This article contains some of the common terms that you must be familiar with to efficiently use Adobe Premiere Elements.
Project
For a video on creating a project, see http://goo.gl/ePRCw
In Adobe Premiere Elements, a project is a container of all the items (assets) that you add to a movie. Your movie will contain the movie clips that you have shot. In addition, you might want to add some photographs, background music, and narration. Also, when you add special effects, transitions, and titles to your movie in Adobe Premiere Elements, they are added to your project.
When you create a movie out of your project, Adobe Premiere Elements bundles the contents of your project into a movie file.
Things you MUST know about a project
Projects do not embed any of the content you get (import) into them. When you add an item to your project, Adobe Premiere Elements uses only the reference of the location. This is one of the reasons why it is not a good idea to move around items on your computer that you have imported into Adobe Premiere Elements. Remember to re-import the files if you have to move them for any reason.
If you are unable to work with Adobe Premiere Elements for some reason, remember that the items that you imported are safe at the location from where they were imported.
Your original files are not edited when you work on them in Adobe Premiere Elements. You can reuse the same files in another project and the changes you made in a project where you used them will not be reflected. Continue reading
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