Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 [OLDER VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 [OLDER VERSION]
Customer Review: Simple enough for a beginner with impressive performance
Summary: 5 Stars
I have NEVER done any video editing before. I got this product primarily to be able to do take clips from DVDs we create at church and use in sermons while I am preaching. Then I discovered my MPG2 videos weren't working with PowerPoint, so rather than try to jump through hoops to fix the codec problems, I just opened Premiere Elements 3.0 and dropped the clips I needed in, then exported them as .avi files and they worked great. Then my wife handed me a DVD she wanted to use a clip from at church in less than 90 minutes. I had spent less than 30 minutes with the software up to that point, but I started dumping the DVD onto my hard drive while I went to a meeting. I came back in an hour, and everything was rendered on my hard drive. I played around with the interface for less than five minutes, and within 10 minutes had exported a three minute clip from the DVD into PowerPoint. I still don't claim to know much about video editing, but I don't know how a piece of editing software could get easier than this!Customer Review: Great Looking - Difficult to Use
Summary: 2 Stars
Great looking, marketed with nice features. Hard to use, instructions are poor, support documents are difficult to navigate. Owned 3 months and still having trouble burning DVDs with the software.Customer Review: Nice UI but poor DVD quality
Summary: 3 Stars
I have a brand new Sony DCR-SR200. The videos are very good. When I burn them to DVD with the crummy software included by Sony they look fine. When I use Elements they are terrible even with all settings set to highest quality. There is a ghost image when the scene pans, i.e. the edges of things like rocks and trees get a pixelated ghost edge trailing them.
The software design is great. It's easy to use and does some cool stuff, but I had to return it due to this problem.
Customer Review: Easy to use software
Summary: 4 Stars
I have edited camcorder videos for many years. I have used Video Director, Dazzle, and Pinnacle Studio. I decided to try Adobe Premiere Elements because of the good experience with Adobe Photoshop. I find Adobe Premiere Elements to be straightforward to use. Customer Review: Very Unstable. Save Fails. Huge Work Loss Risk.
Summary: 1 Stars
I forgave Adobe when it didn't run on an Athlon XP, even though this CPU is not that old... I forgave partly when I lost hours of work to a crash that shouldn't have happened... The crash was due to an Adobe bug, but I had to take some blame for failing to save. I was surprised to find that auto save was set to the default 10 minutes though, as it sure seemed like I lost more than that.
So, I set the auto-save to 5 minutes... In fact, I started seeing the "Saving" progress bar start showing up about every 5 minutes. Then it crashed again today.. I thought I was covered, but after relaunching all my work was lost. Again, I though maybe I was doing something wrong. So I looked in the folder structure and found an "Auto-Saves" folder. It even had some very recent "project files". But guess what... I opened the most recent of them and found that none of my changes for today were there.
So aside from the unnecessarily complicated user interface, slow performance, and severe instability (all shown to be Adobe's fault by testing on several different systems with no difference in behavior), this software will also throw out hours of your work after pretending to let you save it.
This is so bad that I am going to take another serious look at finding valid alternatives for my other Adobe software. I used to think Abode was one of the better companies. But this shows that they are willing to release dangerous junk... How can I ever trust them again?