Adobe Premier Elements gives you the control to adjust hue, contrast and brightness for each video clip in your movie. You can lighten a dark scene or increase the overall color of a scene. You will see your scenes previewed in the monitor as you make the changes. You can make these changes as you edit the movie or at the end when you added special effects and the soundtrack.

1. Step 1

   Open your movie file with Adobe Premier Elements. On the right you will see the properties palette of your scene. Click on the IMAGE CONTROL tab to display the image properties you can adjust.

2. Step 2

   We want to change the saturation of this picture. However, before we do we will increase the BRIGHTNESS by 10. This will enable us to increase the saturation without adversely affecting the shadow areas.

3. Step 3

   Notice, we have entered 10 into the brightness tab and the image has become noticeably brighter. The colors now also appear to be under saturated allowing us to adjust the saturation.

4. Step 4

   Enter 70 in to the saturation box. The image is now properly saturated and the blue sky appears to be brighter and more pleasant than in the original. These are fine tuning adjustments.

5. Step 5

   You can also make artistic adjustments. By adding 120 into the HUE adjustment we can create an alien landscape and a unique special effect.

Once you have finished editing your movie, creating special effects and adding a soundtrack, you are ready to make a DVD. Adobe Premiere Elements includes a number of templates and themes to allow you to easily create a home DVD. The themes are conveniently located on the left MEDIA panel when you select the CREATE DVD tab.

1. Step 1

   Open your completed video in Adobe Premier Elements. The movie will open in EDIT MOVIE mode. You will see your list of clips in the MEDIA PANEL on the left. Click on the tab entitled CREATE DVD.

2. Step 2

   Notice that the choices in the MEDIA PANEL have changed. The bottom folder in this mode is where the DVD templates are stored. Scroll through the templates until you find one that suits your subject. A (V) next to the template means that it is a video template. Other templates contain still images. In this case we chose the cartoon movie template. Double click on the template to make it appear in the center monitor window.

3. Step 3

   Click on the MAIN MENU to edit the text for the main menu you will see when the DVD starts. When you have edited you title, click on the SCENES MENU. The program will create a chapter for each clip on your MOVIE TIMELINE. You can change the title and arrange the text of your clips to fit the design.

4. Step 4

   In the Monitor Window click on the text to change it and a text box will open allowing you to change the text. Notice on the properties panel you can change the font, color and type size to fit your need.

5. Step 5

   On the properties panel, you can select a different image or point in the movie to display as a thumbnail. You can also browse for music to use for you DVD titles pages. You can select separate music for your title page and different music for your chapters if you desire.

6. Step 6

   When you have it the way you want, click on BURN. You can use this to burn the DVD to a disk or to burn it to a folder which you can later burn on a disk. You also select the location, burn more then one copy and select the quality level for your DVD.

If you’ve ever had the itch to make your own movie you can start with a camcorder, a PC and Premiere Elements. Elements offers a simple interface and a drag and drop entry into the process of digital film making.

1. Step 1

   Plan the movie. Make sure it has a setup, a climax, and resolution. Storyboard the key scenes and write the dialogue

2. Step 2

   Film the movie. For the best quality use a high definition or digital camcorder with a USB or Firewire connection. Use good lighting if you’re filming indoors.

3. Step 3

   Capture the video clips. Click on the capture tab to open the capture window. Use the device controls to move through the video and capture specific clips to disk. Import any additional sound files and graphics.

4. Step 4

   Assemble the footage in the edit window. Drag the clips to the timeline. You can trim them by dragging from the edges. Click on your music files to load background music to the timeline.

5. Step 5

   Click on the transitions tab. You will find a number of preloaded transitions. Drag them to the timeline above the clips, and drag from each end to adjust the duration.

6. Step 6

   Add titles. Place them in the timeline above the video tracks. They can play on solid backgrounds or directly over the video.

7. Step 7

   Save the movie. You can create a video for playback from the hard drive, online or DVD. Select the output format settings to control file size and dimensions.

If you need to make slow motion video in your project, Adobe Premiere Elements has an great tool called time stretch to make it easy. This article will show you step by step how to add slow motion to your video project with Premiere Elements.

