Adobe Premiere Elements 7 | List Price: $99.99
Discount Price: $69.48
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Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista
Brand: Adobe
Binding: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2008-10-13
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
What can I saw - Adobe make good products [Posted on 2008-12-18]
I thought I had reviewed this but apparently not. I use Adobe products on a daily basis. While this product is the pared down version of the Adobe Premiere product it provides excellent tools to make home movies. Some of the tools are a bit cumbersome and require some trial and error to get things correct but once you get the hang of it things get better pretty fast. Really, the key to any of these products is in the way the video is taken. When you take long segments they are a little harder to blend and manipulate. I have compared this application to the Corel product and found Corel to be easier to use and provides a bit more flexibility. Sony Vegas has more tools but is equally difficult to work with. I also own Pinnacle Studio which is easier than any of these products to use but has some limitations that the others don't. All that being said I still like the product and will use it for those video tasks that it works best on. I guess what I am trying to say is the right tool for all tasks may not exist in one package.
Can't read video, can't write video but middle is a little better [Posted on 2008-12-20]
I have a fairly new video camera but this product was unable to import the video directly. I had to use the small app that came with the camera to import the data to disk and then "import" that into Premier Elements. The failure message is pretty bizarre and comes attached to a nearly phantom window; this is clearly a gaping whole in the program. Adobe support says that it just might not be able to work with that camera.
After struggling with the clunky interface I finally put together a video that I wanted to burn to DL DVD. However, as soon as I get to that menu the program crashes (i.e., a dialog pops up to send an error report to Microsoft). Adobe support just says to be sure that everything that can be updated (there are no updates to PE 7) is updated—they were.
When I looked into getting a consumer-level video editing program about 6 months ago Premier Elements 4 (they jumped a couple numbers here to line it up with (Photo) Elements) the consensus was what PE 4 was the best of a bad lot. My guess is that with this release, Premiere Elements 7 is no longer even the best of the bad lot. With a product with so many versions, it really ought to work much better than this. I would dub it the Vista of video editors, but even Vista is not this dysfunctional. I expected more from Adobe.
Powerful but painful to use, I can't recommend it! [Posted on 2008-12-23]
I mainly started using PE 3.0 awhile back to upload videos to YouTube and to get my HD movies from my camcorder onto DVD (with a few titles, etc..). I never found 3.0 that easy to use but I got the job done.
I upgraded to PE 7 about a month ago and I have been very disappointed. At first I figured I just needed time to get adjusted to the program, but here I am a month later and today started shopping for another alternative. I plan to uninstall PE 7. Which is hard for me to say. But the program is just too painful for me to use, it is not very intuitive and if you want to deviate from doing things how THEY want you to do it....well good luck.
I also get the lockups that others have complained about. Today was the last straw when trying to make a 3 min .flv movie from HD content. The program kept locking up telling me I didn't have enough memory resources. I have a smokin fast machine with 4 GB of memory...if that can't cut it then I doubt most peoples computers will. Very disappointing.
I love Adobe products normally but this one was a total failure. I suggest you look elsewhere at the many other options for the same money.
Does The Job [Posted on 2008-12-23]
I loaded this program recently, and found that it is up to the tasks that a 'regular user' - such as myself - will require. The install is easy, and storyboarding, and adding effects are simple.
I have to ask myself though, what does this do that MS Movie Maker doesn't already do? The answer is that you must register and pay a fee $$ to use some of the slicker features.
quality tells [Posted on 2008-12-28]
like all adobe purchases i havw done in past "it is of the finest quality"
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