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Incredible movies, effortlessly! Adobe Premiere Elements 9--the newest version of the #1 selling video-editing software--delivers powerful, automated moviemaking options, professional-quality effects, and optimized HD and SD editing. Share quickly via convenient web DVD viewing experiences and on disc, mobile devices, Facebook, and YouTube. Automatically organize and help protect all your video clips and photos. And now enjoy a complete solution for videos whether you use Microsoft Windows or Mac OS.
Quickly find, view, and protect your clips and photos in a powerful media-management hub.
Choose automated moviemaking options to help take the work out of video editing.
Easily add motion graphics, effects, transitions, disc menus, and more.
Easily share your movies on virtually any screen, from mobile devices to HD flat screen TVs and YouTube.
Now enjoy a complete solution for videos whether you use Microsoft Windows or Mac OS.
Do It All With One Powerful Yet Easy-to-Use Product
Use Adobe Premiere Elements 9 software for all your video needs. Import and organize your video clips, and edit them together yourself or use automated options. Make your movies look like professional productions with amazing special effects, sound, titles, and Hollywood-style motion menus. Quickly share via the web, disc, and virtually anywhere else. Help protect your media with automatic online backup and 2GB of free storage--and view videos and photos virtually anywhere you are.
Create a Polished Movie Instantly
Take advantage of creative techniques from Hollywood directors with InstantMovie, which automatically edits together your best clips with coordinated music, titles, effects, and transitions from your choice of movie theme. Customize anything to get just the results you envision. All-new themes are included.
Save Time With Automated Options
Make movies with less effort. Adobe Premiere Elements can automatically fix shaky footage and color and lighting problems, trim away all but your best footage, and balance audio elements to give you professional-quality sound throughout your movie.
Quickly Find the Clips You're Looking For
Want to find your best video clips or clips that meet a particular set of criteria? The Auto-Analyzer automatically tags your footage and photos for quality and interest, and a variety of smart search options makes it easy to zero in on just what you need.
Make Movies With Drag-and-Drop Ease
Create your story fast in the Sceneline, an easier alternative to the more traditional video-editing Timeline. Make your movie by simply dragging and dropping thumbnails of your clips, transitions, and effects.
Edit and Preview in One Convenient Place
Edit and view your movie in one convenient place--the large Monitor window--where you can easily trim and split clips, drop filters and effects right on a frame, create fun picture-in-picture effects, type titles and text right on the screen, and more.
Add Professional-Quality Effects and Transitions
Add entertaining graphics that automatically follow the action in your movie. Easily combine elements from different scenes for entertaining results. And add visual appeal with hundreds of amazing special effects and TV-style transitions, including several all-new options.
Energize Your Movies With Music
Use SmartSound to add a variety of musical soundtracks that automatically adjust to perfectly match the length of your movie. Even synchronize scenes to the beat of your soundtrack.
Get Creative Inspiration
Bring your ideas to life with relevant how-tos that appear just when you need them. New how-tos help you explore creative possibilities.
Conveniently Share Your Movie and Enjoy the Latest Technology
Follow easy steps to create your movie once and then share it on disc, the web, or mobile devices--even treat friends and family to an interactive web DVD viewing experience. Share on high-quality HD or Blu-ray Disc so you can enjoy your movie on virtually any screen, from your iPod to your HD flat screen TV.
Top New Benefits
Share in an Exciting New Way on the Web
Debut your movie with a convenient, interactive web DVD viewing experience. Easily share your movie—complete with a scene index and chapter menus—on Photoshop.com or your own website.
Quickly Share Videos and Photos on Facebook
Conveniently share videos and photos on Facebook directly from the Organizer, which automatically optimizes your media so it looks its best.
Easily Import From Compact Camcorders and More
Easily bring in video from compact camcorders like Flip cameras and DSLR still cameras. Easily fix audio problems—Easily reduce background noise and fix problems with audio volume and clarity so your movie has high-quality sound from start to finish.
