Product Description

Create incredible movies with Adobe Premiere Elements 7. Get started quickly with automated moviemaking options, add knockout visuals and sound, and share your movies everywhere. And now, extend the capabilities of your software with new Photoshop.com Plus membership (Annual membership terms apply).

Upload your movies to YouTube or your personal sharing page - optimizing and formatting for the specific destination is automatic Design custom disc menus, or choose from dozens of menu templates - scene indexes or chapters for your menu are automatically created with links that correspond to your video clips With Photoshop.com Plus membership (Annual membership terms apply), you can - Turn video clips into polished movies with ideas, tutorials, movie themes, and special effects delivered regularly to your software Backup your memories automatically with no scheduling required - get 20GB of storage, enough for up to 4 hours of DVD-quality video Access your clips and movies virtually anywhere

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #161 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 65026874
• Released on: 2008-10-13
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Features

• Stay connected with your favorite people and memories with new Photoshop.com membership
• Get started quickly with automated moviemaking options
• Enhance your stories with knockout visuals and sound
• Share on YouTube, your own website, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and mobile devices
• Protect your videos with automatic online backup and 2GB of storage--enough for approximately 25 minutes of DVD-quality video

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With Adobe Premiere Elements 7 software, making incredible movies is easier than ever. Get started quickly with new, automated options that instantly turn your raw footage into polished movies. Enhance your stories with knockout visuals and sound. Share your movies on YouTube, your own website, disc, and everywhere else. New Photoshop.com membership* works with Adobe Premiere Elements 7 so you can protect your videos with automatic online backup and 2GB of storage, and access your movies and clips anywhere you are.

Enjoy a variety of easy ways to show off your movies. Share far and wide by uploading directly to YouTube, or share with family and friends on your personal website. Burn to DVD or Blu-ray Disc. Or play your movies on mobile phones and other portable media devices. Click to enlarge.

Let Adobe Premiere Elements automatically analyze and tag your footage based on quality and interest (such as brightness, focus, or content) to make it easy to choose the best clips for your movies. Click to enlarge.

Add visual appeal with hundreds of effects and transitions, interactive disc menus, animated titles, and professional credits. Click to enlarge.

Go from camera to DVD or Blu-ray Disc, complete with menu and scene index, in a few easy steps.

Instantly create polished movies with no effort. Just choose a theme, and InstantMovie automatically edits your footage using Hollywood directors' techniques.

Do it all with one powerful yet easy-to-use product
Use Adobe Premiere Elements 7 software with Photoshop.com* for all your video needs: import and organize your clips; edit them together yourself or choose automated options to effortlessly create incredible movies; enhance your movies with knockout visual and audio effects, titles, and interactive disc menus; share them on the web, disc, and everywhere else; protect your videos; and view them anywhere you are.

*Available only in the U.S.

Introducing new Photoshop.com membership*
Works with Adobe Premiere Elements 7 to help you protect your videos from computer loss and hard drive crashes with automatic online backup and enough storage (2GB) for up to an hour of DVD-quality video, and access your movies and clips anywhere you are. Upgrade to Plus membership at any time and get 15GB more storage, and a variety of inspiring ideas, tutorials, movie themes, and special effects delivered regularly to your software.

*Available only in the U.S.

Quickly find your best clips
Let Adobe Premiere Elements automatically analyze and tag your footage, so you can quickly find your most interesting, highest quality clips.

Create a polished movie, instantly
Create polished movies with no effort. Just choose a theme, and InstantMovie automatically edits together your best clips with coordinated music, titles, effects, and transitions. You can even customize the final result if you wish.

Conveniently share your movie and enjoy the latest technology
Follow easy steps to create your movie once, and then in the Sharing Center choose to save it to disc, the web, or mobile devices. 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.

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.

Easily enhance with dazzling effects and transitions
Choose from hundreds of amazing special effects and TV-style transitions that you can drag onto your movie to add a unique look.

Start quickly with all your media at your fingertips
Find what you need fast using an Organizer similar to the one in Adobe Photoshop Elements software. Visually tag clips to categorize by people, places, or events, and easily browse thumbnails in the new clip preview and tagging window. Then search and sort files by date or ratings, or browse Smart Tags to quickly find your best clips.

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.

Personalize your movies
Add polish and personality with custom, interactive disc menus, animated titles, and professionally designed credits.

Use footage from virtually any device, including AVCHD camcorders
Bring in video from all your devices, including the latest camcorders (even high-definition AVCHD), digital cameras, webcams, and mobile phones.

Customer Reviews

Great, and I have only scratched the surface!
Admittedly, I have only scratched the surface of what this wonderful program can do... but for the time being, I have to say it did exactly what I wanted it to do (that I was having a bear of a time getting any other program to do)--which was easily convert HD (AVCHD specifically) to mpeg or avi. This program does it easily, although not quickly (but I don't think any program really can do it quickly). My first trial of converting a 50 minute HD video to mpeg took approximately five hours (yes, FIVE hours)...but it did it, and I didn't even have to break out the manual to figure out how to do it (bonus!). I even managed to add scene breaks for the menu! That said, I didn't actually do any editing on the video - I just wanted to make sure this program worked to convert.

As I said, I just scratched the surface of what this program can do, as there are other basic things like titles, transitions, audio, narration, etc. that can all be added. Honestly, those things are a little over my head and right now I don't have much of a need for them... but come February when our first child makes his appearance, and we start gathering footage by the hundreds of gigabytes, I am sure my husband will have a grand time editing with this program, and I will try to get him to come back here and update my review.

Okay, but it needs a few more iterations
I ordered this because I am a huge fan of Adobe Photoshop Elements 7, which is the scaled down, consumer-level version of Photoshop. While I find Photoshop incredibly difficult and time consuming to use, Elements just sails along, able to do quick tasks like cropping and color-correcting in minutes, instead of hours.

So, I had high hopes for the Elements version of Premiere, which in this release is bumped up to Version 7 to match the Photoshop version.

Unfortunately I didn't find it as easy to use as I had hoped. Part of this may be that video is inherently more difficult to manipulate than static photographs. Part of it may be that video, particularly high def video, takes up a great deal of memory and disk space, and is therefore harder to work with. And, finally, I think part of it is that Premiere just isn't as far along as Photoshop. It hasn't been through seven iterations, and it feels like it.

I'm not dissatisfied with it, which is why I still gave it four stars, but it isn't on the same level (for me) as Photoshop Elements, and it is pretty expensive. If you are a regular user of the full version of Premiere, and you just want something a bit smaller for home, this may be just the ticket. If you are new to video editing software, however, you'll want to compare the various options before clicking the Buy button on this one.

Sean P. Logue, 2009

Bought it and brought it back the same day
I was hooked into the visual appeal of the UI. Big mistake! In a nutshell it it very slow and locks up. It is not for the occasional user(like me) as it is not intuitive to even do simple tasks(like trimming a video file). I ccouldn't get more than one video file in the time line. I followed the help files instructions and still couldn't successfully trim the file or get multiple clips on the time line, After 3-1/2 hours of trying I uninstalled it and returned the software.