Adobe Premiere Elements 7 [OLD VERSION]

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Enjoy a variety of easy ways to show off your movies. Share far and wide by uploading directly to YouTube, or share with family and friends on your personal website. Burn to DVD or Blu-ray Disc. Or play your movies on mobile phones and other portable media devices. Click to enlarge.

Let Adobe Premiere Elements automatically analyze and tag your footage based on quality and interest (such as brightness, focus, or content) to make it easy to choose the best clips for your movies. Click to enlarge.

Add visual appeal with hundreds of effects and transitions, interactive disc menus, animated titles, and professional credits. Click to enlarge.

Go from camera to DVD or Blu-ray Disc, complete with menu and scene index, in a few easy steps.

Instantly create polished movies with no effort. Just choose a theme, and InstantMovie automatically edits your footage using Hollywood directors' techniques.

Do it all with one powerful yet easy-to-use product
Use Adobe Premiere Elements 7 software with Photoshop.com* for all your video needs: import and organize your clips; edit them together yourself or choose automated options to effortlessly create incredible movies; enhance your movies with knockout visual and audio effects, titles, and interactive disc menus; share them on the web, disc, and everywhere else; protect your videos; and view them anywhere you are.

*Available only in the U.S.

Introducing new Photoshop.com membership*
Works with Adobe Premiere Elements 7 to help you protect your videos from computer loss and hard drive crashes with automatic online backup and enough storage (2GB) for up to an hour of DVD-quality video, and access your movies and clips anywhere you are. Upgrade to Plus membership at any time and get 15GB more storage, and a variety of inspiring ideas, tutorials, movie themes, and special effects delivered regularly to your software.

*Available only in the U.S.

Quickly find your best clips
Let Adobe Premiere Elements automatically analyze and tag your footage, so you can quickly find your most interesting, highest quality clips.

Create a polished movie, instantly
Create polished movies with no effort. Just choose a theme, and InstantMovie automatically edits together your best clips with coordinated music, titles, effects, and transitions. You can even customize the final result if you wish.

Conveniently share your movie and enjoy the latest technology
Follow easy steps to create your movie once, and then in the Sharing Center choose to save it to disc, the web, or mobile devices. 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.

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.

Easily enhance with dazzling effects and transitions
Choose from hundreds of amazing special effects and TV-style transitions that you can drag onto your movie to add a unique look.

Start quickly with all your media at your fingertips
Find what you need fast using an Organizer similar to the one in Adobe Photoshop Elements software. Visually tag clips to categorize by people, places, or events, and easily browse thumbnails in the new clip preview and tagging window. Then search and sort files by date or ratings, or browse Smart Tags to quickly find your best clips.

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.

Personalize your movies
Add polish and personality with custom, interactive disc menus, animated titles, and professionally designed credits.

Use footage from virtually any device, including AVCHD camcorders
Bring in video from all your devices, including the latest camcorders (even high-definition AVCHD), digital cameras, webcams, and mobile phones.

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PE7 Took PE4, which was Nice, Tried to Enhance, But the Release is Not Stable! Too Many Crashes & Freezes!, October 28, 2009
By Bruce B. Razban (Silicon Valley, CA)
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.




Don't expect your refund, October 28, 2009
By DAM (Indy, IN)
The program is pretty sub-par, but my rating is only one star because they stiffed me on the refund.

They make you send in a "special tab" from the box. They claimed I didn't send it (which I did), so what do I do now? Great job Adobe, you got $20.00 but lost a customer for life.



Does not work on vista with usb input, October 21, 2009
By Anton Dotschkal (South Carolina)
I am finding it increasingly difficult to find a video transfer program that will work on my laptop with usb only inputs using Windows Vista as a platform. The problem is centered on the "Capture" phase of the video transfer. Most VHS to DVD programs work fine once you can get the video to be stored in a file on your computer. The problem is getting that video into a computer file.



Stay away if your running Vista, October 15, 2009
By WTH (Iowa)
This program has many memory crash problems. Im running Vista Home Pre 32 bit on a Dell 530 desktop, Core 2 Duo 2.33ghz, 4gig of ram, and a sata HDD with 90 gig of free space and all microsoft updates. Im using AVCHD files off a Canon HF200 camcorder. These are the hi res 24mbps mts files. PE ver 7 usually crashes at the 93% rendering point, which is just when the rendering from AVCHD/mts to DVD format ends, and the burn to disc starts. Would also not recommend the new ver 8 that just came out early this month, unless you can find where Adobe has cured this problem with the new ver8.



Adobe Premiere Elements 7, October 13, 2009
By Wilsson E. Alexander
Great program for movimg slideshows to DVD. The help screen is realy bad and it takes some work to get all the items you might want to add to your DVDs.