Get the 13.1 update for Premiere Elements, and you get some nifty enhancements with useful fixes to make your video editing smoother.

See sample text before using a font: A visually enhanced font selection interface lets you see what a font looks like, before you use it. The drop-down list displays sample text for each font, making selections for your titles and text that much easier.

Access to Instant Movies and Video Story: Start creating an instant movie or a video story as soon as you launch Premiere Elements. In addition to Add Media, the start screen now includes options for creating an Instant Movie or a Video Story.

Video story images with Pan and Zoom: A video story interspersed with images may appear to not flow very smoothly. The Premiere Elements 13.1 update uses Pan and Zoom for the image assets in your video story, minimizing any element of abruptness between shots. To change Pan and Zoom settings, click  Preview for an image and open the preview window. Select or clear the appropriate check boxes and apply the changes to some or all of your images.

Frequently used actions: You now have access to the Frequently Used panel when working with effects in Expert View. The panel is available for the Transitions, Titles & Text, Effects, and Audio options on the Action bar. As the name suggests, the panel lists the effects that you use most often.

ISO image for disc burn failures: A disc burn failure can be frustrating considering that it is a time-consuming operation. The Premiere Elements update creates and saves an ISO image on your computer, in the event that a hardware issue causes a disc burn operation to fail. You can then choose to burn the ISO image to a disc, as per your convenience. While the option to explicitly Burn to ISO image continues to be available, this enhancement saves you a lot of time in case of an inadvertent disc burn failure. Also see Disc burning guidelines and Common causes of disc burn failures.

Other enhancements include support for Wacom tablets and a fix for project corruption issues with iCloud.

Adobe released Photoshop Elements 14 and Premiere Elements 14 on September 24. The power and simplicity of these photo editing and video editing products is known to one and all. The latest release comes with some great new features and some significantly enhanced workflows to help you do amazing things with your photos and videos. Easily.

What’s more, learning Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements has never been easier.

Each option from the Help menu opens a bouquet of resources carefully created or curated for you.

Step-by-step articles to get you started

Whether you are a first-time user of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements or are upgrading from an earlier version, read the set of getting started articles we have put together for you. The simple instructions and accompanying screenshots and visuals will help you to understand and try the basic workflow of photo editing and video editing in less than an hour. You will learn how to bring in your photos and videos into Elements Organizer, key ways to organize them, basic editing and movie making tasks, and finally how to share.

Access the getting started articles from within the apps (Help > Getting Started) or bookmark the following links:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/topics/getting-started-tutorials.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/topics/getting-started-tutorials.html

Video tutorials

Videos are an easy way to become familiar with the user interface of any app. To learn Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements with the help of video tutorials, select Help > Video Tutorials or bookmark the following pages:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/tutorials.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/tutorials.html

Visual dictionary of key imaging concepts

Many a time, words like ‘saturation’ or vignette’ on the user interface or in the instructions become a stumbling block. Understanding these imaging concepts, especially in the context of the tasks you can accomplish, can help you become more and more proficient with the apps.

We already had a visual dictionary of key imaging concepts. In this release, we have started the process of integrating these concepts in Help. Tell us if you find this integration useful (please use the Comments section of this post).

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/key-concepts.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/using/color-tonal-correction-basics.html

Detailed Help articles

From the workspaces of Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements, and Elements Organizer, you can press F1 to launch context-sensitive Help from the web. For the new and enhanced features in this release, find detailed information in the following articles:

Photoshop Elements

What’s new: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/using/whats-new.html

Index of detailed articles: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/using/topics.html

Premiere Elements

What’s new: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/using/whats-new.html

Index of detailed articles: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/using/topics.html

Elements Organizer

What’s new: https://helpx.adobe.com/elements-organizer/using/whats-new.html

Index of articles: https://helpx.adobe.com/elements-organizer/using/topics.html

Step-by-step Contact Support

Use the following links if you need to contact Adobe Customer Care (make sure that you have first checked the online resources to find answers to your queries):
https://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html?step=PSE
https://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html?step=PRE

Support hubs

Find the links to the most important Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements resources on these pages:
https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html#/product/photoshop-elements
https://helpx.adobe.com/support.html#/product/premiere-elements

We listen to your feedback and update these pages with resources that can help you learn or troubleshoot.

eLive

Last but not the least, anytime you need inspiration or help, do not forget to click the eLive tab while you work with Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements, or Elements Organizer. Using the eLive option, you can access a stream of learning and troubleshooting resources from within the apps. These resources are fetched live from the web so you can stay up-to-date and inspired.

