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71 of 73 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The most powerful video editor for hobbyists, November 7, 2004
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
Premiere Elements, Marc Peters
Premiere Elements, James Morris
Premiere Elements, John Virata
Premiere Elements, Joe Lavery
Premiere Elements, Mike Langberg
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89 of 100 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
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.
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36 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good for DV, but..., November 1, 2004
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.
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