Adding the Superboy Clip to the Timeline

The first thing we'll do with this project is bring in the hero of our clip, who resides in the superboy.avi clip, and add him to the Timeline. Once he's safely there, we'll strip away the greenscreen background as the next step in making you believe a manwell, a boycan fly.

Add the Superboy Clip

Start Premiere Elements and create a new project called superhero.

Click the Get Media from button on the Media panel to access the Get Media from view, if it's not already active.

Select DVD, Digital Camera, Mobile Phone, Hard Drive Camcorder, Card Reader.

When the Media Downloader displays, click the Advanced Dialog button to switch to Advanced mode.

Select the superboy.avi clip.

Click the Get Media button. Premiere Elements copies the superboy.avi clip from the DVD onto your hard drive and adds it to the Available Media list for this project.

For this project, we'll need to be in Timeline view because we are working with multiple clips on multiple video tracks. So, If the My Project panel is not already in Timeline view, click the Timeline button to switch.

Drag and drop the superboy.avi clip on the Media panel onto the Timeline of the My Project panel onto the Video 2 track. Line up the head of the superboy.avi clip with the start of the Video 2 track.

Tip

We're placing the superboy.avi clip on the second video track because later we'll be adding the background clip to the timeline, and the superboy.avi clip needs to be above the background clip.