Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 [OLDER VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 [OLDER VERSION]
Customer Review: I rated this with four un-deserved stars because...
Summary: 4 Stars
I rated this with four un-deserved stars because it basically is a great program when it works with some computers. You see even if you have a fast computer with super charged daul-core processor and 2 GB of RAM, most of you will still have problems. It will tell you after around 15 minutes of work and doing some fades, pans, zooms that you have a memory problem (you really don't; it's the poorly programed software working with Windows XP). Save your work now before it crashes" type message box comes up. You better stop quick and save it or lose it. Some computers might be totally compatible with this Premier Elements and have no crashes (these lucky ones will tell you it's something wrong you did; don't believe them); most computers will have problems.
The Adobe programmers must have not tested this software with any video past 20 minutes long. Did they take Windows XP seriously? I doubt it. Maybe after 5 minutes of testing these young kid programmers padded themselves on the back and did the longer video testing on a MAC. They need to hire an older programmer that has been around the block that can program this software to handle windows memory problems and fire all them x-hacker kids with the tatoos and earrings in their nose to program this software. You know, pay for an older expert programmer worth his salt to re-write the program so it can handle Windows XP memory problems. Then we could all boast about all the good features this software has.
OK I have a work around. It works with me every time. Here's what you do. After you spent a considerable amount of time and you have almost 20 minutes length, with all your fades and pans and such; save it now. OK, after that go to FILE, EXPORT MOVIE and go and export to to a new folder you have created. It allows you to rename the file and you go ahead and it export a .AVI clean file. Yes, a clean .AVI file that has none of your fades, wipes, pans, or linked files of all your videos and photos that is hogging up your memory and system.
Now after that, you exit Premier Elements. Then you open up Premier Elements again and start a new project linked to the new folder you created with that .AVI file of the whole movie. Bring in the .AVI file and then you can make a DVD without crashing and saying there is an error and it takes much faster to burn a DVD movie. Now if you want to make an over hour long DVD, then do this every 20 minutes. Or export an hour long movie and bring it in again as a new project and make a two hour long video or longer. It seems stupid, but it works and it's the stupid people at Adobe not looking out for us non-professionals who want to make a professional video without the software crashing; and saying it's our fault (like not buying a dumb MAC). Do they make sure the software doesn't work that well with our IBM compatible computers to force us to buy a "stinkin" Mac? I don't need your stinkin mac!!!
Again this is for most of us that even have a fast running computer that Adobe Premier Elements doesn't like anyhow (like most of our computers). Man, if these Adobe people could find out a way to love Windows XP by programing Premier Elements correctly to fix the memory errors, it would sell like hot cakes.
Customer Review: ADobe Premiere Elements 3.0
Summary: 4 Stars
Does not tell you untill you install it that it needs SSE capable CPU.
Could create problems for some PC's which easily meet all other requirements.
Customer Review: Good video quality but unacceptably slow speed.
Summary: 3 Stars
I tested the trial version of this application on my computer. The specifications of the machine are: Pentium 4, cpu speed: 3 GHz, 2GB of Ram, 80 GB of free SATA hard disk space, 256 MB RAM video card, OS: XP Pro, Asus mother board. In short, it contains no cheap components.
I've made 4 home movies on DVD with Premiere. Each was 3-hours long. All these files had been converted to mpeg 2 by WinDVD creator. All I had to do was render these files and write them to 4 blank double-layer DVD discs using Premiere elements.
Below is the pros and cons of this application.
PRO
- STABILITY
The program never crashed after 4 days of usage. Installation was easy and smooth.
- INTERFACE
It's not very difficult to use but it's not very easy either. It took me, a beginner, 15-20 minutes to play around with the interface and the help file before I was able to do what I wanted to. That's okay to me.
- LONG TRIAL PERIOD
It allows me to test it for 30 days without pay. That's enough time for testing everything I wanted to.
- CREATING GOOD QUALITY VIDEO
The quality of the movies created by Premiere are very good.
CONS
- EXTREME SLOWNESS
After 4 hours, Adobe Premiere still had not finished rendering and writing one movie! At that time, it had done only 70%. That movie conisted of 2 mpeg files with the total size of 7.9 GB! That is unacceptable. I had to let the program run over night any time I wanted to create a movie longer than 1 hour!
- NO SPEED SELECTION FOR WRITING TO DVD'S
There's no speed selections for writing to DVD discs. So, when it writes to double-layer DVD's, it's very slow. I believe it writes at 2.4x which is the slowest speed for double layer.
- HUGE RESOURCE CONSUMPTION
When I have Premiere 3 running, Task Manager shows my CPU usage is 96% to 98%. When it's not running, CPU usage is 2%. That's too much for a single program!
In short, this program is worth buying if you can stand the extreme slowness.
Customer Review: Audio drop outs, not user friendly, wish I had $$ back
Summary: 1 Stars
The fact that when you import video clips, which work fine with Microsoft's video program, the same clips have drop outs in the audio, making it sound like a bad cell phone connection, kills this product for me. Makes you videso sound like this: Here we are on........to hawaii and here is ........the beach. Later we......grass skirts and Pearl Har......Arizona lays.
what a horrible product.
Adobe Prem. elements does work, and the finish videos does not drop out the sound, but it does in the program. I have made a dozen videos with it and it works...but it is hard to use and some features are either not avaiable, or impossible to find (like easily balanceing sound from the shot video and the music background....Windows free software has an easy to use, slider switch for this, which is easy to find and use. Not Adobe. One would think, for this kind of money, the product would both user friendly and have all the features of the same free product from Windows.
Customer Review: Intuitive, Stable, Recommended
Summary: 5 Stars
After using another editing program for a year and having it crash regularly, I bought PE 3. The interface is definitely easy to figure out, but getting help if you need it is only a couple clicks away. For me, one of the most important things was to have a stable editing program, and PE 3 hasn't let me down. Never a problem or glitch. The price is right too.