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This chapter briefly explains what's new in Adobe Premiere Elements 8. If you've used this application before, this is a great way to see what's been added and what's been enhanced. We've got instant movies, automation, artwork in animation. We've got motion tracking, and we've got new features in the Adobe Organizer. The first of the new features that I want to show you is how to make an instant movie. It's pretty amazing how you can make an instant movie with transitions, special effects, music, all this great stuff within a matter of seconds or minutes. It should never take you hours. So, let's start making a new instant movie by opening a new project. We're going to call it "Instant Movie." Let's put it in our Project Files folder on the desktop in our Chapter 9 folder, which is just a placeholder. Click "Ok." So, here's what we're going to do. If you don't have the media in this bin, if you don't have all these snowboard clips that I have, go to Get Media, go to the PC Files and Folders. You're going to go to your desktop, go to the Project Files folder, go to the Media folder, and in Snowboard Clips, what you're going to do is take all of these using Control A, click "Open," and everything loads up into the bin. So, here's all the snowboard clips, you have them in here. Go ahead and click on "Instant Movie," then what it wants you to do is select all the clips that are supposed to be added to the instant movie. With the exception of the color bars, go ahead and hit "Control A." It'll select everything, keep holding Control down until you can deselect the color bars. Click on "Next." I want you to click on the Fun theme in here. Preview it by clicking the play button, but I want you to select the Fun theme and click "Next." Then you have the option to customize the instant movie. So, the opening title, let's call this "Snowboard Fail" because this is a whole bunch of my buddies just falling all over the place trying to snowboard. It's directed by me. We've got Adobe Premiere Elements in there. It's an instant movie. Sure, I could change that if I wanted to, but I don't need to. I will put in "Total Training Inc," put in a special thanks, my buddy Brian Maffit. We'll leave it at that. I am going to take off this auto analyzer because it will take a while to finish, and I want you to look at the last thing. Go ahead and check "Duration." Let's use all the clips. Make sure that's selected. You have a couple options here to use the music, put in your own music. You can check the speed and intensity if you want more effects, if you want less effects. You'll see what I'm talking about once we render this movie. You can go to the sequence. You've got a theme order here or you can go by what the theme wants to do or you can go by the time and date of your clips, and you can do a render preview, leave that at no. We'll render it ourselves. And here it is, instant movie. Click "Apply." It's applying fun. So, what Premiere Elements is doing here is making a whole video clip of all the content we just asked for. Here it is, this is it on our Timeline. If you go to the Sceneline, it takes up one box, right here, nice and simple. So, go back to the Timeline. This is it. I just need to hit "Enter" to render my preview. So, my video is done rendering here. Now, depending on your system, you might have a fast system and that rendering could have been quick, and if you have a slower system, well, you might have went and gotten a drink or a meal, but sometimes rendering just takes a while. So, let's check out what we've got. This is our Timeline down here. I will scrub through it. You'll notice that there are some effects. There's some color effects and stuff like that. Go ahead and click the "Home" key, hit the space bar to see what I've made. Let's check it out. [Snowboard video starts playing] I'm going to stop my movie right here. If you want to watch the whole thing, go ahead and you can watch it on your system, but I've proven my point. I've made an instant movie just by selecting all the clips I wanted to use. It's kind of fun. It makes it fun to watch. I think the music and all the little transitions and cuts like that make it that much more visually interesting, and if I wanted to export this after I was done, I can go to the Share tab. I could make a disk. Before I make the disk, though, I could select the theme I wanted to use. Let's say I wanted to use the Fun theme. I'd go to "Share." I could make a disk, and I could send this on its way depending on what option I used here. All done within minutes.
