Credits

[Johnny]

I was using PRE 7 and had figured out the easiest way to create scrolling credits at the end of my movie. Steve had given me a really good tip: Rather than clicking the "T" on the monitor panel to go into the Titler, go to the Edit tab and click Titles. As I show you in my book, this takes you to the title templates area before you go to the Titler. What Chuck posted above is a rolling title from these templates.
He had also told me to choose Blue Note credits there in order to achieve the desired result. It worked out great, but now I just started using PRE 10, and in the Edit tab, there is no option for Titles.

Anyone know how to handle this?

[Steve Grisetti]

Try widening the Tasks panel (where the various tabs are). Sometimes if your monitor resolution is too low or this panel isn't wide enough, some things can get cut off.

But, on the Edit tab, it's right between Transitions and Themes.

[Johnny]

Thanks, Steve. I got it!

I meant to ask about something else. Whenever I've tried to render an area, when I hit enter there, Premiere Elements just starts the film from the start and begins to play it. I don't recall ever having this problem before. Any idea what it could be?

[Steve Grisetti]

First, make sure that the Work Area Bar covers the area of your timeline you want to render.

Then go to Edit/Preferences and make sure that the option to Play Movie After Render is unchecked.

[Johnny]

Steve,

The Work Area Bar covers the area that I want to render.

When I go to Edit/Preferences/General, it shows "Play work area after rendering previews." I took the check mark off that, but the same thing is happening.

[Steve Grisetti]

I have heard of this happening before. It could be a bug. I'm not sure what's up, Johnny.

Make sure you've got the latest version of Quicktime. But other than that, I'm not sure what causes this. Sorry.

[Johnny]

Could the problem be due to the fact that I have just around 50 GB free on the hard drive?

In the computer's hard drive I have a folder for Premiere Elements 7 projects. That folder takes up 100 GB of space on the hard drive. When I try to open a file from the folder, Premiere Elements gives the following message:

File Import Failure
Error Message
This type of file is not supported, or the required codec is not installed.

I have the files saved in the external hard drive as well. When I try to open either of the files that are in the external hard drive, they open in Premiere Elements (as completed projects).

Do I still need the files in the computer's hard drive in order to access the projects in the future, or is just having them in the external hard drive enough?

[Steve Grisetti]

I don't know but, from your explanation, that sounds like the case.

BTW, technically you don't OPEN video files with Premiere Elements. You IMPORT them into a project. That's a very important distinction to keep in mind because using the wrong term can be confusing when you're asking for advice.

But that said, if you can import a video from your external hard drive but not from your C drive then, yes, I'd say that's a good indicator that you're getting too low on space to edit from your C drive.

Ideally, with video editing on a PC, only your program files are on your C drive. Your project and media files are on a second drive.

Ideally, that's a second internal drive, since the data flows fast between drives. But it is possible to edit to and from an external drive. I can do it on my Mac, but my PC isn't fast enough to do so.

[Johnny]

I noticed that there was a light grey vertical bar appearing right after the Universal Countdown Leader in the Timeline, just before the movie begins. I left-clicked on it and then it was gone. Then I was finally able to render. However, rendering only went up to where the grey vertical bar moved, just 4:59 seconds later into the movie. Then I can't render further.

Is that bar not supposed to be there?

[Chuck Engels]

If that is the work area bar then everything is working as it should.
The work area bar should cover your whole project while you are working on your video.
It needs to cover the whole area you want to render.

There are two subscriber videos on the Work Area Bar and I'm sure that Steve put something about it in the basic training tutorials, those are free

[Johnny]

Thanks, Chuck.

I couldn't find a free tutorial on that, but I seem to have figured out the problem rendering with a combination of information from Steve's earlier response, his book, and the images from the PRE 10 User Guide.

Thank you both for your responses.

[Chuck Engels]

Hi Johnny,
There is a free 8 part Basic Training tutorial
http://muvipix.com/products.php?searchp ... =0&btn.y=0

There should be something in there about the work area bar I think. Is that what you were having problems with?

[Peru]

a light grey vertical bar

If that is the work area bar then everything is working as it should.

But isn't the WAB horizontal?

[Dave McElderry]

Good catch Peru. The gray vertical bar thing has been discussed in other threads. I've experienced it myself in V10, but only in passing. I don't think it's been established exactly what it is, but I suspect a programming glitch. If I'm interpreting this thread correctly, I suspect that when he clicked on the phantom gray vertical bar he actually set the WAB to end at that point on the timeline. An unintended side effect.

[Chuck Engels]

If you look at the screen shots on this page
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro ... 7cd7a.html
you will see the work area bar and another bar above that on the timeline, this is Premiere Pro.
Is this the bar you are talking about?