Adobe Premiere Elements

by Adobe

Product Features

• Combines creative control and reliability for home video editing
• Automates tedious editing tasks; context-sensitive How-Tos
• Easily transfer footage from DV camcorder directly to the timeline
• Quickly edit footage, add fun effects, and create custom DVDs
• Share videos on VHS, the Web, mobile phones, or Pocket PCs

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.8 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0002UDQ8Q
• Item model number: 25530001
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,211 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #95 in Software > Video & Music > Digital Video > Video Editing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Adobe Premiere Elements Video Edit Software for Windows - Digital Video professionals are well acquainted with the editing tools of Adobe Premiere, where it has enjoyed immense popularity. As we all have greater access to digital video equipment, be it a digital-camcorder or a digital-camera device, Premiere Elements is designed to help ignite the creative energies of the average person. With Auto Save features and multiple undos and redos, you can always go back to a previous version. Enhance your videos with hundreds of professional-quality special effects, including slow motion, warping, and picture-in-picture capability. Create exciting titles and credits. Add excitement to your videos by easily making your text and graphics fly and spin. Use preset TV-style effects or customize them to give your videos a look all their own. Integrated DVD burning makes it simple to create DVDs that are fun to share and convenient to watch.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

70 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most powerful video editor for hobbyists, November 7, 2004

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Home Movie Buff "Riptide360" (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Premiere Elements (CD-ROM)

Adobe's new Premiere Elements is a great video editing program! I was amazed at how rock solid it is.

It is easy to capture your video directly to the timeline, gives you real time editing even after applying all kinds of effects, a live TV preview to see your edits & effects (like you would see in a TV studio) and a great method for automatically generating your DVD with custom scene index.

The product included a complete manual, a full tutorial as well as a DVD with cool training movies on Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements. I was really impressed that it was easy to learn, but didn't limit my creativity. Every drag & drop effect is completely customizable.

If you want to mix photos and video in your project you should definitely check out the bundle of Photoshop Elements 3 plus Premiere Elements. The integrations is great. You can organize and edit your stills in Photoshop Elements and send them directly to Premiere Elements as a slideshow where you can do all kinds of cool pans & zooms (ala Ken Burns effect). You can also use Photoshop Element's shape tool to add thought bubbles and other cool effects into your video (think 60's style Batman special effects).

I found Premiere Elements to be much more stable than other video editing applications that I bought and have now discarded. I think you will too!

Some reviews worth googling:
Premiere Elements, Bob Turner
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Premiere Elements, Mike Langberg

92 of 103 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Does a lot of nice stuff but had a lot of problems., April 25, 2005

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Joe (Woodside, New York USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Premiere Elements (CD-ROM)

Let me start things off by saying that I have a Dell 8400 with a Pentium 4 3.2Ghz processor, dual hard drives at 7200 rpm with seek times below 10ms and 1GB DDR2 SDRAM of memory. More than enough power and speed to handle any video project.
You can do a lot with this software. Unfortunately there are a lot of bugs in it. I managed to burn a very small project, under a half hour in length, to get the feel of the product without any problems. It worked well. Then I moved on to a bigger project and that's when it happened. The program became a nightmare of problems. For example I mistakenly added two brightness adjustments to the same clip along with numerous other changes to my project. When I tried to save the project the program would not let me save it and just crashed. It does not tell you why it crashes and does not save the project. It took two weeks for me to figure this out. After you create your project you more than likely won't be able to burn it to a DVD. Originally I thought it was just me and that I was doing something wrong but after going to the Adobe Premiere Elements user forum I know it is definitely the product because too many other people have the same problem. There is a work around to the DVD burning problem by burning the project to a hard disk and then using some other software such as Nero to burn the DVD but who needs the headache. They need to do something fast to fix this software because they have a lot of irate customers who will likely buy some other product next time around if they don't. If I were you I would look around for something more stable. What good is the software if you can do a lot of great things but can't burn a DVD or save your project?

Since writing this original review after many, many hours of frustration and hard work I have finally determined the reason for my burning problem. It turned out to be my Mcafee Virus/Firewall software interfering with the burn. After speaking with Mcafee and adjusting some options everything has been great. No more burn problems. Because of the original burn problem I started to test various other burning software and have not found anything that comes close to Elements. I have changed my rating to four stars. The reason I don't give it five stars is because of the vague error messages Elements gives out when a problem occurs and there are some other minor bugs. The error messages are no help in solving problems and you don't get much help from Adobe either. If you try this product and have burning problems suspect interference from one or more of the other programs on your system.

36 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for DV, but..., November 1, 2004

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TheFamilyMan (Sunnyvale, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Premiere Elements (CD-ROM)

This program does not support anything but 720x480 resolution for NTSC or the corresponding PAL resolution. For DV project sources, this is a non-issue. If you've captured footage from your analog camcorder at 352x480 and give it to PE as imported media, it assumes that you want your final project to have a distorted picture with wide black margins on the sides, i.e. it assumes your source has 'missing' pixels. If your using PE for the straight and narrow, (DV in/out or DVD out) it's probably fine. If you're looking for a general purpose movie editor that accepts a wide variety of input formats and has the flexibility to create a wide variety of output formats, don't buy PE.