Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0

Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 delivers video-editing tools that balance power and versatility with ease of use. It's ideal for home users, hobbyists, business users, and professional videographers -- anyone who wants to produce high-quality movies and DVDs. Published reviews of the program rate Premier Element's capabilities as being on a par with many high-end editing software packages, but at a much lower cost (and with a much easier learning curve).

Adobe Premiere Elements includes all the tools necessary to acquire the footage from your Digital Video (DV) camera, so that you can begin assembling movies. Other video capture devices (hardware) can be used to convert analog video (e.g., VHS or 8mm video tape) into digital format, so that you can work with the footage in Premiere Elements.

In this workshop, due to hardware and time constraints, we won't actually be capturing video from a DV camera. All workshop video will be pre-supplied, already stored on the hard disk, ready for editing.

Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0, Level 1

Currently, we are offering a single 6-hour "Level 1" (Introductory) workshop on Adobe Premiere Elements. If there is sufficient interest, we may add a "Level 2" workshop at a later date.

Among the topics to be covered are (in a partial list):

How to capture video from your digital video camera, or other device
- general hardware considerations
- analog capture options
A quick tour of Premiere Elements
- navigating the workspace (timeline, media, and monitor panels)
- setting up new projects
- trimming and deleting video clips
- adding sound
- special effects
- how to create a DVD
Editing video
- importing files
- real time preview
- working with clips in the timeline
- working with audio
Adding and modifying transitions
Adding and modifying special effects
Adding and modifying titles and credits
As time allows, creating DVD menus

Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0, Level 1

Prerequisite: Familiarity with using Windows (see list of prerequisite "Windows Skills")
Instructor: Peter Kimble, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
Hours: 6
UIUC CEU’s: 0.6
CPDUs: 6 (Illinois teachers are eligible to earn 6 CPDUs for this workshop)
Fee: $122 (includes reference book)

Date / Time: May 15, 2008 (Thurs); 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (lunch on your own 11:30 - 1:00)
Registration Code: W-1655-E
Location: UI Armory Building, Suite 156 (use NE entrance to Armory)

This workshop will be offered again during Fall, 2008.

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Windows Skills

Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 (and its big brother, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3) are only available for Windows XP or Vista computers (or Intel-based Macintoshes running Windows XP or Vista). Courtesy of Adobe Press*, here is a list of Windows-related skills necessary to fully take advantage of this workshop, and the Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 software itself. You should be able to answer "yes" to each of the following questions:

Do you know how to use the Microsoft Windows Start button and the Windows task bar? Can you open menus and submenus, and choose items from those menus?
Do you know how to use My Computer, Windows Explorer, or Internet Explorer to find items stored in folders on your computer, or to browse the Internet?
Are you comfortable using the mouse to move the cursor, select items, drag, and deselect? Have you used context menus, which open when you right-click items?
When you have two or more open applications, do you know how to switch from one to another? Do you know how to switch to the Windows Desktop?
Do you know how to open, close, and minimize individual windows? Can you move them to different locations on your screen? Can you resize a window by dragging?
Can you scroll (vertically and horizontally) within a window to see contents that my not be visible in the displayed area?
Are you familiar with the menus across the top of an application and how to use those menus?
Have you used dialog boxes, such as the Print dialog box? Do you know how to click arrow icons to open a drop-down menu within a dialog box?
Can you open, save, and close a file? Are you familiar with word processing tasks, such as typing, selecting words, backspacing, deleting, copying, pasting, and changing text?
Do you know how to open and find information in Microsoft Windows Help?

*List of prerequisite skills from Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 Classroom In A Book (2006), Adobe Press, ISBN 0-321-38548-9