Adobe Premiere Elements

Premiere Elements [pri - myer e - lə - mənts ] is a video editing software which is specifically designed for the home user area. Premiere Elements is the little brother of Adobe Premiere, were taken from the technically many functions. However, Premiere Elements has a different user interface that is designed to make interesting functions for beginners easy to find, to offer enough features without advanced users. The software is available for Windows XP, since version 3.0.2 for Windows Vista and Windows 7. Since version 9, two separate DVDs for Mac OS X version are included in the package.

Similar programs in the segment are eg MAGIX Movie Edit Pro, Pinnacle Studio, Corel VideoStudio, etc.

Functions

One of the basic features include video editing (even in HD ), audio editing, numerous video effects, a variety of transitions, effects (eg for color correction and Blue-/Greenscreen ), the ability to create DVD or Blu -ray menus (also DVD authoring called ) and other useful tools such as the production of texts, etc. in addition, the software can open and read numerous video formats such as AVCHD, MPEG, MOV and AVI and save in different video formats.

User interface

The interface of the program is oriented to the needs of video editing beginners and consists of dockable windows. The most important are:

  • Monitor ( preview the edited movie with buttons for play and pause as well as a " shuttle " to fast forward and rewind )
  • My project ( time bar with the pasted into the project audio and video clips on a customizable number of audio and video tracks )
  • Tasks ( window with the "Organize" tab ( inserting video clips into the project ), "Edit" ( effects, transitions, titles, and clip art), "Disc Menu" ( inserting a DVD or BD menus ) and " Share " ( Save of the film), from where you can drag items in the drag'n'drop method to the " My Project " window )

Revision history

  • Adobe Premiere Elements 1.0 ( released September 2004) was intended primarily for users with MiniDV camcorders that wanted to create DVDs from their slots. The development team for this first version worked mainly in the Adobe offices in San Jose (California ) Arden Hills (Minnesota) and Noida (India).
  • With Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 ( released September 2005) Advanced Adobe 's support of video formats, the program also for users of digital photo cameras with video function (MJPEG, MPEG- 4, etc. ), DVD Camcorder (VOB) and mobile phones ( 3gp etc to make. ) available. Unlike the first version version 2 did not work with processors from AMD and some Intel processors that do not support SSE2.
  • With Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 ( released September 2006) Adobe Advanced functions for HDV, stop-motion recording, audio commentaries, full screen preview and recording of WDM devices. Also, you could now be exported directly to video formats for iPods and PSPs. The later released version 3.0.2 was compatible with Windows Vista, but only with the 32- bit version first.
  • Since Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 ( released September 2007) there is the possibility to stabilize videos and upload them directly from the program on the video platform YouTube. In addition, this version more video transitions and effects and an audio mixer as contained in Premiere Pro. The user interface has been slightly modified.
  • With Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0 ( released October 2008), the version numbers 5 and 6 were skipped to the equalize the version of Photoshop Elements. These two products have since been sold in a bundle package. The version contained AVCHD support, an automatic movie generator ( as SmartMovie in Pinnacle Studio or Magic iMovie in Apple's iMovie ), a pre-installed Smart Sound Generator ( in the previous versions had this a free plug- in to be downloaded from the SmartSound website ) improved chroma key capabilities and many other features.
  • Adobe Premiere Elements 8.0 ( released October 2009) contained a new " Organize" view as well as support for Windows 7, the multi- touch capabilities and some other functions.
  • Adobe Premiere Elements 9.0 ( released on September 21, 2010), this version is the first time also available for Mac OS X. The design was slightly changed and the program now supports 24p projects.
  • Adobe Premiere Elements 10.0 ( released on 26 September 2011) contains a function to release on YouTube and Facebook, the latter including tagging. In addition, the HD capabilities have been improved.
  • Adobe Premiere Elements 12.0 ( released September 2013 )
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