Jazz up the Action
Give your movie an eye-catching cartoon look. Choose from a variety of animation styles, and customize as you wish.
Enjoy Optimized HD Editing
Experience fluid responsiveness and high performance when editing video, even HD.
Now Available for Mac
If you use a Mac for your videos, you can now enjoy the power and simplicity of Adobe Premiere Elements software. Choose automated options to effortlessly create incredible movies or enhance your movies with professional-quality effects and Hollywood-style motion menus. Then share your movies on the web, disc, and virtually everywhere else, help protect them with automatic online backup and 2GB of free storage, and view them virtually anywhere you are.
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 & Adobe Premiere Elements 9 software delivers powerful options that make it easy to use photos and videos together and share in entertaining ways. Now enjoy a complete solution for photos and videos whether you use Windows or Mac OS.
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143 of 149 people found the following review helpful
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I'll start off by stating that I am just an everyday dad who wants to take the HD videos he shoots of family vacations, kids' birthdays, fishing trips, etc and transfer them to DVD without any loss in quality. I am not out to produce the next "Citizen Kane" nor am I out to challenge Steven Spielberg to a directorial throwdown.
I do not want to have to convert files, combine files, or compress files. I just want to transfer my family memories to disc for future viewing. If I can also chop out those moments when I forgot to turn the camcorder off and you get a good view of what footwear everyone was wearing that day, even better. If I can also include a title screen, with a neat little visual of what's on that disc, with an area where you click "play" to start the video, better still.
This sounds like a fairly simple request, no? Nevertheless, I have had trouble finding video editing software that will do this in a straightforward and simple fashion. I have bought Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus and Corel VideoStudio Express 2010. I have also tried Windows Movie Maker and have downloaded trials of PowerDirector 8 Ultra and Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum. They all either produced bad images, required video conversions, froze up, locked up, or spit up. As far as my hardware, my PC consists of a Quad Core i7 chip with six GB of RAM and with Windows 7 64-bit.
I was scanning Amazon one day and noticed that Adobe Premier had among the highest reviews when compared to the other options and was decently priced (with a rebate). After my other experiences, I decided to download their trial version before I made the purchase. I was elated with the results.
Finding the files (which were raw, .mts files that I had transferred from an SD card to my hard drive) and loading them into the workspace was simple. Arranging them was equally simple (oldest to newest, which I chose, or newest to oldest). Burning them to Blu-ray disc (I have both a Blu-ray disc burner and a standard disc burner on my PC) was also an easy process. In no time I had the disc produced and was watching video with stunning clarity on my 67-inch HD television.
Here are some things to note:
1. Processing time for 45 minutes of HD video took about two hours. The software has to process the files prior to burning, which takes a while. It seems like slow going sometimes, but just leave it alone and be patient.
2. When it actually starts burning the disc, for some reason the process bar for this activity stays at 1 percent. Just ignore this...it is actually making progress, although it doesn't show it on the screen.
3. If you load the trial version, the disc you make will have an ugly black bar across the middle of the entire video, indicating that it was made from a trial version of Adobe Premiere. I found this annoying, but understandable. The other trial versions I tried did not do this.
4. I saved my trial project, and then opened it with the Premiere version that I bought. The full-version software retrieved it and the black bar was gone. So, if you do a project with the trial version and later buy the software, save your project to avoid re-work.
5. On my second DVD, I managed to put in a title screen and insert captions (e.g. "On our way camping," "Arriving at our hotel in Naples) just by fumbling around. This software is especially easy to navigate.
6. I like the fact that Adobe Premier has so many resources...some online, that I have not yet explored, and some in book form, including this one that was just released. Adobe Premiere Elements 9 Classroom in a Book I may end up getting more involved in this as a hobby than I thought I ever would or could. I am optimistic about this since thus far the fundamentals have proven so user friendly.
In summary, I highly recommend this product against all others. It is great for the novice, the "point-and-shoot" user, and apparently will allow you to gain more expertise with practice. Time will tell.
