Adobe Premiere Elements 9 [Old Version]
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Software Summary
Manufacturer: AdobeBrand: Adobe
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: DVD-ROM
Release Date: 2010-09-28
Platform: Mac OS X, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Model: 65087877
Product features:
- Adobe Premiere Elements 9 software offers a complete solution for easy moviemaking
- Take the work out of video editing and make professional-looking movies with entertaining visual and audio effects
- Enjoy hassle-free sharing to YouTube, Facebook, your website, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and mobile devices
- Automatically organize all your video clips and photos from one convenient place
- Enjoy automatic online backup with 2GB of free storage, and access your videos and photos virtually anywhere
Software Reviews of Adobe Premiere Elements 9 [Old Version]
Customer Review: Excellent Tools, but Should Perform Better
Summary: 3 Stars
Premiere Elements 9 is the latest version of Adobe's consumer-oriented video editing software application. Until about a month ago, my exposure to video editing software was fairly limited. Corel's VideoStudio Pro X4 was my first serious experience with such software and I was very impressed with Corel's offering. I was very excited to give Premiere Elements 9 (PRE9) a try next because I just knew that it would take my video editing to the next level. I had a stellar experience with Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 so I expected more of the same from PRE9.
PROS:
- Fun DVD creation tools
- Good audio cleanup tools
- Auto level effect can help clean up videos
- Large selection of transitions and effects
- Logical layout
- Good sharing/export options
CONS:
- Inconsistent performance
- Not quite as intuitive to use as competition
- Included Titles are fun but professional-looking Titles are not included
Generally speaking, video applications tend to have some of the highest system requirements of any program you could run on your computer. Professionals have large budgets so they can afford the best hardware for their workstations. The average home user on the other hand, may have once had a top-of-the-line system, but might now be anywhere from 1-5 years old. For everything but modern high-end games, this is usually just fine. My home-built system is about 3-4 years old but met PRE9's system requirements easily. It ran Corel's VideoStudio Pro X4 fairly well so I had no worries about PRE9- that is, until I started using it.
PERFORMANCE
When working with a video clip, I was able to preview the clip without a glitch. However, as soon as I began adding effects, transitions, or titles, the preview was almost unwatchable. It stuttered so much, that it would completely skip over elements like the transition. I was unable to actually preview the work I was doing. Scrolling through the included titles was slow as well and my cursor would show busy for up to three seconds before allowing me to continue scrolling.
I ended up calling Adobe support and they were very helpful and polite. Unfortunately, resetting my default settings didn't help, nor did any of their other suggestions. They suggested that there was a newer version of my NVIDIA video card driver, but when I went to the NVIDIA website, the latest driver was the driver I was already using. I even uninstalled my driver and reinstalled it to no effect. As a last straw, I even overclocked my video card- something I never do. That didn't help either.
ORGANIZE
PRE9 is separated into four distinct functions-Organize, Edit, Disc Menus and Share. It's very similar to VideoStudio Pro X4 except that PRE9 includes the Disc Menus option. Organize is the first option in PRE9 and allows you to easily import videos from a variety of sources and add them to an album.
EDIT
After you've dragged a clip from an album, you can click on the Edit tab to start working on it. If all you want to do is get your video clips onto a DVD or upload them to YouTube, you can go straight to the Share tab. However, if you want to try and improve the video quality or add titles, a soundtrack, or do some other fun and creative things to the clip, you can do so in this tab.
The default layout of the Edit step works well and is almost exactly like VideoStudio Pro X4. It's broken down into three sections. On the top left, you have the video preview screen. On the top right, are effects, transitions, filters, themes, and clip art. The entire bottom half of the layout is the timeline (or sceneline). This is where you insert all the videos, effects, and audio. It's pretty intuitive. The timeline reads from left to right and there are multiple rows of "Tracks." By default, three Video plus Audio tracks are listed, three additional audio tracks, a narration track and a soundtrack.
Adding elements to these tracks allow you to customize each track and then match them up to work with the entire project. It's a fairly simple process to add your own music as a soundtrack or effects to express your creative side. Of course, because I experienced performance problems, it did get cumbersome waiting to scroll through the different options and once I added them, I was unable to preview their effect on the video. One effect I was actually able to observe was the Auto Level effect. It cleaned up some of the lighting issues on my clip and improved the overall quality.
DISC MENUS
If you want to create DVD's of your videos, menus are a good way to make the DVD more fun to watch and easier to find segments or clips. PRE9 includes a separate tab to help create fun looking menus but the selection of menus is fairly limited. I would have appreciated at least one generic-looking menu template to go along with some of the fun styles that were offered.
