Adding Video and Graphics Clips to the Project

In this step, we'll add the video clips for the project, anchor.avi and reporter.avi, as well as the background and foreground graphics clips, 144_Background1.mov and 144_Lowerthird2.mov. The anchor.avi clip is the anchorman for the project and the reporter.avi clip is the "girl on the street" reporting "live" from Hawaii.

Add the Video Clips to the Project

Start Premiere Elements and create a new project called nightlynews.

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 following clips for this project:

• 144_Background1.mov

• 144_Lowerthird2.mov

• anchor.avi

• reporter.avi

Click the Get Media button. Premiere Elements copies the clips from the DVD onto your hard drive and adds them to the Available Media list for this project.