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Hello, this is Chad Perkins from lynda.com.
In this tutorial, we're going to look at exporting to a file on your computer
from Premiere Elements.
Premiere Elements makes the process of exporting to a file on your computer
so much easier than it is in almost every other program out there.
So, what I'm going to do is go over to the Share workspace,
and then I'm going to click "Personal Computer,"
and that's going to be the focus of our tutorial, but just be aware that if you were going to
output to any other type of media, if you're going to output to disk, online,
to mobile phones and devices or to tape, it would be just as easy to do that as well.
So, I'm going to click on "Personal Computer."
And the problem with exporting to a personal computer
is that there are millions of different file formats.
Well, not millions, but there's a lot.
And there's also loads of different types of compression as well.
Premiere Elements takes the guesswork out of that by giving you simple categories.
So, if you want to use a video to post on a webpage, then select Adobe Flash Video.
Once you click on Adobe Flash Video, then you get a few different presets.
Flash Video 8 is more current. Flash Video 7 will be compatible on more computers.
The K here refers to quality in download speed.
700 K would be the best quality, but also it would take the longest to download.
If you're just going to use a file to play back on your computer, choose MPEG.
This is also good for burning to DVD later on.
Both MPEG and DV-AVI are really high-quality files,
DV-AVI especially being formatted for use in Premiere Elements, again.
So, if you wanted to output an entire video project and perhaps edit it
more later in the future and not have it look too shabby,
then DV-AVI would be the standard that you would choose.
Now, MPEG and DV-AVI are going to create pretty big files.
For smaller files, you can choose Windows Media or QuickTime.
Now, I'm going to select QuickTime in this instance.
It says "Use for email and playback on a Mac."
You should be aware, though, that as long as you download the most recent version
of QuickTime, on Windows you can use these files as well.
Now, when you use Windows Media or QuickTime,
it actually makes a very small file size for you.
As it says, "Use for email and playback on Windows or Mac."
So, if you're going to email a video, it's going to have to shrink it down really small,
both the size and the quality.
But you may not want the quality to be reduced that much,
or you may not want the size to be reduced that much.
So, to alter that, you can click on the "Advanced" tab.
This brings up the Export Settings dialog box.
And folks, just a little secret here.
This actually mimics the same export settings dialog you would find in Adobe Premiere Pro,
Adobe's professional level video editing program.
We come down here to basic video settings, and we see that the default
is actually 50, half the quality that it could be.
So, if we want to increase the quality, we can click on this number and drag it to the right.
Also, the frame width and height are 320 x 240.
This is less than half of the resolution of our source video.
So, we can change that here as well.
Now, a big part of the final result of the video as far as quality and file size is the codec.
That means how the video is encoded, how it's compressed.
Now, if you're just going to be watching this video on your computer,
this isn't something you need to stress out about that much.
But here's the deal with codecs.
The same way that you compress it has to be the same way
that you decompress it when you watch the video.
So, let's say we use this H.264 codec on our machines to compress this video.
We'll be able to watch it just fine, but if we send it to a friend
that doesn't have the H.264 codec installed on their machine,
then they will not be able to watch the video.
H.264 is kind of like the new standard for great quality video
at really small file sizes.
This is also the way video is compressed for iPods and iPhones,
so if you want to take some of the guesswork out of it, you could cancel this
and actually go back and then select "Mobile Phones and Players"
and select "Video for Apple iPod and iPhone."
Even if you never intend on outputting to iPods or iPhones,
you can still create a higher quality H.264 video in that way.
Note that the default frame size here is double what we saw
with the preset when we were going to email it before.
So, once you're all done with that, click "Browse" to find a place to save it.
Give it a good name here and click "Save" and you're done.
And folks, trust me on this one.
It is unbelievably easy to export from Premiere Elements compared with
more professional level applications.
If we go back here to Personal Computer, these formats,
along with their hints, take so much of the guesswork out of this whole process.
It's really one of the great benefits of being a user of Premiere Elements.
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