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Premiere Elements 2022 adds two new Guided Edits to its repertoire – Animated Overlays and Adjust Shadows and Highlights. The Animated Overlays guided edit teaches you to how to add effects such as floating bubbles or falling Autumn leaves to your video footage.
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(Image credit: George Cairns) (opens in new tab) Here we’ve added lightning, fog and rain elements on separate layers. New weather themed animations help change the look and mood your clips. Step-by-step text instructions are accompanied by pop-up highlights around various buttons and panels, so you can quickly learn how to find and use the workspace’s key editing tools. Here 28 themed Guided Edits (three up from last year) walk you through the video production process – from the basic tasks of importing, re-ordering and trimming clips in the timeline to adding post-production graphical elements such as titles and captions. The novice video editor should head over to the Guided workspace. You can also add titles and transitions here. The Quick workspace is the perfect place to trim single clips or cut a few shots together in the timeline before sharing them as a sequence. If you’re familiar with Photoshop Elements then Premiere Elements will look similar thanks to the same three workspaces - Quick, Guided and Expert. There’s no noticeable difference to the light grey look of the Premiere Elements 2022 workspace compared with earlier incarnations, but this will be comforting to those already using version 2021 (or earlier). Here we’ve added light leakage and lens flare. If you want to find out why, have a watch of this video from John Hess at Filmmaker IQ (and the addendum video to compensate for YouTube encoding).You can combine animated overlays as multiple layers to produce more complex effects. It is worth noting that you don’t typically want to have your edits right on the beat, but one frame ahead. Maybe show a different part of the clip, or adjust the duration of some clips to better fit the feel of the music in different parts, but it’s going to potentially shave hours off your editing time. You’ll still want to watch through it, and probably tweak clips here and there to give a better feel. It’s worth noting, though, that this isn’t just a one-click solution for making music videos. And you’ll have to do this before you hit the “Automate to Sequence” button. And you can also set the start or end points to match up to the section of the clip you want to appear on the timeline, too. So, you’ll want to drag the clips around to match the order you want them in your timeline. The only thing to be aware of is that the clips are added to your timeline in the order they appear in your media pool (or bin or whatever Premiere Pro calls it).
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I’ve never really had a need to, but for something like this, it looks fantastic. I have to admit, I’ve never used the “Automate to Sequence” function before. Then, once your markers are in, select your clips and “Automate to Sequence”.
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Instead of simply having a market at every beat, you can set one to every other beat, or every third beat, or even fractions of a beat for really fast-paced shot changes. It works in largely the same way, as Kelsey demonstrates, but gives you a lot more options and control over how those markers are placed into your scene. It’s $99.99 for Premiere Pro (or $199.97 if you want all three versions for Premiere Pro, After Effects and Audition). The second addon being shown off is BeatEdit 2, and this one’s not inexpensive. Once the markers are in, you just select all your clips, click the “Automate to Sequence” button and all of the clips appear on your timeline. Then, just click a button and it processes your audio, placing markers on your timeline at every beat. In it, you can adjust the processing area if you just want to sync footage to a small portion of the music or you can process all of it if you want to do the whole thing. And the big difference with this one is that it’s completely free.