Loading motions to computer

[Angela in Phx]

I'm not sure if this is in the right area but I am looking for a tip on how to upload those great background motion folders directly where they belong and then unzipping them.

I am running Vista Business/Premiere3 and am a darn proud member. I uploaded a couple other motions altho it went into a different file and then I extracted from there (it was under application and virtual store) to the en in Adobe Premier 3.

Tonite I let the motion folders load and directed them to the en folder under Program Files Premier 3 (hoping to avoid finding them in the other folder and extracting all to the proper area) but when I go to extract all or move it I get the flwg error message: Cannot Complete the Compressed (zipped) Folders Extraction Wizard. Access to the folder is denied. Before you can extract files, you must change the permissions for this compressed (zipped) folder.

Thank you for your assistance and if I don't get back to you it is because I will probably be at work by the time I read this response. So I'll let you know tomorrow nite how your solution, and I know you have one , works.

Angela

[Steve Grisetti]

Wow! A "proud member"! All right, Angela!

Anyway, there's no reason that I know of to "install" these motion backgrounds in any PROGRAM FILES folder. They're just media. To use them in Premiere Elements, you just save them to your computer and then right-click on them and select Extract. This will unzip the file. Doesn't matter where you unzip it to, as long as you can find it later.

Then open your Premiere Elements project and Add Media. Browse to the motion background and import it into your project and then just drag it to the timeline.

That should be all there is to it.

[Angela in Phx]

Thank you for your help. As usual I'm working on 2 different projects so didn't give this a try yet. I knew it had to be a lot easier than what I was going through.
I will try your solution this weekend and see what happens. This is my first Version 3 project and I missed out on Version 2 so right now, everything is still a bit of an adventure.