Visit the product pages on adobe.com (Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements) to check out how to try for free and to buy or upgrade.

To share your work and interact with other users, follow us on Facebook (Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements), Twitter, and Pinterest.

Your favorite video editing product now gives you more reasons to call it your favorite. Premiere Elements 14 comes with a whole new bunch of features that will give your movies that extra something. Create stunning movie titles, enhance your audio clips, bring in color pops, and export to multiple formats. Here’s a look at what you get from the best.

Motion Titles

Tell a more compelling story with the stunning new motion titles. Enjoy the convenience of predefined templates and the flexibility of customizing specific components of your title. Enhance the title text, graphic elements, as well as the background to suit your needs. Resize or move the title to get that perfect look. To learn more, see Motion Titles.

Color pop

Create some vivid imagery with selective coloring. Premiere Elements provides you with a guided edit that walks you through the process of converting your videos to black and white, with one or more colors that pop out. Use the guided edit and you are on your way to creating videos that stand out and highlight the key elements in your movie. To learn more, see Color Pop.

Slow and fast motion effects

Infuse energy into your video or slow things down with the latest motion effects. Premiere Elements offers you guided edits to play around with the clip speed. Use the step-by-step approach to slow down your video or to increase the speed of your clip. Use this time remapping feature to highlight your favorite life moments. To learn more, see Time remapping.

Audio view

Enhance your audio tracks to achieve that professional sound for your movies. With Premiere Elements new audio view, you can focus on refining the sound while your time line remains intact. When in the audio view, all the tools that you need to make your movies sound the best, are very easily accessible. Disable tracks, increase the master volume, or use transitions, all from the audio view and set the right mood for your video. To learn more, see Audio View.

Export and share

Share your special memories with family and friends without having to worry about the right output formats. The Quick Export option of the Export and Share feature is one of the easiest to use. Premiere Elements picks a suitable format based on your input clip and the output can be viewed across multiple devices. You also get recommendations for other media formats that you can select or modify, as per your needs. The additional convenience of having all the options in a single panel, makes sharing movies that much quicker. To learn more, see Export and share.

Get Premiere Elements 14 now and get started with making some captivating movies and treasured memories.

Fine-tuned and enhanced – the Premiere Elements 14.1 update has the latest feature enhancements and fixes for an even better video editing experience.

Fade in and out both audio and video simultaneously

In the Expert editor workspace, you can now choose to simultaneously Fade In and Out either the audio, video or both for a clip, by choosing the appropriate Fade option from the right-click menu.

Access your rendered movie from the Export & Share panel

After exporting your movie to a desired format, you can access the output file from the Export & Share panel. On successful export, the Export & Share panel displays the Open Folder button that you can use to navigate to the output folder and access your final video.

Another enhancement to the Export & Share experience is the name for your exported file. Instead of being named, Untitled, the exported file now uses the same name as that of your project. Also available to you is access to contextual help for each of the export formats, on clicking the Help icon.

Quick access to Audio Hardware Settings

If you do not have the right audio hardware settings for recording a narration, Premiere Elements alerts you about the conflict. The Alert message now provides you quick access to the Audio Hardware Settings dialog box. Click Open Audio Preferences on the Alert dialog box and rectify your settings.

The button for accessing the audio hardware settings (from the Preferences panel) has also been renamed from ASIO to Audio Hardware Settings.

