Adobe Premiere Elements 7 [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Adobe Premiere Elements 7 [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Be prepared for frequent crashes
Summary: 2 Stars
You have to have a lot of patience to use Adobe Premiere Elements 7 because of the frequent error messages and crashes. Save often, keep the kids out of the room so they don't have to hear your swearing, and with only a few weeks of work and tons of perseverance you can put together a pretty decent AVCHD video. Something like driving a car in the early 20th century - lots of breakdowns and flat tires. But wait, isn't this the 21st century? What's up Adobe?Customer Review: Great product for my 9 year old
Summary: 4 Stars
My son wanted to produce videos for YouTube. This was not the most intuitive solution for him...I had to learn it first, then teach it to him. But once we got past the basics, he took over and figured out a lot on his own. It's really perfect for him.Customer Review: One Confusing Memory Hog
Summary: 2 Stars
THE GOOD:
This is one POWERFUL program! (when it doesn't crash). Its main strength for me is the flexibility it offers when using the Picture In Picture, Text, and overall creative controls. If you are an experienced video editor, the world is yours with this program. There is nothing you can not accomplish. You will end up with a professional quality unmatched by any other video editing program I have ever encountered. Truly outstanding accomplishments!
THE BAD:
The User Interface is cheap looking, and does not offer a sense of confidence as you try to work through your project.
The software will CRASH unpredictably but consistently, this makes you have to save your project every two seconds because you don't know when the next crash is coming. I am running this software on an AlienWare computer with ample memory, a speedy 7200 rpm drive and Windows 64Bit Vista.
The feeling you get when you finish a project is like finishing a 1000 mile trip in a junker car. You feel lucky that you made it, and don't look forward to doing it again -- yet you know you will. This software is a computer-resources hog from hell. It feels as though your machine is being taxed to its limits just to keep the software open.
I often lose files (misplaced) from the visual video library. Where are they?! I have to import it again!
Additionally, the output files are way too big in size! (almost any format). I have to b
Customer Review: Misleading advertising
Summary: 2 Stars
This was marketed as easy to use. It is not. At start up you keep getting prompted to join thier video club every time you start the application. Then you have to select a new project or recent project. It won't let you just start to look at files unless you select something.Very annoying. The get media option doesn't work if you choose HD camera. The camera is not recognized. It does show a a USB hard drive but than you need to dig through folder etc. to find what you need. I have to use the cheesy software that came with the camera to copy video from the cam to the computer because from what I can see there isn't a way to do this from Premiere Elements. The documentation is poor. Would get a full refund if I could and try Corel.Customer Review: A happy Photoshop CS user
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a bit surprised at some of the negative reviews here. I guess people want different things. For me, as a Photoshop CS4 user wanting to develop some chops in video this seemed like a reasonable way to go. And I have not been disappointed. I feel comfortable with the Adobe interface style that I'm used to and I find the software intuitive to use. I like the panels and being able to spread the workspace out over my monitors. So far everything seems to work as it should.
My one piece of advice if you don't want to be disappointed is to be sure you've got at least a dual core processor with a few gigs of memory and the right video card. Video is after all an intensive computer operation. My next purchase will surely be a 1TB drive for a little more elbow room with these large files. By the way I'm using Vista 64 with no problems.