saving

[mflusser]

Is there a way of saving video segments within PRE 11? Steve, I bought your book but couldn't find an answer. This seems to me very important. I want to edit one segment and save it. Then start on another segment. Then ultimately, put them all together. I tried saving the sequence in a "new project" but then I learned the timeline will not let you combine projects.

[Peru]

Welcome to Muvipix.
Somebody will be along with more specific instructions.
Until then...

Premiere Elements doesn't have sequences, only Premiere Pro does. From PPro Help:
In Premiere Pro, you specify the settings for each sequence, trim your clips, and assemble clips in sequences.
Every Premiere Pro project can contain one or more sequences, and each sequence in a project can have settings different from the settings for the others. For example, one project can contain one sequence optimized for 30-fps widescreen DV assets, another for standard 24-fps DV assets, and still another for HDV footage.

What you need to do is export your timeline to DV AVI or some other intermediate and then bring it into the timeline of a new project.

[momoffduty]

Just wanted to say Welcome to Muvipix! And like Peru said you can export segments of a project and then import them in a new master project.

[mflusser]

Ok. Thanks. Not The News Was Hoping To hear.

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[Steve Grisetti]

Hi, mflusser. And thanks for supporting the book!

You can certainly output segments of your project, if you'd like. Or you can work on it in short pieces and combine those pieces into a finished movie.

The trick is outputting each segment in a video format that can be loaded into another project. Then you just combine each of those short segments into a longer movie.

How you do this depends on the format of the movie you're working on. For standard definition video and DVDs, there's the DV-AVI. For regular high-def, there's the 1920x1080 MPEG. And for AVCHD video video, there's the 1920x1080 AVCHD M2T file.

These all should be in the chapter on outputting your movie, in a sub-section called How to Output Your Video for Use in Another Project. (I'm sorry. I'm out of the country right now and working from memory, so that may not be the exact title for it.)

But if that's what you want to do -- work on short segments and then combine the finished parts into a longer master project -- that's how it's done.

Are you able to find this sub-chapter?