Premiere Elements nine questions

Hi, i just downloaded elements9, and im new to adobe software and everytime i put a video into the section at the bottem, the video lags a lot and slows down the whole program, the file the videos are in are WMV, does it need another format? i dont know if this is something that'll pass or what but i'd love to get an answer soon,
also, while im still on here,
i looked threw the "Help" section for beginners, it's not exactly all that helpful, can someone send a video please on the basics of what im doing?
i can pick up on things easy but i need to know how to start all this from a new project and all the way to converting it to a file for youtube,

I would not recommend using WMVs as your source video. They'll bog the whole program down.
What kind of camcorder is your video coming from? There's probably a much more efficient workflow that won't require nearly so much rendering.
Meantime, if you're looking to learn this basics of this program, check out my free 8-part Basic Training tutorials at Premiere Elements support site Muvipix.com.
And, if you'd like more detailed, step-by-step instruction, you can check out my books.

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This is a pre-newbie – let’s say “virgin” question. If there is an answer already posted elsewhere, please send me a link.
I’m about to install Premiere Elements 9 to do some clip editing and animation from still images. This would be my first attempt to edit clip or do some animation from still images, besides using Windows Media Maker with my HS students. However, I have been a pretty serious photographer for 20+ years with 1,000’s of images which I now work on in PS CS5 Extended and Lightroom 3. I use Adobe Bridge and LR library to catalogue and organize my images. I’d like to continue to use AB / LR Library to organize my new clips and projects. From reading Bill’s posts, it seems I can use Adobe Bridge, copy my original file, resize in Photoshop, and save in a new folder to use for a Premiere project. This would seem to be most intuitive way for me to work. I already have keywords, metadata, actions in PS… etc. But I think Bill is using Premiere Pro, while I’ll be installing Premiere Elements, which comes bundled with Elements Organizer. Do I need to install or use Elements Organizer? What are the advantages/disadvantages or EO? I guess I’m a little worried about installing the programs and having EO automatically acquire images using presets/defaults that I don’t want to use as well as issues with subfolders, etc. I'm running Windows 7.
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ziggycat4 wrote:
I guess I’m a little worried about installing the programs and having EO automatically acquire images using presets/defaults that I don’t want to use as well as issues with subfolders,
EO doesn't do much with the files themselves, just maintains links to the sources.
For folders you are best to use the folder view in EO to move them as it doesn't keep track of folder locations when changed in Windows Explorer. From the File options in Bridge I think that is pretty much the same.
ziggycat4 wrote:
I would like to get as much input as possible on the advantages/disadvantages of using EO vs say Adobe Bride from others who use Elements Organizer.
Any insights would be appreciated.
Can anyone who has used both EO and AB comment on how EO handles missing (hidden) files, syncing issues, computer hanging up or crashing....etc?
I've only messed around a little with Bridge. But to me it seems lightening fast by comparison to EO. The features Albums and Tags in EO seem much the same as Collections and Keywords in Bridge.
EO has Face Recognition abilities - getting more sophisticated in each version. I've not seen this feature in Bridge.
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Bridge only seems to link to Photoshop.
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