Adobe Premiere Elements 7 [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Adobe Premiere Elements 7 [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Do Not Buy!
Summary: 1 Stars
I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FW170J that runs on 4gb RAM and 2.26 GHz Processor. Every time Premiere runs it freezes and goes into a white screen. If I wait for at least five minutes it will come back. But as soon as I try to edit more of my project or video it will do the same thing. Also video playback is very unreliable, it never plays the whole piece, just the audio runs and it stays at a certain picture of a scene most times. I recommend saving your money and purchase something else. I don't like to advertise, but if you want something easy and runs smoothly, Magix works decent. If you have a Mac, you should know to stick with FinalCut.
Customer Review: Adobe P Elements 7 is a piece of CRAP
Summary: 1 Stars
Hey I have been editing with Adobe products for a long time since Adobe Premiere Elements 3 and with Adobe Premiere as well. Well I needed to edit HD video that I shoot with my Canon VIXIA HF100. After using Premiere Elements 7 I have come to dislike Adobe. I am in the works to going to Mac. My elements 3 is way better here are my reason for a crappy Elements 7.
1. Crashes (running on Vista)
2. To do a little more you have to subscribe to a subscription (themes, certain effects etc).
3. Audio is skipping on less you rendered which is surprising, I did not have to do that for version 3 or 4.
4. Always get the low resources message: hmm this is a quad core, 500gb, 3gb of RAM now at first thought it was some other things installed on my PC that is taking up the resources. But I had the same issue when I installed this program on my machine when I first got it last year or so. So there were no programs installed except what came with the PC when I bought it. This is a DELL XPS 420.
5. Codec issues up the wahzu.
Overall its a chore to edit now you can do almost everything quick and easy but to finalize, burn it, save it replay it then you have a nightmare. I do not recommend this hopefully version 8 is better.
Customer Review: Most Frustrating Software EVER!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I should have heeded the other reviews, but, NOOOOOOOO, I just knew my experience would be different. Adobe PhotoShop Elements 7 does what it says it will do; not so with Premiere Elements 7.
I purchased this software because I created a slideshow in PhotoShop Elements for my mother's 90th birthday party but could not burn it onto a DVD; one could do that (theoretically) only using Premiere Elements, and that's why I went ahead and purchased it.
After several hours spent attempting to a burn a DVD of the slideshow and having all attempts thwarted ~ low memory messages; "Error compiling movie, out of memory"; "Adobe PRE7 encountered a problem and needs to close" (that happened 49 seconds before the end of the burn); and the very frequent "TRANSCODING ERROR"!!!!!
Just what the heck is a "transcoding error" any way? I'm not alone in encountering these problems, as evidenced by going through various message boards. Adobe creators of this program need to hang their heads in shame.
I uninstalled the program and re-installed the program. I cleaned up my brand new computer, turned off the screen saver, etc. I even tried creating the entire slideshow using Premiere Elements. What I ended up doing is going back to PhotoShop Elements 7 and creating a video CD of the slideshow, and, luckily, it plays in all of my DVD players. I wasted all that time and money attempting to use PRE7.
Customer Review: Requires Newer Hardware Than I Have
Summary: 5 Stars
I can say this this is the best choice for inexpensive, yet powerful video editing on a PC. As a MAC user, (which is why I have older PC hardware), I have significant iMovie/iDVD experience. Looking at Elements from this perspective, I can say that it is nice to see a Timeline view for editing in Elements. It also has an iMovie-ish Sceneline editor as well.
It is also nice to be able to use video from any device, burn a blue-ray disc (not an option for Macs at this point) and do video composite work.
The video overlays, titles, effects, and transitions look amazing. If I were editing on a PC, this would be my choice.
I originally wanted to review this product from experience, but all I can give you is my impressions of it. When I tried to install it on my custom-built PC from 2005 (AMD Athlon XP 3200+) the installer disc stated that my computer does not support SSE2 instruction sets. This is also noted on the box. As a result I could not install this product on my machine.
Customer Review: PE7 Took PE4, which was Nice, Tried to Enhance, But the Release is Not Stable! Too Many Crashes & Freezes!
Summary: 3 Stars
===Update (12/12/09)===
After two contacts with Adobe, and some additional work, I have the following to add to this review ( and up my ranking from three stars to four):
* On page 15 of the paper manual, towards the bottom of the page, I found, Important Some settings can not be changed such as FIPS, aspect ration after the first fragment is used. This explains many of the freezes and crashes that I experienced.
* PE7 seems to be very sensitive to formats. Make sure that you are using the formats that are acceptable to it.
* A better practice is to do what the manual says (Of course, I have to confess that I do not like to read manuals)and *set your settings first*, unless you like the default.
* Since I use several different formats in each youTube.com clip that I post, I have found the video converter free download at:
[...] to be great for me. You might do some digging and find a better one.
* My youTube video at:
[...] was produced by using PE7. The "grainyness" is supposed to add artistic value to the message and
is *not* the PE7 fault.
===Original Review===
Let me say these first so you put this review in perspective:
* I have used and like Adobe PhotShop a great deal.
* I liked PE4, unfortunately, PE7 has too many frequent, unexpected, and sudden crashes and freezes!
* I was amazed by the rich product features that I saw in PE7 before purchase,:
o The free music,
o Added quick movie production, etc., etc.
* Unfortunately, it is frustrating not to be able to use those features without crashes!
I think that the user interface is even nicer than PE4. To be fair, it might be that frequent crashes and freezes might have to do with my Windows Vista.
I have had a lot of trouble importing Sony FE11 HD footage and using it in PE7. The .m4v for instance is not processed properly. The audio track proceeds OK, but image frames freeze and stick. Even after frequent "saves" you lose work that was done prior to freeze. I was not successful in capturing Mino HD format. However, I do give credit to Adobe for indicating that Mino format is not supported.
There is an unexpected warning and a rapid freeze upon attempting to enter the next command before the present command is completely executed (command chaining.)
However, from Adobe, one of the most recognized brand names in industry, one needs to get a solid stable and robust "Adobe Style" product.
I hope that Adobe fixes these problems since Premiere is almost a religion! If ,and when they do, I will change my review or submit a more approving one.