Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 29)

24 USING ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 8 EDITOR
Projects
Last updated 8/12/2010
2 Follow the prompts in the upper left of the Organize workspace. These prompts step you through the process of
creating an InstantMovie:
a Select the clips that you want to include in your movie. (If you already have clips in the Sceneline or Timeline,
you can now select additional clips if desired.) Click Next.
b Choose a theme for your movie. To preview a theme, move the mouse cursor over the theme’s thumbnail to see
a description, and click the Play button to watch a preview. Click Next.
c Specify properties for your theme. Click Apply.
You can also create Instant movies from Elements Organizer.
Apply a theme to an existing project
If you’ve already created a project and want to use a theme on all or part of it, use the Themes button in the Edit view.
1 Do one of the following:
• To apply the theme to the entire project, leave all clips unselected.
• To apply the theme to only a portion of the project, select the clips you want to use with the theme.
2 In the Tasks panel, click Edit, and then click Themes.
The Themes view of the Tasks panel opens. To preview a theme, move the mouse cursor over the theme’s
thumbnail and click the Play button
that appears.
3 Select a theme and click Next.
4 In the Theme properties view, specify properties as desired, and click Apply.
Theme properties
When you add a theme to your project, you can specify which properties of the theme you want to use and how you
want to use them. You access theme properties after selecting a theme and clicking Next in the Tasks panel.
Default options change depending on the theme and how you accessed the theme. For example, when accessing
themes through the InstantMovie button, the Auto-Analyzer option is selected by default; it is not selected when you
add a theme using the Themes button.
You can specify any of the following theme properties.
Opening and Closing Titles Opening and closing titles can be multiple lines; however, for best results, keep the
opening title to one line.
InstantMovie Specifies whether you want to perform an auto edit, which automatically trims the clips and adds them
to the project based on their Smart Tags. And whether to analyze clips and apply Smart Tags to them.
Apply To Specifies whether to apply the theme to the entire project or to only the clips selected in the Sceneline or
Timeline. (This option is not available, if you created your InstantMovie by clicking InstantMovie from the Organize
workspace.)
Music Specifies whether to use the theme music, your own music (click Browse to locate and open it), or no music.
You can select multiple music clips (you can select them here or from the Organize workspace as part of the original
asset selection), and they are played in the order selected. Drag the slider between Music/Sound FX and My Clips to
set the amount of soundtrack and audio effects used versus the sound from your clips. InstantMovie syncs with the
beats of the music, so changing the song may significantly change the results. In addition, changing the song changes
the duration of the movie to match the duration of the new song.
Speed And Intensity Enables you to control the speed of cuts and amount of effects. Click the triangle beside the Speed
And Intensity option and use the slider to adjust the speed of cuts and amount of effects.