Fixes and usability improvements

• After importing clips from Elements Organizer into Premiere Elements, the CTI is automatically placed at the beginning of the imported clips in the sequence.
• The right-click option to export a Classic Title is now available not only from the Grid view but also from the List View of the Project Assets panel.
• When copying a Motion Title from the Project asset panel, a copy of the text layer is also created. This means that changing the text of the copied Motion Title will not affect the text of the source Motion Title.
• Issues with adjusting opacity of the default background for some of the Motion Title templates (WeddingLowerthirdOne, WeddingLowerthirdTwo, and WeddingLowerthirdThree), have now been fixed.
• Clicking Download All in Motion Titles Panel now downloads those Motion Titles that belong to the selected category. This is an improvement from the previous behavior where Classic Titles were downloaded along with the Motion Titles.
• Premiere Elements no longer crashes when dragging and dropping the Hollywood look effect to the timeline, in the Quick View workspace.
• Premiere Elements no longer crashes when a clip containing 5.1 Audio is imported into Premiere Elements, from Elements Organizer, and the volume is keyframed before playback.
• For Mac platforms, graphics installed with the application that were not accessible from the Graphics panel can now be accessed with the Premiere Elements 14.1 update.
• DVD burn failures for videos with Stop Marker in the last few frames at the end of sequence no longer occur with the latest Premiere Elements update,
• While exporting videos with 720p resolution and 30fps frame rate, issues with incorrect fps of 60 being assigned have now been rectified.

So go ahead, get your latest update now.

In collaboration with Kalika Arora

Tired of posting stills on your social networks? Try learning easy techniques to create short, innovative videos of your creative work and spice up your posts. Start off by screen-recording your creation on your device, step-by-step from scratch. Once you have the video clip, you’re ready to apply quick, fun edits to your video using Adobe Premiere Elements.

To find out the supported file types in Adobe Premiere Elements, see Supported file formats.

Here’s a tutorial on how you can play with the clip speed and add dramatic motion effects to your video, using the Time remapping feature in Adobe Premiere Elements. Let’s take an example of a sketch demonstration and apply Time Remapping to it to achieve this video:

Curious to learn how to achieve the slow and fast motion effects? Let’s get started.

1. Launch Adobe Premiere Elements and click Add media in the upper-right corner of the screen to import the video clip that you want to work with.

2. Select the option to import media and choose your clip.

3. Select the Quick edit mode in the upper panel of the screen to quickly work with video edits.

4. Click the Tools icon  in the right panel of the screen and select Time Remapping from the displayed options.

The following screen appears:

The highlighted section displays the CTI

Adding a slow motion effect

1. In the timeline panel at the bottom which displays every frame of your video, move the CTI to the frame from where you want to apply the effect.

2. Click Add TimeZone from the bottom panel.

3. Now move the handles on the timeline to indicate the start and end frames for which you want to apply the effect on. In this video, this effect has been applied at the start of the video clip to showcase the plain sketch in slow motion.

4. Once you’ve selected the frames (indicated by the green color), select an effect from the given options in the bottom bar.

5. Move the slider to the desired effect ranging from Extremely Slow to Normal, to apply a slow effect.

6. Click Done.

7. Adobe Premiere Elements will take you back to the Quick edit mode screen. Place the CTI at the first frame and click play to view the effect.

You can delete frames by clicking the Split Clip icon on the CTI or pressing Ctrl+K, at the start and end of the video segment you want to delete, and click Delete. To know more, see Split clips and Trim Clips.

Adding a fast motion effect

To add a fast motion effect, follow steps 1-3 given in the previous section and continue with the following procedure.

1. Using the handles, the coloring-in part of the video is selected.

2. In the bottom panel, move the slider to any effect between Normal to Extremely Fast to apply a fast motion effect.

3. Click Done.

4. In the Quick mode screen, click  to view the applied effect. If you’re not happy with the effect applied you can click  and re-apply the effect.

In the Time Remapping window, you can find the following options:

Frame Blending Smoothen the appearance of frames in slow motion. Make sure to render the video afterwards in the Quick edit mode screen, by clicking Render.

Reset Remove the applied effects and start over.

Duration Length of the selected video segment, in seconds.

Easing In Slows down the transition while entering a frame.

Easing Out Gradually fastens the transition while leaving a frame.

This way, you can apply slow and fast motion effects to different segments of a single video. Once you’re happy with the effects applied, you can now export and share your video clip. To do this, click Export and Share in the upper-right corner of the screen. See Export and Share your video for more details.

Now that you know how to work with Time Remapping, are you excited to create fun videos using these effects? In true Christmas spirit, let’s allow our creative juices to flow, light up our ideas, and turn them into reality.

Want to learn more about what Adobe Premiere Elements can do? Take a look at the array of tutorials available to find out more creative edits and get the best out of your work.

Here are some useful links:

• Change clip speed and duration
• Time remapping – Guided edit mode
• Adobe Premiere Elements Learn and Support

Get cracking! Good luck!