Adobe Premiere Elements
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Adobe Premiere Elements is a video editing software
application for nonlinear video editing, published by Adobe Systems
. It is a scaled-down version of the professional-level Adobe Premiere Pro
, and is optionally bundled with Adobe Photoshop Elements
. In 2006, it was identified as the number one selling consumer video editing software. Its main competitors are AVS Video Editor
, Cyberlink PowerDirector
, Pinnacle Studio
, Sony Vegas Movie Studio
, Sony Vegas
, Corel VideoStudio
, and iMovie
.
Unlike many of its competitors, Premiere Elements can handle unlimited video and audio tracks, with multiple keyframed effects applied to each clip, as well as Picture-in-picture
and chromakey capabilities. It also supports many third-party plug-ins for additional features, including Premiere Pro plug-ins, After Effects
plug-ins, and VST effects. It can create bars and tone and a countdown leader, just like Premiere Pro.
This program also features real-time video rendering which allows the user to instantly preview edits made to the timeline.
Premiere Elements is available for Windows XP
and, beginning with version 3.0.2, for Windows Vista
and Windows 7. Also, beginning with version 9.0, Premiere Elements is made available for MacOS X.
Video editing software
Video editing software, is application software which handles the post-production video editing of digital video sequences on a computer non-linear editing systems...
application for nonlinear video editing, published by Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
. It is a scaled-down version of the professional-level Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application. It is part of the Adobe Creative Suite, a suite of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications developed by Adobe Systems, though it can also be purchased separately. When purchased separately, it comes...
, and is optionally bundled with Adobe Photoshop Elements
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Adobe Photoshop Elements is the consumer version of the Adobe Photoshop raster image editing product, targeted at hobbyist users and hence sold at a fraction of the cost of the professional product. It contains most of the features of the professional version but with fewer and simpler options...
. In 2006, it was identified as the number one selling consumer video editing software. Its main competitors are AVS Video Editor
AVS Video Editor
AVS Video Editor is a shareware video editing software tool produced by Online Media Technologies Ltd., the direct vendor of multimedia video and audio solutions, UK. The program is intended for those who are new to video editing, it also is a real-time, timeline-based video editing software...
, Cyberlink PowerDirector
PowerDirector
CyberLink PowerDirector is a video editing software application for non-linear video editing, published by CyberLink Corporation. PowerDirector allows users to capture, edit and output from within the software and has semi-professional features suitable for the consumer level...
, Pinnacle Studio
Pinnacle Studio
Pinnacle Studio is a non-linear video editing software application manufactured by Pinnacle Systems, a division of Avid Technology. It is the consumer-level counterpart to Pinnacle's former professional-level software, Liquid Edition . It also inherits from VOB Computersysteme's Instant CD/DVD...
, Sony Vegas Movie Studio
Sony Vegas Movie Studio
Sony Vegas Movie Studio is a consumer-based nonlinear video editing software designed for the PC. It is a scaled-down version of Sony Vegas. Vegas Movie Studio was formerly called "Sonic Foundry VideoFactory" and then "Sony Screenblast Movie Studio," still using the same Vegas interface and...
, Sony Vegas
Sony Vegas
Sony Vegas is a professional video editing software package for non-linear editing systems originally published by Sonic Foundry, now owned and run by Sony Creative Software. Originally developed as an audio editor, it eventually developed into an NLE for video and audio from version 2.0...
, Corel VideoStudio
Ulead VideoStudio
Corel VideoStudio is a video editing software package for Microsoft Windows distributed by Ulead Systems . The latest version of the software is X4 released on February 24, 2011.-Basic editing:...
, and iMovie
IMovie
iMovie is a proprietary video editing software application which allows Mac, iPod Touch 4th generation, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and iPad 2 users to edit their own home movies. It was originally released by Apple in 1999 as a Mac OS 8 application bundled with the first FireWire-enabled consumer Apple...
.
Unlike many of its competitors, Premiere Elements can handle unlimited video and audio tracks, with multiple keyframed effects applied to each clip, as well as Picture-in-picture
Picture-in-picture
Picture in Picture is a feature of some television receivers and similar devices. One program is displayed on the full TV screen at the same time as one or more other programs are displayed in inset windows. Sound is usually from the main program only.Picture in Picture requires two independent...
and chromakey capabilities. It also supports many third-party plug-ins for additional features, including Premiere Pro plug-ins, After Effects
Adobe After Effects
Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software published by Adobe Systems, used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production. Its main uses are the origination of 2D and 2.5D animation, visual effects compositing and finishing...
plug-ins, and VST effects. It can create bars and tone and a countdown leader, just like Premiere Pro.
This program also features real-time video rendering which allows the user to instantly preview edits made to the timeline.
Premiere Elements is available for Windows XP
Windows XP
Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops and media centers. First released to computer manufacturers on August 24, 2001, it is the second most popular version of Windows, based on installed user base...
and, beginning with version 3.0.2, for Windows Vista
Windows Vista
Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...
and Windows 7. Also, beginning with version 9.0, Premiere Elements is made available for MacOS X.
