Adobe Premiere Elements 9 guide
4 Overview of Premiere Elements workspace © 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated
Media workspace. This does not delete the media from your computer; if you need to use the media later,
you can re-import it into Premiere Elements.
• The Instant Movie area enables you to automatically create a movie from the clips currently in the
organizer.
• The Project area lists current projects.
The Edit workspace
In the Edit workspace, you can improve the appearance of your clips as well as add effects to your clips. You can
also add transitions, titles, themes, and clip art to your projects.
• The Effects view enables you to add effects to your video. Here, you can do everything from adjusting
color levels to giving your project the appearance of an old film.
• The Transitions view enables you to add and edit a range of transitions, such as slides, blends, and
dissolves.
• The Titles view enables you to add titles and credits to your project, choosing from a range of preformatted
templates.
• The Themes view enables you to add a set of preformatted soundtracks, sound effects, backdrops, and titles
that are all thematically linked. For example, you can choose Halloween themes or Spring themes.
• The Clip Art view enables you to add clip art to your video, such as animals, tools, costumes, and other
graphics.
The Disc Menus workspace
The Disc Menus workspace enables you to create a disc menu for a DVD or Blu-ray disc. This is the menu that
appears when a user inserts a disc into a player. You create menus from templates.
• All templates have at least two buttons: a Menu 1 button and a Scene 1 button. The Menu button enables
users to return to the menu, and the Scene button enables users to play the movie. You can add more
buttons by using the Disc Menu workspace.
• If you have added menu and scene markers in the Timeline, Menu buttons are automatically linked to these
markers.
• On some templates, you can drag and drop a still image or video to personalize the menu background. You
can also personalize a template by changing fonts, colors, backgrounds, and layout. To edit these, you click
them and change options.
The Share workspace
The Share workspace contains everything you need to share your finished project. You can share your project on the
web or on a DVD, a mobile phone, your computer, and more.
You can use Quick Share to create and reuse preset sharing options. For example, if you frequently share projects to
a smart phone, set up your optimal settings for the phone and save those settings as a Quick Share. The next time
you want to share a project to a smart phone, use the Quick Share preset you created instead of setting all the smart
phone options again.
For more information on sharing, see the guide titled “How to share.”
