Another great find, Robert! Thanks.

Great solutions, Vernon! Thanks for jumping in with this. I am a bit concerned about slushparlor's only having 30 gigs of free space left on your drive also. That should be enough for a small project with some basic editing -- but it is pretty tight. Particularly since this is your C drive AND your ...

For those of you who don't know the play, "Tamara" was a very popular experimental play that ran for years in Los Angeles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_%28play%29 You watched the play by following one of ten characters around a house as they interacted with the other characters. Dep...

The old movie effect in Premiere Elements 4 is very nice, especially because it's so customizable. And so is the one in Windows MovieMaker. Beyond that, remember to think big! Because cameras and film were relatively new 100 years ago, actors tended to overact, they wore too much make-up and every s...

I love seeing what a diverse variety of people we attract here! Cool website, chooks! We'd love to hear more about you and your work and about some of the video work you do or are planning to do. We're also well represented in Australia. Where do you live? You might have a Muvipix neighbor! Welcome ...

This is very cool, Charles! Thanks for sharing it. Hyperdrama is a very interesting concept. (I remember a play that ran for years in LA called "Tamara.") And, in a world in which the internet allows us to read a story through a series of hyperlinks rather than in a linear fashion, it's a ...

1. Keep digging! You'll find hundreds of of useful media and tips here! 2. We've not been able to find a publisher for an updated Premiere Elements in a Snap book. Though we're not taking it personally; as I said, that's the way the consumer software manual market is going. So we're putting all that...

I just got word from Chuck's wife that things are rougher than expected for old Chuck. It seems the reason he was having breathing problems was because he had a collapsed lung. I'm not exactly sure what that means or why it happens, but they took him into surgery and re-inflated it. (Again, I'm not ...

You should at least be able to import the video files into a Premiere Elements project, even if they arent the perfect format for editing. Are you using the Get Media feature to import the video (as opposed to File/Open)? The better solution though would be to convert those MPEGs to DV-AVIs before y...

Adobe's Classroom in a Book series is an excellent overview of the software, explained with a handful of basic tutorials, and most of what's in the version 2 book will work just fine in version 4. There are a few differences, but the principles are the same. Have you seen my overview of version 4? T...

And, of course, it also helps to know how you're capturing the video into your computer and which version of Premiere Elements you're using.

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Well, you can work through my troubleshooting steps and, if you'll post your results in as much detail as possible for each step, we can probably diagnose the problem and recommend solutions. But let's please do that in a new thread rather than tagging on so deep into this one, okay? Here are the tr...

Stop it, John. You're making me blush.

As I said in my e-mail response, it can be a challenge to add video data where the original video data has been recorded incorrectly -- but I suggested Barbara post here in the hopes that our panel of experts might have a suggestion. As I also said, Barbara, it might also help if you told us more ab...

With slideshows, the most common error is from loading photos directly from a digital camera, which can be as much as 25 times the size of a video frame. You can create DVDs of slideshows pretty quickly and easily if you ensure that all the photos are no larger than 1000x750 pixels in size. And, of ...