1. Step 1

   Open an Adobe Premiere elements video project. You should already have video files populated in your project. Click on the “Timeline” tab at the far right of the “My Project” dialog box. See the photo for the location of the timeline tab.

2. Step 2

   Roll your mouse pointer to the top of the header of the video file you want to change to slow motion. Hold it there a few seconds and a small yellow box will appear near the pointer. This box will contain the file name of the clip, the timecode start position, the timecode end position and the duration of the clip. Write down the duration of the clip. It will be in the format such as 00;00;02;20. For this example it would be a 2.20 second clip. If you want to make the clip shorter for slow motion use the split clip button on the monitor dialog box.

3. Step 3

   In the timeline dialog box, grab the video clip next to the video you want to make slow motion by using your mouse. Place the arrow on the top of the video bar and left click your mouse (somewhere in the middle of the bar). The bars on top of the video and audio should now be dark. While holding in the left mouse button, slide the video clip to the right about the width of the video clip you want to change to slow motion.

4. Step 4

   Press control and the “R” button. A dialog box that says “Time Stretch” will appear. Next to speed select the 100% and type in a lower number to slow down the video. For example 50% will slow the video to half the speed. To avoid the dreaded slow record sound you can check the box labeled “Maintain Audio Pitch”. This will magically make the tone sound a lot better.
   Select the header of the video file your are applying slow motion. Grab the right side of the block until you see a red arrow. Left click and pull the bar to the right by holding down the left mouse button until you get the length correct. If you apply slow motion to 50% then you will roughly need to double the length of the video file. You will have the duration from step 2.

5. Step 5

   If you need to video files to sync, click the gap between the two files and press delete to join them back together. If the files still are not in sync, then grab the edge or press page up or page down to get to the edge of the video file. Left click and move the edge left or right to get the two files timed right. You can use the split screen to help.
   Using these easy steps you will be on your way to making slow motion video using Adobe Premiere Elements.

Adobe Premiere Elements provides extensive tools for adjusting the brightness, contrast, saturation, opacity and hue of a video clip. The tools are easy to use and provide the videographer similar editing tools that photographers are use to using with Adobe Photoshop. This is a clip of a hummingbird feeder that is in shadow under a desert sun. The hummingbirds will essentially be back lit, so it is important to adjust the scene color to be accurate.

1. Step 1

   First look at the properties panel to the right of the image preview. Click on the tab labeled IMAGE CONTROL to expand the selections. If the IMAGE CONTROL tab is not in the PROPERTIES PANEL, select it from the IMAGE and EFFECTS tab on the left panel and drag the IMAGE CONTROL icon over to the preview window. The Control pane; will now appear under PROPERTIES.

2. Step 2

   Adjust the CONTRAST and BRIGHTNESS. In this case we adjusted the contrast to 80 and the brightness to 5. Make the adjustment by typing in a number. You will notice the changes in the monitor as you make them. This simple adjustment helped the image, but did not change the “red” enough.

3. Step 3

   In order to make specific changes to the color, we will need to use the CHANNEL MIXER. This mixer allows you to make changes to specific colors. Adjustments to contrast and color impact all color channels. From the IMAGE and EFFECTS tab on the left panel and drag the CHANNEL MIXER icon over to the preview window. This will open the CHANNEL MIXER in the PROPERTIES PANEL on the right.

4. Step 4

   Notice the way the defaults are set for the video clip. For each color channel (RGB) you can adjust the primary in relationship to the rest of the primaries as well as the contrast for each channel. You can, for example change the contrast for only the RED channel. The defaults are always set to 100 for red-red, blue-blue and green-green. The contrast is always set to zero even tough we made an overall contrast change under image control properties.

5. Step 5

   For the final correction we changed the RED-BLUE to 5.0 and the RED CONTRAST to 8.0. This image shows all the corrections we made to this clip.

6. Step 6

   The final result looks much better. The feeder is now RED as it should be and the hills have the natural reddish brown color of the actual scene along with the California blue sky.