how to save rendered clips and joining projects

[bsmiles]

I have book but don't see how parts of projects are joined to make final project.

I also would like to take a finished clip from one project and move it to another project.

Thankyou for your time in helping me
Ray

[Steve Grisetti]

It sounds like you have many short segments in separate projects that you'd like to mix together in one big project. How you do this depends on whether you're working on a high-definition or standard definition video project.

As it says in the book, you should output each finished segment as a DV-AVI using Share/Computer/AVI with the DV preset. You should then create a new project (using the DV project settings) and gather all of your finished DV-AVIs into it. Then you just place them all on the timeline.

Is that what you're trying to do?

[Bob]

As it says in the book, you should output each finished segment as a DV-AVI

Unless you are working with High def video and want to keep it high def. In which case you will want to output to high def using using Share/Computer/MPEG with an appropriate high definition preset and combine the segments in a high def project.

[Steve Grisetti]

Thanks, Bob.

This workflow is detailed on page 209 of the Premiere Elements 9 book and on page 341 of the combined Photoshop Elements/Premiere Elements 9 book, by the way.

[bsmiles]

thankyou.

there are two questions.

You have explained how to combine projects into long project. I'm not ready for that yet actually.

I am producing a long two hour project. The program gets bogged down when project is long so
I am trying to do it in segments. Lets say segments A B and C. What if want to take a clip from
B and add it to A?

How would I do that please. thanks

[RJ Johnston]

Hi.

You can't copy and paste from one project to another, so you will have to export the clip to your hard drive from project B, then import the clip from your hard drive into project A.

You need to know about the Work Area Bar so you can set the range you want to export in project B. There are tutorials on this. Go here and search for "Work Area Bar." http://www.muvipix.com/products.php?subcat_id=55

When you Share (export), select the checkbox to share only the range of the Work Area Bar.