Editing a clip without using in a project

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July 7, 2021
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I am using Premiere Elements 15. I simply want to edit video clips to upload to Adobe Stock, such as mute the audio and do some cutting. Elements always creates a project with an extension of "prel". I don't want a project. I just want my edited video to be in the file folder that it was in originally, just like they are when I correct photos with Photoshop. I can't seem to figure out how to do this.

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Bill Sprague

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Video editing works more like Lightroom's non distructive workflow. The original is never changed. From it you make creative edits and export a new version. Like photographers, video editors want editing tools to make improvements.

There is an exception. Google for "smart rendering video editing software". A few things will come up for reading. I've never tried it, but "TMPGEnc MPEG Smart Renderer" is often mentioned in other forums for what you say you want to do.

John T Smith

Community Expert

You must have a project, since the project file contains the commands to edit your video file

When you are done editing, you use the share function to create a new video file

Go to http://www.pacifier.com/~jtsmith/PrE2021.txt
- As of 07-05-21 my notes file contains 30+ links to YouTube tutorials
- Rather than taking up a long forum page, you can click my link and look
- Plain text file so you will have to copy-paste the links into your web browser

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