Lastly, I apologize for the lengthy review, but after trying so many editing software choices out there I am really pleased I finally found one that works, works well, and is so user friendly. My only gripe at this point is that by the time I downloaded the trial version and tested it, the price had increased by $10 when I went to make the purchase! Even at that, though, I still consider it a good value.
If my opinion changes (for better or worse) as I continue to work my way through this software, I will update the review.
I do not want to have to convert files, combine files, or compress files. I just want to transfer my family memories to disc for future viewing. If I can also chop out those moments when I forgot to turn the camcorder off and you get a good view of what footwear everyone was wearing that day, even better. If I can also include a title screen, with a neat little visual of what's on that disc, with an area where you click "play" to start the video, better still.
This sounds like a fairly simple request, no? Nevertheless, I have had trouble finding video editing software that will do this in a straightforward and simple fashion. I have bought Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus and Corel VideoStudio Express 2010. I have also tried Windows Movie Maker and have downloaded trials of PowerDirector 8 Ultra and Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum. They all either produced bad images, required video conversions, froze up, locked up, or spit up. As far as my hardware, my PC consists of a Quad Core i7 chip with six GB of RAM and with Windows 7 64-bit.
I was scanning Amazon one day and noticed that Adobe Premier had among the highest reviews when compared to the other options and was decently priced (with a rebate). After my other experiences, I decided to download their trial version before I made the purchase. I was elated with the results.
Finding the files (which were raw, .mts files that I had transferred from an SD card to my hard drive) and loading them into the workspace was simple. Arranging them was equally simple (oldest to newest, which I chose, or newest to oldest). Burning them to Blu-ray disc (I have both a Blu-ray disc burner and a standard disc burner on my PC) was also an easy process. In no time I had the disc produced and was watching video with stunning clarity on my 67-inch HD television.
Here are some things to note:
1. Processing time for 45 minutes of HD video took about two hours. The software has to process the files prior to burning, which takes a while. It seems like slow going sometimes, but just leave it alone and be patient.
2. When it actually starts burning the disc, for some reason the process bar for this activity stays at 1 percent. Just ignore this...it is actually making progress, although it doesn't show it on the screen.
3. If you load the trial version, the disc you make will have an ugly black bar across the middle of the entire video, indicating that it was made from a trial version of Adobe Premiere. I found this annoying, but understandable. The other trial versions I tried did not do this.
4. I saved my trial project, and then opened it with the Premiere version that I bought. The full-version software retrieved it and the black bar was gone. So, if you do a project with the trial version and later buy the software, save your project to avoid re-work.
5. On my second DVD, I managed to put in a title screen and insert captions (e.g. "On our way camping," "Arriving at our hotel in Naples) just by fumbling around. This software is especially easy to navigate.
6. I like the fact that Adobe Premier has so many resources...some online, that I have not yet explored, and some in book form, including this one that was just released. Adobe Premiere Elements 9 Classroom in a Book I may end up getting more involved in this as a hobby than I thought I ever would or could. I am optimistic about this since thus far the fundamentals have proven so user friendly.
In summary, I highly recommend this product against all others. It is great for the novice, the "point-and-shoot" user, and apparently will allow you to gain more expertise with practice. Time will tell.
Lastly, I apologize for the lengthy review, but after trying so many editing software choices out there I am really pleased I finally found one that works, works well, and is so user friendly. My only gripe at this point is that by the time I downloaded the trial version and tested it, the price had increased by $10 when I went to make the purchase! Even at that, though, I still consider it a good value.
If my opinion changes (for better or worse) as I continue to work my way through this software, I will update the review.
37 of 37 people found the following review helpful
There seem to be multiple negative reviews for this version of Adobe Premiere Elements 9, but nearly all come from people who have much more experience than I do with previous versions of the software, or who have used competing software. I can't possibly disagree with these reviewers, because I lack their experience.
