videotape
Share to videotape
Exporting or sharing your movie to tape is a good way to prepare it for easy presentation on TV screens, as well as a
good way to archive it before removing it from your hard disk. Also, you can recapture the movies you have stored on
tape and add them to new projects.
You can record your edited movie to tape from within Adobe Premiere Elements. If you are recording to a digital
device, such as a DV or HDV camcorder, you can record video to it through your computer’s IEEE 1394 port,
conveniently controlling your camcorder’s recording functionality from within Adobe Premiere Elements.
Share to tape with device control
If your recording device is connected to your computer by way of an IEEE 1394, port, or by way of a supported device
controller, you can record your movie to tape using the export controls built into Adobe Premiere Elements.
1 To set up for device control, do one of the following:
• If your device has an IEEE 1394 port, connect it to the same type of port on your computer. Either of these will
transmit both the video and the commands from the computer to the recording device.
• If your device has a LANC, Panasonic 5-pin (control-M), control-L, or RS422 jack, connect it to the same kind of
jack on the device controller connected with your computer. This will transmit the computer’s commands to your
device. Also, connect your AV DV converter (or digital camcorder if you are using one to make the conversion) to
your computer, and its analog audio and video outputs to your recording device.
2 Turn on the recording device and set it to VTR, VCR, or Play mode. If a dialog box appears, indicating that the
Windows operating system just found the device you plugged in, close it.
3 Start Adobe Premiere Elements, and open your project.
Note: To give your recording device additional time before your video starts and after it ends, add black frames before
and after the movie in the Timeline or Sceneline. (For more information, see “
Create and add a black video clip ” on
page 65.) In addition, if you plan to have a postproduction facility duplicate your videotapes, add a minimum of 30
seconds of color bars and tone at the beginning of your program to aid in video and audio calibration. For more
information, see“
Add color bars and a 1-kHz tone ” on page 65.
4 Make sure that your recording device is on, that a blank or appendable tape is in the device, and that the tape’s
record protection tab is in a position that allows recording. If necessary, cue the tape to the location where you want
to begin recording. Make sure that you have sufficient tape, and are recording at an optimal speed, in order to
record your entire movie.