Product Description

Presenting Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0. with everything you need to create videos that thrill your friends and family. The perfect combination of superior control, ease of use, and reliability, Premiere Elements automates tedious tasks so you can be creative more quickly. Import video clips from all of your digital video devices, then experiment with hundreds of professional transitions and effects to grab your audience. Burn your videos to DVD, complete with custom menus for that personal touch, or transfer them to your portable video players to wow your audience anytime, anywhere. Try anything! With Auto Save, multiple undos, and the History panel, you can always go back to a previous version Create a rich, full soundtrack for your video with Dolby® Digital stereo, up to 99 audio tracks, and precise waveform controls Edit as fast as you can with support for multiple processors, advanced multi-threading technology, and Hyper-Threading Technology on the latest Intel Pentium based Windows XP systems Built-in coaching Focus on telling your story with a flexible workspacethat automatically resizes and adjusts to your needs?no more clicking around to open and close panels Roll credits in more than 100 professionally designed templates Works with Windows XP Professional, Home Edition, or Media Center Edition with Service Pack 2

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2863 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Released on: 2005-10-05
• Platform: Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds

Features

• Create your own home videos and movies with simple, yet powerful tools
• New Media Downloader lets you import files from virtually any device
• Custom editing studio gives you a flexible workspace that adjusts to your needs
• Customize with hundreds of special effects and preview changes before applying them
• Build personalized DVD menus from templates or create your own

From the Manufacturer
Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 software makes it easy to create home videos like a famous director. And it's brought to you by the makers of Adobe Photoshop, the #1 image-editing software in the world. Create and edit your masterpiece by telling your story with video, photos, and music. Harness the power of a Hollywood studio with special effects, titles, credits, and professional-quality Dolby Digital sound. Then show your movie to family and friends anywhere—on personalized DVDs, VHS, the Web, and more.

Why Upgrade

Now you can personalize your DVD menus with your own video, photos, text, and moving backgrounds; preview effects and transitions before you apply them; and enjoy a more flexible workspace that automatically adjusts so you don’t have to open and close panels. Easily download video clips from virtually any device, including digital cameras and cell phones. New Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 software expands your creative options and makes home video editing even easier.

Top New Features

• Be creative more quickly. Easily transfer footage by USB or FireWire directly to the timeline so you can start editing sooner.
• Grab from virtually any media device. Use the new Media Downloader to import video, audio, and still images from virtually any device, including DV and DVD camcorders, unprotected DVDs, digital still cameras, MPEG-4 video recorders, and cell phones.
• Build dynamic, personalized DVD menus. Be an art director! Design custom DVD menus from scratch, or choose from dozens of menu templates that you can personalize with your own images and audio. Add moving backgrounds, move and resize buttons, edit text, and more.
• Wow your audience anytime, anywhere. Show your finished movies on the go by transferring them to portable video players.
• Work in a custom editing studio. Focus on telling your story with a flexible workspace that automatically resizes and adjusts to your needs—no more clicking around to open and close panels.
• Sneak-preview effects. Save time and eliminate guesswork by clicking thumbnails that let you preview effects and transitions before you apply them.
• Dazzle your audience. Choose from hundreds of amazing special effects that you can customize and use again.
• Find tools at your fingertips. No more searching! With the new Properties panel, see the filters and effects you’ve applied to any frame so you can quickly reproduce or change them.
• Save work in progress. Easily transfer a project and all its media to another computer, or archive it to edit later.
• Enjoy rich Dolby Digital sound. Give your audience movie-theater sound by automatically converting audio to industry-standard Dolby Digital stereo. Dolby technology compresses your audio while maintaining high fidelity, allowing you to burn more video onto a single disc without sacrificing sound quality.
• Burn DVDs in a snap. Reliably go from camcorder to disc in a few clicks. Fit hours of video on a single- or dual-layer DVD that’s optimized for best results.

Customer Reviews

Buy the New upgrade
Started with this software but the new upgrade ( Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and Premier 4) are vastly superior. Go for the new upgrade, it's great and far superior to his version.

Very Disappointed
I decided to buy Adobe, partly because of the brand name. As it turns out, I'm looking for another video editing program because this one is so bad.
I struggled through the capturing and editing steps. Throughout, I ran into snags and error messages. Sometimes a caption or picture would show in the timeline and sometimes not. Sounds like a shortage of memory problem, you're probably thinking. Well, I have 1 G of RAM and plenty of free Hard Drive Space (over 50GB), and yet, I constantly ran into problems.
I made sure that all other applications were not running and restarted to clear the memory constantly.
Finally, after struggling through, I completed my project,only to find out that it would NOT burn a DVD. I kept getting "transcoding" errors and "System memory" issues. I followed the troubleshooting guide without success.
There is no Tech Support unless you pay for it!! What a RIP!! Make a defective product and then, charge to get advice on how to fix it!!! What a racket!!!
I would have thought Adobe could do better.

Good semi-professional program for the money.
I purchased this program along with the package that bundled Photoshop Elements. Both of them are good value for the money for what they do, while they do not have all the features of their bigger cousins they have powerful features for basic and semi-professional looking work depending on your needs.

I work with professional programs and use them on professional works, for basic videos or things that need to look a bit more than basic I use Premiere Elements and Pinnacle Studio which I both own.

While Pinnacle Studio (version 9) has various powerful features including some advanced tools which have various advantages over the very basic editing programs (say iMovie or Windows Movie Maker) like adding professional looking transitions, sound effects filters, more advanced DVD authoring, outputting video in various formats, and even some advanced video transition and effects it is sometimes not enough if you need to add more than two layers of sound or video or require to add a few more advanced video effects.

That said, while I like Pinnacle Studio and various of its advanced features over the more simple programs it is heavily directed towards the standard consumer who just wants to make his/her videos look well. Premiere Elements on the other hand seems to be directed toward the more advanced, enthusiast and semi-professional crowd.

While the manuals and help topics help you get started quickly, I see that it is better to have prior experience with more advanced video editing to be able to understand and use this program better and exploit its capabilities.

Various advantages of this program are the ability of adding and working with more advanced video masks, mattes, more than two layers of video and sound, as well as more control over the sound and video itself in regards to be able to perform and add various effects, not to mention some of the more advanced text and titling tools.

While various aspects of the interface is more simplified than its bigger cousin to make it more average user friendly, various tools could look complicated to the non experienced user (in fact, some of them are meant to be due to their advanced nature).

While quite advanced for the money and its capabilities, Adobe Premiere Elements is not enough for professional or really complicated projects as it may have issues handling those due to lack of tools or a very lage project’s complexity.

I would only recommend this software for semi-professional users or video enthusiasts with more than average video editing knowledge.