Premiere Elements 13.1 In Depth Look

Today Adobe has released the 13.1 Update for Premiere Elements 13. Most of us already know that, have downloaded and installed the 13.1 update via an opened projects Help Menu/Update, and are busy exploring the 13.1 new features which it describes
Release Notes Photoshop 13.1 update
Sample text for fonts
Quick access to Instant movie and video story creation
Pan and zoom for images in video story
Frequently used panel
ISO image creation for disc burn failures
But going beyond that, I wanted to go deeper into what the 13.1 Update offers the user of 13.
Tonight I wanted to take a deeper look at what has been done and not done. Early
reports seem to indicate that the Motion Tracking feature shows no improvements in 13.1.
In my initial look at Motion Tracking in 13.1, it is working overall - questionable better, not worse. More looks on this needed.
And another has posted improvement with working with a Wacom pen and tablet device in 13.1.
My work in progress on this 13.1 can be found
ATR Premiere Elements Troubleshooting: PE 13: Adobe Releases Premiere Elements 13.1 Update
We will look for other properties of 13.1. If anyone has discovered how to disable the automatic pan and zoom
in Video Story, please let us know.
To be continued.
ATR

There is a disable pan and zoom option for the new Video Story feature after all. Although the dialog showing its existence was shown in the document cited in the previous post, the route to get there was not.
Here is what I found...After opening Video Story feature and selecting a theme and feature assets, I will subsequently get to the section Story Assets where I drag the assets into individual Chapter spaces. After that is done, I click Next which results in "Processing". After the "Processing" is completed, I get a view for "Detail View". I needed to switch from "Detail View" to "Overview" to see a layout of all the Chapters, each Chapter having options which included Edit Chapter.
a. In the Overall view, I went to the Chapter of interest and clicked on the "Edit Chapter" button at the bottom of that Chapter display.
b. The first screenshot displays what I saw after hitting "Edit Chapter". When I brought the mouse cursor in contact with the picture of interest, the blue icon pointed to in the first screenshot appeared. And, when I double clicked that blue icon,
I am presented with the display where I can change the pan and zoom options for one or all.
Please see second screenshot below.
ATR

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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/415317?tstart=0
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1. Music files and error message...are these music files from iTunes? If so, convert them to .wav in iTunes to convert them to wav version, and then import the .wav version into Premiere Elements 13 project using Premiere Elements 13 Expert workspace's Add Media/Files and Folders/Project Assets from where you drag the wav version to the Soundtrack.
The following are the instructions for the iTunes converting
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT1550
If any problems with the instructions, please let me know, and I will go through them with you.
2. How you set up the project and the export settings that you select greatly influence your end product result.
a. What are the properties of the source media?
b. What project preset did you (manually) or the project (automatically) set to match the properties of the source media.
(If you do not know, please tell us what you see for the readings of Editing Mode, Timebase, Frame Size, Pixel Aspect Ratio - even
if the fields look grayed out.)
c. For your export...Publish+Share/Computer/and then what? And what preset? Did you use the default settings of the preset or did you
customize the export settings of the preset under the preset's Advanced Button/Video Tab and Audio Tab?
Let us start here and then decide what next.
Thanks.
ATR

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Sherry,
You might want to try G-Spot with the .MOV files. It works great with .AVI's, most .MPEG's, and not quite so well with .MOV's and .WMV's. Still, there might be some info that would help.
In general, I have not had problems with most .MOV files. Adobe even ships these on DVD along with their "Premiere Classroom in a Book," series. However, a few have had an issue, or two, but that could be from not having a working version of QT on their computer, or similar.
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Hi, I'm looking for a online private tutor for teaching me Adobe Premiere Elements 8 through remote cessions and Skype. Willing to pay a good price for good tuition! Please contact me asap if you can help. Thanks, J Sussholz

Hi,
I'm looking for a online private tutor for teaching me Adobe Premiere Elements 8 through remote cessions and Skype.
Willing to pay a good price for good tuition!
Please contact me asap if you can help.
Thanks,
J Sussholz

Jacqui,
I stongly believe that Steve has given you the best advice. Actually, it's the same advice that I would have given you, if I had seen your post first!
I can verify that his books will give you more info, and in a more usable form, than tutoring, or even in-class, hands-on schooling will. Almost anything that can be done with the program (he also has a companion book for Photoshop Elements, which is often bundled with PrE) is covered in easy to understand detail.
After reading through, and working along, his second bit of advice, Muvipix, is also sound. Between this, and Muvipix fora (Community tab), there have been very few questions that could not be answered. Muvipix also is a great resource for additional articles on how things are done, plus tutorials.
I also recommend that one take an hour and read through both the FAQ and Tips & Tricks articles, found to the right of the PrE forum main page. I would read Steve's book first, so terms, etc. would be most clear.
There are two on-line training sites, that get great reviews: www.lynda.com and www.ltotaltraining.com. I have not subscribed to either, but have used the materials furnished from them with various Adobe programs. I also have several of the lynda.com books on various programs, and they are well-written. Now, they are NOT one-on-one tutoring, which is what you are looking for. They also probably do not cover PrElements, but that is just my guess. If they do, they would be another good source of training, though it's through tutorials, and not direct instruction.
This is just my 02¢'s worth of thought.
Good luck,
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