However, from the perspective of a novice user who has accumulated a lot of videos and photos over the years, and having had a chance to experiment with Adobe Premiere Elements 9, I have to say that I'm quite happy with it. In short, here's what I liked:
1) The organizer was good at helping me find all the videos and photos I have scattered on my hard drive, including videos imported from an old analog video camera, from a newer (but non-HD) digital video camera, and from an earlier (also non-HD) Flip camera. All of these are easy to "drag and drop" into a video project. I am an avid Picasa user, and I have mixed feelings about letting two pieces of software do all the cataloging of my videos. I'm not sure what to do...perhaps I'll give up on Picasa?
2) The editor was fun! I had never played around with various video effects (though I have tried such effects on photos). I'm looking forward to experimenting with the chroma key effect (my 10-year-old son enjoys trying green screen experiments), reversing video clips, and so on. There are some extra effects available if I pay to become a plus member, but it seems there are ample effects without needing to pay extra.
3) There is a nice variety of transitions, themes, titles, DVD menus, and more. Another reviewer suggested that the themes seemed to be kid-oriented. There are some kid-based themes, but there are plenty of others to choose from. I would like to note that when I installed Premiere Elements, I only needed to use the first of two supplied DVDs for the installation. Then, once the software was installed, I used the second DVD to install a large variety of themes and related content.
4) I liked the variety of sharing options, including uploading to several video sites, creating DVDs for computer viewing, and for TV viewing.
There were a few minor frustrating glitches:
1) The Adobe registration system that comes up at the beginning of the software would NOT let me log in with my existing ID, until AFTER I went to their website and logged in once (and I only learned that by searching online for a solution). After that, Premiere Elements handled my ID fine.
2) Sometimes the software is slow to respond (using Windows 7, 64-bit, on a computer that is less than one year old). Sometimes I click a clip to watch it, expecting a response, and there may be a 5- to 10-second delay before anything shows up, with no indication that something is "in progress".
3) Minor screen glitches...While using Premiere Elements 9, sometimes part of some graphic from the program attaches itself to my screen cursor and won't go away regardless of whatever applications I am using.
I'm willing to bet that most of this will get worked out in some future update.
All in all, there is plenty to recommend for novices like me who want to get started on basic video editing.
However, from the perspective of a novice user who has accumulated a lot of videos and photos over the years, and having had a chance to experiment with Adobe Premiere Elements 9, I have to say that I'm quite happy with it. In short, here's what I liked:
1) The organizer was good at helping me find all the videos and photos I have scattered on my hard drive, including videos imported from an old analog video camera, from a newer (but non-HD) digital video camera, and from an earlier (also non-HD) Flip camera. All of these are easy to "drag and drop" into a video project. I am an avid Picasa user, and I have mixed feelings about letting two pieces of software do all the cataloging of my videos. I'm not sure what to do...perhaps I'll give up on Picasa?
2) The editor was fun! I had never played around with various video effects (though I have tried such effects on photos). I'm looking forward to experimenting with the chroma key effect (my 10-year-old son enjoys trying green screen experiments), reversing video clips, and so on. There are some extra effects available if I pay to become a plus member, but it seems there are ample effects without needing to pay extra.
3) There is a nice variety of transitions, themes, titles, DVD menus, and more. Another reviewer suggested that the themes seemed to be kid-oriented. There are some kid-based themes, but there are plenty of others to choose from. I would like to note that when I installed Premiere Elements, I only needed to use the first of two supplied DVDs for the installation. Then, once the software was installed, I used the second DVD to install a large variety of themes and related content.
4) I liked the variety of sharing options, including uploading to several video sites, creating DVDs for computer viewing, and for TV viewing.
There were a few minor frustrating glitches:
1) The Adobe registration system that comes up at the beginning of the software would NOT let me log in with my existing ID, until AFTER I went to their website and logged in once (and I only learned that by searching online for a solution). After that, Premiere Elements handled my ID fine.