SHARE
The last function of Premiere Elements 9 is the share function. This allows you to create a disc, record to DV tape, upload online, and create a video file. The options here are fairly self explanatory and are easy to use. Online uploads are limited to just YouTube, Photoshop.com, and Podbean. The process of creating a video file is called rendering. Rendering can take a long time, depending on how long and complex your video is and the type of file you've chosen to save it as. Knowing which type you should use is important before you render it because you could end up wasting a lot of time waiting for the render to complete, only to find out that the file you created isn't going to work for you. I should mention that even though I had performance issues that caused problems previewing clips as I worked on them, that once I rendered them, they came out perfectly.
CONCLUSION
Adobe Premiere Elements 9 isn't quite what I was expecting. On the one hand, it has lots of useful tools that work well to improve videos and add some creativity to them. On the other hand, working in PRE9 was frustrating because of performance issues that I should not have experienced, given that my system exceeded the system requirements. In my opinion, Adobe should have done one of two things to really help consumers who were looking at PRE9 as an option. They should have either optimized the application better to work with older hardware or published a more realistic system requirement. I highly recommend downloading the 30-day trial to see how well your system runs PRE9 first. If it works, then I have no problem recommending PRE9.
* Review license courtesy of Adobe Systems
Description of Adobe Premiere Elements 9 [Old Version]
Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 & Adobe Premiere Elements 9 software delivers powerful options that make it easy to use photos and videos together and share in entertaining ways. Now enjoy a complete solution for photos and videos whether you use Windows or Mac OS.Incredible movies, effortlessly! Adobe Premiere Elements 9--the newest version of the #1 selling video-editing software--delivers powerful, automated moviemaking options, professional-quality effects, and optimized HD and SD editing. Share quickly via convenient web DVD viewing experiences and on disc, mobile devices, Facebook, and YouTube. Automatically organize and help protect all your video clips and photos. And now enjoy a complete solution for videos whether you use Microsoft Windows or Mac OS.
Now enjoy a complete solution for videos whether you use Microsoft Windows or Mac OS.
Do It All With One Powerful Yet Easy-to-Use Product
Use Adobe Premiere Elements 9 software for all your video needs. Import and organize your video clips, and edit them together yourself or use automated options. Make your movies look like professional productions with amazing special effects, sound, titles, and Hollywood-style motion menus. Quickly share via the web, disc, and virtually anywhere else. Help protect your media with automatic online backup and 2GB of free storage--and view videos and photos virtually anywhere you are.
Create a Polished Movie Instantly
Take advantage of creative techniques from Hollywood directors with InstantMovie, which automatically edits together your best clips with coordinated music, titles, effects, and transitions from your choice of movie theme. Customize anything to get just the results you envision. All-new themes are included.
Save Time With Automated Options
Make movies with less effort. Adobe Premiere Elements can automatically fix shaky footage and color and lighting problems, trim away all but your best footage, and balance audio elements to give you professional-quality sound throughout your movie.
Quickly Find the Clips You're Looking For
Want to find your best video clips or clips that meet a particular set of criteria? The Auto-Analyzer automatically tags your footage and photos for quality and interest, and a variety of smart search options makes it easy to zero in on just what you need.
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.
Add Professional-Quality Effects and Transitions
Add entertaining graphics that automatically follow the action in your movie. Easily combine elements from different scenes for entertaining results. And add visual appeal with hundreds of amazing special effects and TV-style transitions, including several all-new options.
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.
Get Creative Inspiration
Bring your ideas to life with relevant how-tos that appear just when you need them. New how-tos help you explore creative possibilities.
Conveniently Share Your Movie and Enjoy the Latest Technology
Follow easy steps to create your movie once and then share it on disc, the web, or mobile devices--even treat friends and family to an interactive web DVD viewing experience. 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.
Top New Benefits
Share in an Exciting New Way on the Web
Debut your movie with a convenient, interactive web DVD viewing experience. Easily share your movie?complete with a scene index and chapter menus?on Photoshop.com or your own website.
Quickly Share Videos and Photos on Facebook
Conveniently share videos and photos on Facebook directly from the Organizer, which automatically optimizes your media so it looks its best.
Easily Import From Compact Camcorders and More
Easily bring in video from compact camcorders like Flip cameras and DSLR still cameras. Easily fix audio problems?Easily reduce background noise and fix problems with audio volume and clarity so your movie has high-quality sound from start to finish.
Jazz up the Action
Give your movie an eye-catching cartoon look. Choose from a variety of animation styles, and customize as you wish.
Enjoy Optimized HD Editing
Experience fluid responsiveness and high performance when editing video, even HD.
Now Available for Mac
If you use a Mac for your videos, you can now enjoy the power and simplicity of Adobe Premiere Elements software. Choose automated options to effortlessly create incredible movies or enhance your movies with professional-quality effects and Hollywood-style motion menus. Then share your movies on the web, disc, and virtually everywhere else, help protect them with automatic online backup and 2GB of free storage, and view them virtually anywhere you are.
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