I have Adobe Premiere Elements 8, Version 8.0 (M178 - 9/8/2009)[R]. I also have Steve's book "Guide to Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements 8 dated on the last page as 5 January 2010.
Because I rarely work with lipync I lay (and adjust) my audio track separately using Goldwave and then copy it to my PRE8 project. For the first time I have a lipsync situation from which I want to remove some background noise and do other adjustments to the audio track.
I have been using Steve's book a lot and have found it so far very useful but now have come up with a blank.
Pages 309 and 310 show illustrations which I can not reproduce. For example, when I compare my screen with the page 309 illustration, my screen does not have a freeze-frame from the selected clip (and I did have one selected) in the top left corner, the button for "Apply" is greyed out and when I drag an effect onto the clip my mouse pointer turns into a red circle with a line through it and it is not applied. I can not get the illustration on page 310 at all. Left click and double click on an effect produces nothing and right click produces a drop-down menu with the only options Add to Favorites; New Presets Folder; Thumbnail View and List View.
Your guidance on how I can get this to work will be much appreciated.