Premiere Elements Transitions

[okie918]

New User working on a slide show for a wedding next weekend. I have 3 songs and 193 pictures. Is there a way to automatic set the duration so the slides end at the end the songs?

Is there a way to automatic insert transitions besides inserting one by one.

Thanks

Okie918

[ATR]

First, regarding the transitions placement all at one time.

Are you OK with setting a new transition? Just in case, you would go to the Transition Tab, click on it, and then select/highlight the transition that you want to use. At that point, right click the transition of choice and select "Set Selected Default Transition" from the drop down list".

Then at the start of the project, bring your photos into the Media Panel via Get Media. Then go to the Project/Media view. Select the photos that you want to use all with this transition.

Next right click anyone of the selected photos and select Create Slideshow from the drop down list.

Explore the sort options in the dialog that opens. I will not go off topic by going into that in more detail now. You will note that the transition that you set is named in the dialog. The default transition duration is set at 150 frames. You can also represent that as seconds which would equal 5 sec (based on 30 frames/second). When you click OK to this dialog, you will find your photos on the Timeline as a slideshow with transition and duration as detailed in the dialog.

It is one at time for replacing/removing transition(s) at this stage. But you can do that, but one at a time.

Regarding your photos/audio fit question, how long is each of the three music clips and are they just music or music with lyrics?

To be continued....

ATR

[ATR]

I am going to be away from the computer most of the day, so, in the absence of more details about your specific situation, I am going to offer a generic response to your fit audio to video question.

1. With an audio clip on the Timeline, you could use the Detect Beats feature (icon above Timeline) to place Unnumbered Markers (gray) along the Timeline according to how you set up the dialog. Then you could use the Create Slideshow feature with "Place Images/Clips at Unnumbered Markers" to do just that. (With that dialog, you have to choose between Unnumbered Markers and Transitions. You cannot do both this way.)

2. You can place your Unnumbered Markers manually, See the "Add Markers" icon above the Timeline (toward far right). An Unnumbered Marker will be placed at the location of the Timeline indicator (CTI). So, you could click the icon, move the CTI, etc. Another approach to doing this is the following. If you have a keypad to the right of the main keyboard, hit the * key to add an Unnumbered Marker, use the right arrow to advance across the Timeline, etc.

3. Adjustments and tweaking along the way may be needed. Shortening or stretching out of audio can create audio problems depending on how it is done and to what extent.

To be continued...

ATR

[pelewis]

I am using PRE 7 and could not get transitions to apply in the way you suggest. Although there is no "Create Slideshow". There is a create Instant Movie option which I find useless as it mucks with my order and disc menus.

I did set a default transition, but I haven't figured out how to apply it en masse.

[pelewis]

...continued. It also seems like I should be able to tell PRE just to use a random transition effect between every slide. Even lowly Powerpoint does that easily and that covers 99% of my need.

Picking 'em slide by slide and transition by transition is extremely tedious for a presentation of any size.

[ATR]

pelewis

This is going to be a multi part response.

First, let us clear away this "Create Slideshow Option" which IS THERE in Premiere Elements 7. Give the following a try on a mini run on the Premiere Elements 7 Timeline.

1. Bring photos into Premiere Elements 7 via Get Media (You find yourself in the Organizer). Do not drag the photos from Media to Timeline yet.
2. Click on "Edit", to the right of "Organizer", and get yourself into Project View.
3. Look to the bottom of the Project View section to where you will see a bunch of icons. At this point, you will probably be in the list view. Click on the second icon from the left which is named "Icon..". This will bring up a block placement of your thumbnails.
4. Arrange the photos in the order that you want on the Timeline. Then select them (blue frame around).
5. Right click any one of the highlighted thumbnails, and select CREATE SLIDESHOW from the drop down list.
6. In the Create Slideshow Dialog
a. Ordering: Leave as Sort Order (that will get those slideshow to the Timeline as you ordered them in the Project View blocks).
b. Still and Transition Times, set accordingly in either Frames or Seconds (basic thought: 30 frames/second for NTSC so 5 seconds = 150 frames).
c. In the Create Slideshow dialog, you will also see a check mark next to "Apply Default Transition (Cross Dissolve)". That is fine if that is the transition that you want to apply for all. If you want another default transition for all then....

Before you do this Create Slideshow Business, click on the Transition Tab at the top of the Edit interface. Highlight your choice for your own default transition, right click that transition, and select "Set As Default Transition". If you do all that, when you get to that option in the Create Slideshow dialog, it will show a check mark to "Apply Default Transition (whatever transition you set)".

So all this should:
1. Tell you how to find Create Slideshow option in Premiere Element 7
2. Tell you how to create a default transition "en masse" with this feature

You will find that the principles remain essentially the same from version to version. The big However is that the feature locations often change from version to version.

To be continued.......

ATR

[ATR]

Add on....

I forgot to ask "Are you using Photoshop Element 7 as well as Premiere Elements 7, or just Premiere Elements 7, in your creation plans?"

ATR