tell the story p. 25 Obviously, you can't include clips in your projects that you haven't first shot with your video camera. When I shoot an event, be it a wedding, concert, birthday, or family outing, I make a short list of required shots for that event before I leave for the shoot. It's typically pretty easy to formulate the list if you think about it in advance, but if you try to get all the shots without planning, you're bound to miss one or two.
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set in/out points p. 28 Some clips, like the Happy Birthday Song clip in my birthday video, must be long enough to cover the entire scene. Most other clips, however, such as those shot just to make sure that all relevant friends and family make it into the video, should be as short as possible, under 5 seconds if possible. These will feel pretty choppy when you initially preview them, but everything will fall into place when you add background music to these clips in Chapter 7.
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trim between clips p. 32 In the next chapter, you'll learn about transitions, which are visual effects that help smooth the move from one clip to the next. If you plan to use transitions between clips, consider the transition duration when trimming your clips. For example, a 30-frame dissolve transition creates a 1-second overlap between the two clips. When trimming, be sure that any critical action or audio in the first clip ends at least half a second from the end of the clip, and that any critical action or audio in the second clip starts at least half a second into that clip. Similarly, if you fade in from black (an effect discussed in Chapter 5), the first half-second of the clip will be partially obscured by the fade-in effect. When trimming, be sure that any critical action or audio starts after that half-second. Ditto at the end of a clip if you plan to fade to black at the clip's end.
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save your project p. 35 The project file doesn't contain the video, audio, and digital picture files that make up the project; it simply contains references to them. This keeps the project files small, but it means that you can't delete those files until after you've rendered your final movie.
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ripple delete p. 38 If you click a clip and press Delete on your keyboard, Premiere Elements deletes the clip, and shifts all subsequent clips to the left to close the gap, which is the same result you get if you right click and choose Ripple Delete. To leave a space in the Timeline where you deleted a clip, right click and choose Clear. To delete only the audio or video portion of a clip, right click and choose Unlink Audio and Video. Then you can delete either track without deleting the other.
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