Panning In The Timeline

Can a track's panning parameters be accessed and effected while in the timeline? or does one have to be in the viewer only in order to be able to pan? And if you can pan while in the timeline . . . well . . . how is it done??
Thank you very much all in advance,
Javier Calderon

Ooh! Look what I found!
"To change the pan for a clip or clips:
1 In the Timeline, select the clip or clips you want to pan.
2 Choose Modify > Audio, then choose a pan option from the submenu.
Â Pan Left: Pans audio all the way to the left stereo output (Control-comma).
Â Pan Center: Centers audio evenly between left and right stereo outputs
(Control-period).
Â Pan Right: Pans audio all the way to the right stereo output (Control-/)."
I'm going to try it out and report back!
Thanks all again.

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I know how to adjust pan in the viewer, but is there actually a way to do it in the timeline also?

Martin, Thanks, but actually the sound mix on my project is presently quite complex as a clip by clip change in balance from left to right (depending on whether dialogue, sound effects, music, etc.) and I plan on adjusting the pan on each clip individually to especially retain the stereo effect of the music. I just thought it was sort of confusing that the help manual has a section heading on how to adjust pan in the timeline but then doesn't address the issue.
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Hi Fran,
The only way I know of doing it to all of your
clips in the timeline at once would be to select one
audio clip, and adjust the pan to center (which is
what I believe you want to do, based on your earlier
post). Then select all other audio clips in
the timeline and do Paste Attributes (of course,
having selected just the Pan attribute before
clicking OK in the Paste Attributes window.
For more info, look under "Copying, Pasting &
Removing Clip Attributes" in your FCE manual. In the
FCEHD manual it's in Ch. 16 "Editing in the
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Have the Clips, Lost the Timeline

I've read through the forums a bit, and have not found a specific answer to my problem. I'm sure it's out there, but I'm stressed so I'm throwing it out.
I run an old G4 Cube, updated to OSX 10.4. The 20 Gigabyte hard drive is pretty much full, so I have an 80 GB and a 500 GB external drive. I got a video camera a year ago, and finally got around to trying to make a movie from my clips in iMovie. I spent 10 hours on a 60 minute video over the past couple days.
I imported the clips no problem. I arranged them in the order I wanted, no problem. I added titles no problem. I was pretty proud of my work. I saved it and quit. Then when I come back to open it, I get a message saying "There are 125 stray clips in the project folder. Would you like to put them on the Clips Pane?" If I say no, the project is empty. If I say yes, all my clips, including the titles I created show up in the clips pane, but the timeline is blank. I assume I'd have to go back and re-order all the clips in the time line.
In the project folder is a quicktime movie that is my project up to the last save. It plays with all the clips and titles in the correct order. The problem is that I wanted to add a couple more clips and a couple more titles, and this quicktime movie is not editable.
The project folder is saved on an external HD, because the internal has only 4 GB free.
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If I understand you correctly, the project is on an external drive, right? If not, please say. And I assume there's sufficient free disk space on that drive to edit the project. At least 10 GB free. Preferably more.
If so, then you shouldn't have to move the project. It should be okay where it is.
iMovie 4 would sometimes "forget" all the clips in the project. Essentially, all the editing is discarded, leaving all the clips in the iMovie Trash. It sounds like that may have happened to your project. (This would sometimes happen when we emptied the iMovie trash.)
The project may be rescuable, however, without having to re-order the clips in the Timeline.
It's possible to import that small QuickTime movie you mentioned to a NEW iMovie project. The movie is a special kind of movie called a reference movie, which plays the clips in the Media folder of the project. When you import the movie to a new project, everything in the Timeline of Project A will arrive in Project B as a single clip. That's not ideal, but it may be good enough. It should let you finish the project.
There's one hurdle. iMovie 4 can import no more than 9 minutes of video at a time, and your movie is 60 minutes long. So it's necessary to split the QuickTime movie into 9-minute chunks that you can import. Our friends at Oakstreet Software offer a free Applescript script that will split the movie. QuickTime Pro is required to run the script, $30 from Apple.
http://www.oakstreetsoftware.com/qtscript.php3
60 minutes is about 13GB, so you will need at least 25GB free on whichever drive you create the new project.
Until everything is complete do NOT save the project or make any other changes. Saving it will replace the QuickTime movie with a new empty movie. It will be empty because there's nothing in the Timeline.
It should be okay to make a duplicate of the QT movie and store the duplicate somewhere outside the project. Work with that.
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TidyCup
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To highlight/select more than one clip at a time, hold down the Shift key of the computer main keyboard and then click on each clip that you want in the group selection
or
with your mouse cursor draw a rectangle around the clips that you want to select
2. Are you using the Premiere Elements 12/12.1 Expert workspace Pan and Zoom Tool? Or the pan or zoom presets under fx Effects/Presets/? With those you can do pan or zoom, not pan and zoom.
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Have you read the Adobe documentation on the Pan and Zoom Tool?
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premiereelements/using/WSeffff8bffc802084-494411db12fd35452dd- 8000.html
Please review and clarify and then we can get into greater details on this.
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ATR

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According to the Adobe installation information the trial version of Premiere Elements 11 is fully functional and the watermark is only present until a licence code is purchased.
I have edited AVI footage from a camcorder using the program with no problems (and no loss of audio sync) and the watermark is also present with this.
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What is odd is that the clip plays completely normally using WIndows Media Player and VLC Media player so I would expect Premiere Elements to be able to handle it without problems.
I think that there is some sort of bug in Premiere Elements' handling of mpe4 files (both in versions 10 and 11) rather than there being anything wrong with my computer.
Is there some way of communicating this directly to the Adobe programers ?
I enclose screenshots of the project settings:

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Not sure how to word this:
I want to do a simple tilt\pan on a still. I want to use the record button (I've got to do scores of these moves). I want the move to start a few seconds into the clip on the timeline. Is there a way, using the simple record button, that I can set the move to start a few seconds in? Instead of at the head of the clip on the timeline? It would make my life soooo much easier.
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