"Workspace Basics" dated October 4, 2018 is one of the Adobe Premiere Elements 2019 documents published online at the time of the release of the Premiere Elements 2019 latest version. The document details include those for the 2019 revised Quick workspace as well as those for the prior 2018 Quick workspace. See HERE. There is no mention of the picture-in-picture effect in this document for either version 2019 or 2018. And, the latest Adobe document found to address create a picture-in-picture overlay in Quick view was dated July 28, 2017. See HERE and its sections for "Create a picture-in-picture overlay in the Quick view" as well as "Create a picture-in-picture overlay in Expert view".
ISSUE*
The details for "Create a picture-in-picture overlay in Quick view" were found applicable to Premiere Elements 2018 but not Premiere Elements 2019. No way was found in those details to create a picture-in-picture effect in Quick workspace of Premiere Elements 2019. I had to go to the Premiere Elements 2019 Expert workspace in order to create a picture-in-picture effect in a project. These studies were done with Premiere Elements 2018 and 2019 on Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit, Windows 10 Home 64 bit, and Windows 10 Professional 64 bit.
DETAILS
Premiere Elements 2018 Quick workspace picture in picture workflow that will or will not work in Premiere Elements 2019 Quick workspace
STEP 1
Add Media/Files and Folders to import background image (photo or video) with the Open command of the Add Media dialog. Instead of Add Medial/Files and Folder route to the background image, Windows key + E followed by selected image drag and drop into Quick workspace monitor.
Note: worked in 2018 and 2019.
STEP 2
Windows key + E** to bring up Windows Explorer/File Explorer and then navigation to photo or video wanted as overlay. Drag of selected image into monitor of Premiere Elements 2018 Quick workspace monitor, immediately followed by Picture in Picture pop up which included the picture-in- picture option.
Note: worked in 2018, but in 2019 there was no pop up with picture-in-picture option, and the end result was the image in its own scene space and not as an overlay for the background image in its scene space.
STEP 3
Clicked on picture-in-picture option which immediately placed overlay on background image and generated a Picture in Picture dialog which included settings for overlay duration, inserted at, ends at. Clicked Done when finished.
Note: worked in 2018, not applicable to 2019 since no Picture in Picture option in Step 2.
SOLUTION
No explanation nor solution for the above results was found for the Premiere Elements 2019 Quick workspace behavior related to the picture-in-picture effect. Pending further insights into this situation, two workarounds used for this 2019 Quick problems were
- Better to do picture-in-picture effect in Premiere Elements 2019 Expert workspace - worked for video-in-video, photo-in-video, video-in-photo, and photo-in-photo.
- But possible in Premiere Elements 2019 Quick workspace, to do opened Titler's Text Menu/Add Image (See HERE) - worked for photo-in-video and photo-in-photo.
More information as it becomes available related to
- This Premiere Elements 2019 issue
- Adobe documentation and update needed
- User misunderstanding
- Other
COMMENTARY
There is a fine line between "revised workspace" and "feature removed from a workspace". I am still exploring the difference.
FYI note - Adobe's acknowledged list of "no longer supported by Premiere Elements 2019" includes
- Flash files
- DVD (Mac only)
- Quick time format
- Direct share on Facebook
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*As an aside note, I am also having problems with opening Guided lessons in the Premiere Elements 2019 Quick workspace. See HERE.
**This step also worked by using cascading windows technique instead of Windows key + E.
