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Adobe Premiere Elements 7

 
Adobe Premiere Elements 7   By Adobe
Average Customer Rating: Average rating of 3.5/5Average rating of 3.5/5Average rating of 3.5/5Average rating of 3.5/5Average rating of 3.5/5

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Product 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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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

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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

Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5 Good for typical users and beginners., 2008-12-03
I have never edited video before in my life, nor have I researched any video editing programs. With half my brain tied behind my back, leaving the software manual completely sealed-- and nothing up my sleeve-- I installed this program and made my first video in one afternoon. One reason that I picked this up so quickly is that I have used graphics and 3D programs for years, and I have a good instinct for where to find the functions I want. If you need software that will do everything for you, this isn't a good choice. If you're willing to roll up your sleeves and work a little, you can make great, professional-looking videos with Premiere Elements.

The program took a long time to install-- so long that I had to step away from it several times, AND it required a restart. On some machines the program will lag, and if you're running on Vista you already have a hateful relationship with that stupid little circle that goes round and round forever. It didn't crash, but a couple of times I thought it would. I would advise Windows users to exceed the minimum requirements for operation, and run it on XP if you can.

Nearly everything is drag and drop. The challenge sometimes is finding what you want to drag, whether it's a certain transition, or changing text. I've never found Adobe interfaces to be particularly intuitive, and this one is no exception. What's obvious to Adobe and experienced users is not so cut and dry for beginners. This is what makes Help so important. The online-only Help is inexcusable. As easy as the program is, at some point you'll have to check Help for SOMEthing, but if you have no internet connection you're out of luck. It was also slow, and didn't link keywords and phrases like even some of the most basic programs I've had. I don't understand the apparent lack of MP4 support, either. MP4 imports are hopelessly out of sync about half the time, with no apparent way to fix it.

But what about results? I've got some slick videos for my family, and it didn't take me any time at all to do them. I've got music, transitions, credits, titles, and it was a lot easier than taping together pieces of film. This is a good product for a beginner who typically has a shorter learning curve on computers in general, or an intermediate user who is new to Premiere Elements, or not upgrading from 4.

Average rating of 1/5Average rating of 1/5Average rating of 1/5Average rating of 1/5Average rating of 1/5 Adobe Premier elements 7, 2008-12-01
I am running Win XP Pro SP3 and this package refused to run.
It installed, but crashed within seconds after starting a video file.
$90 wasted i guess. :(
If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

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Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5 Best movie software for the price, 2008-11-30
If you need more video editing capabilities than the standard types of movie making programs that come with computers provide, then this product is for you. It also creates the automatic type movies, but for me its real beauty is allowing to overlay multiple videos and produce professional looking movies. I have only limited movie making experience but have been very satisfied with what I can do so far. There are many features that I am not even yet familiar with. The one disappointment for me is the DVD authoring is not as robust as I would have hoped for, in fact it seems so limited that I am going to have use a different program to create DVDs. But for making the movies to go on the DVD, Adobe Premiere Elements is excellent.

Average rating of 3/5Average rating of 3/5Average rating of 3/5Average rating of 3/5Average rating of 3/5 My Head Hurts..., 2008-11-30
I was excited to receive this product. But after a couple hours with it, I haven't accomplished anything and my head hurts.

Help - Online... What if I'm not connected to internet? No Help?

Add Files... No search and add to repository - must go find files manually?

Add Media... File browser hoplessly general AND hopelessly specific - can't get "all movies" or "all still images", etc.

Organizer... Project oriented - means must search elements for every project...
- every drag and drop changes view away from last selected

Capture... Found webcam without any problem (wow)

Drag Clips... After bottom row is full must scroll to drop next clip - doesn't automatically reveal next open box

Video Sizing - no key-sequence or other control to maintain aspect ratio

I thrashed through a number of attempts to configure the product for easy follow-up use. I didn't manage to configure the software for anything but the current project.

Thrash was the mode of operation and very quickly grew tiresome.

There's a lot of power here but it just looks like a program written for programmers who live to program. For people who want to get in, get something done, and get on with life, it's a disaster.

I gave it a medium rating because even though it's not for me, I am sure there are people who will love the thrash, gadgets and do-dads.



Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5 Highly recommended for the typical user, 2008-11-30
Overall, Adobe Premiere Elements 7 is a great program for the casual video enthusiast. Having used Premiere Elements 4 for a while, this new version is a nice step up. One of the most useful features is what Adobe calls "Smart Tagging," which makes it easier to organize and use video clips. A new feature is the ability to make composite videos, which uses a kind of "green screen" means to isolate a person or object from one scene to use in another. The program also includes more dramatic effects for scene transitions. Many people will be tempted to over-use some of these novel features before realizing that they can quickly become annoying to viewers. One of the most useful features in this program enables the user to drag-and-drop scenes into place or move to a new position. I found Premiere Elements 7 to be fairly intuitive and easy to use. The learning curve is not as steep as it is for Premiere Pro CS4 (nor is it as expensive), and for most users this program will provide more than enough features to keep things interesting for some time to come. I highly recommend this version for the typical user.


Product Details
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Adobe
EAN: 0883919168265
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Adobe
Manufacturer: Adobe
Model: 65026874
Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista
Publisher: Adobe
Release Date: 2008-10-13
Studio: Adobe