2) Sometimes the software is slow to respond (using Windows 7, 64-bit, on a computer that is less than one year old). Sometimes I click a clip to watch it, expecting a response, and there may be a 5- to 10-second delay before anything shows up, with no indication that something is "in progress".
3) Minor screen glitches...While using Premiere Elements 9, sometimes part of some graphic from the program attaches itself to my screen cursor and won't go away regardless of whatever applications I am using.
I'm willing to bet that most of this will get worked out in some future update.
All in all, there is plenty to recommend for novices like me who want to get started on basic video editing.
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60 of 67 people found the following review helpful
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I've used Adobe Photoshop (not Elements) for many years but use Final Cut Express for video editing. I downloaded Premiere Elements 9 for Mac to see if it would be a cheaper alternative to FCE with Adobe's quality. My first impression is that it's very much like the newer Microsoft products. When you open the program it has to "phone home" to Adobe. It wants you to log in to their video sharing site, etc. It (like Apple's cheaper software) wants to take over the management of every still and video on your machine. Don't software developers realize that some people have more than one program for the same purpose?
As far as features, it seems ideal for capturing children's activities. It has lots of canned intros and styles that are children-based. It has a very few features that FCE probably doesn't have but it doesn't seem to support any after-market add ons. One is limited to what's in the box. If you're a busy mom who wants to easily make a cute (too-cute?) video of Charley's 5th birthday party, this is probably an ideal $100 editor, but you can do no more than the features built into the program.
It's not bad at all, just too limiting for me. I was hoping for something closer to Premiere (as FCE is to FCP). I had no stability issues on my Mac and got a clean uninstall from the Adobe software so I can recommend that you download the demo (which can be licensed to the full editor) and see if it's a better fit for you than it is for me.
As far as features, it seems ideal for capturing children's activities. It has lots of canned intros and styles that are children-based. It has a very few features that FCE probably doesn't have but it doesn't seem to support any after-market add ons. One is limited to what's in the box. If you're a busy mom who wants to easily make a cute (too-cute?) video of Charley's 5th birthday party, this is probably an ideal $100 editor, but you can do no more than the features built into the program.
It's not bad at all, just too limiting for me. I was hoping for something closer to Premiere (as FCE is to FCP). I had no stability issues on my Mac and got a clean uninstall from the Adobe software so I can recommend that you download the demo (which can be licensed to the full editor) and see if it's a better fit for you than it is for me.
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Premiere Elements is Adobe's consumer editing product whereas Premiere Pro is our professional editing application. Premiere Elements has many features not available in iMovie and the Flip software, such as up to 99 tracks of video/audio, full key-framing of audio, motion, and effect parameters, hundreds of transitions and effects, and the ability to create many advanced effects such as picture in picture and green screening.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great--when it works
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Published 2 months ago by John Williams
Premiere Elements: Not ready for prime time...
Had hoped to be able to post my first video review here, but this won't be the case.
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Published 4 months ago by John Williamson
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Avoid the Adobe Noid
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Published 5 months ago by The Bouncer
Good but limited as far as titles
This would be a great program for those like me who just want to be able to make quick home movies that look real nice. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Tim
Great budget digital video editing
I was pleased to see v9 arrive, as Premiere Elements 8 suffered from a lack of Project "presets" (settings that define the video frame size and rate) that meant it was almost... Read more
Published 6 months ago by digerati
Requires too much memory
I was required to purchase this product for school. I loaded it onto my 3-year-old PC and experienced only technical problems. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Sarah Wicks
Lots of features - Lacks robust performance
I am a new user of Premiere Elaments 9. I am impressed with all of the features and options. The product installs with relatively few problems even for a novice. Read more
Published 7 months ago by David Malas
Could not install the software
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Published 8 months ago by Dick
Excited and disappointed at same time --Doubled after receipt
I've spent hours reading reviews and difficult to obtain help on many Google Searches and still don't know whether my purchase of this, arriving tomorrow, is a terrible loss leader... Read more
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