Product History
- Adobe Premiere Elements 1.0 – Released September 2004. It was focused on consumer miniDVDVDV is a format for the digital recording and playing back of digital video. The DV codec was launched in 1995 with joint efforts of leading producers of video camcorders....
camcorderCamcorderA camcorder is an electronic device that combines a video camera and a video recorder into one unit. Equipment manufacturers do not seem to have strict guidelines for the term usage...
owners who wanted to create DVDDVDA DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
s. It was codenamed Dick Tracy after Adobe Premiere's theme of detective code names. The development team for this product was based at Adobe's offices in San Jose, California, Arden Hills, Minnesota, and Noida, India.
- Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 – Released September 2005. Adobe expanded video device support beyond DV camcorders to include digital still cameras that capture video (MJPEG, MPEG4, etc.), DVD camcorders (.vob files), mobile phoneMobile phoneA mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
s (.3GP, .3G2, .MP4) and new hybrid video devices like the JVCJVC, usually referred to as JVC, is a Japanese international consumer and professional electronics corporation based in Yokohama, Japan which was founded in 1927...
Everio and Everio G (.MOD). It also aimed to address the lack of DVD configurability, one of the main criticisms of version 1. Unlike the first version, PE2.0 may not work with AMD processors, or Intel processors that do not support the SSE2SSE2SSE2, Streaming SIMD Extensions 2, is one of the Intel SIMD processor supplementary instruction sets first introduced by Intel with the initial version of the Pentium 4 in 2001. It extends the earlier SSE instruction set, and is intended to fully supplant MMX. Intel extended SSE2 to create SSE3...
instructions.
- Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 – Released in September 2006. Adobe added HDVHDVHDV is a format for recording of high-definition video on DV cassette tape. The format was originally developed by JVC and supported by Sony, Canon and Sharp...
support, stop motionStop motionStop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...
capture, audio narration, full-screen playback, and the ability to capture from WDMWindows Driver ModelIn computing, the Windows Driver Model — also known at one point as the Win32 Driver Model — is a framework for device drivers that was introduced with Windows 98 and Windows 2000 to replace VxD, which was used on older versions of Windows such as Windows 95 and Windows 3.1, as well...
sources (such as webcamWebcamA webcam is a video camera that feeds its images in real time to a computer or computer network, often via USB, ethernet, or Wi-Fi.Their most popular use is the establishment of video links, permitting computers to act as videophones or videoconference stations. This common use as a video camera...
s and analog capture cards). This version improved ease of use by adding Sceneline editing and allowing titles to be created and edited directly in the Monitor. New export formats were added for mobile phones, iPodIPodiPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle...
s and PSPPlayStation PortableThe is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Corporation Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 2004...
s. An updated 3.0.2 version was the first to support Windows Vista, although only Vista 32-bit.
- Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 - Released in September 2007. Adobe added a Sharing Centre, an image stabilizationImage stabilizationImage stabilization is a family of techniques used to reduce blurring associated with the motion of a camera during exposure. Specifically, it compensates for pan and tilt of a camera or other imaging device. It is used in image-stabilized binoculars, still and video cameras, and astronomical...
filter and the ability to upload video files directly to YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
. It also includes more video effects and transitions, a slightly-modified user interface allowing beginners to easily get started with the program (although it still retains unlimited video and audio tracks), the ability to burn Blu-ray DVDs, an audio mixer (like the version on Premiere Pro) and movie themes similar to the ones from iMovie HD 6. This version includes features such as Easily organize your photos and video clips from one convenient place, Organize video clips and photos with visual tags, Create your movie with drag-and-drop ease in the Scene line, Easily edit slide shows and movies to the beat of a favorite song, Jazz up the action with effects, transitions, and movie themes, Add animated titles, motion menus, and polished credits, Share movies on DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and Mobile Devices, & Easily upload to YouTube™*.
- Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0 - Released in October 2008,. The version number skipped 5.0 and 6.0 were skipped in order to match Photoshop Elements 7.0 version in the bundle version. This version includes AVCHDAVCHDAVCHD is a file-based format for the digital recording and playback of high-definition video....
support, an automatic movie-creation wizard (similar to Pinnacle Studio's SmartMovie and iMovie HD 6's Magic iMovie), a built-in SmartSoundSmartSoundSmartSound Software Inc. is an American computer software and royalty free music company headquartered in Northridge, California, USA. The company is focused on providing production music that can be made to a custom length using their patented process....
music generator (previous versions would only work with SmartSound via a free plug-in downloaded from the SmartSound website), enhanced chroma-key technology, among other features. It still retains the ease of use and prosumer-style technology of Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0. This version includes new features such as View your movies from any web-enabled computer*, Quickly find your best video clips and photos with the Auto-Analyzer, Enjoy optimized editing, even when working with HD also known as High-Definition, Let Instant Movie automatically create a movie using creative techniques from Hollywood directors, Easily combine elements from different videos for entertaining results, Add musical soundtracks that automatically adjust to match the length of your movie, Easily combine elements from different videos for entertaining results, & Add musical soundtracks that automatically adjust to match the length of your movie.
- Adobe Premiere Elements 8.0 - Released in October 2009,. This version includes a new Easily find, view, and organize videos and photos in the fully featured Organizer, See full-screen video and photo previews in the Organizer, See the same videos and photos on all of your computers with automatic syncing*, Get automatic online backup and 2GB of storage* — enough for up to 24 minutes of DVD-quality video†, Get help with how-tos that appear just when you need them†, Have shaky footage and color and lighting problems fixed automatically, Have unwanted footage trimmed automatically, Use automated options to intelligently balance audio elements, Use motion tracking to add graphics that automatically move with the subjects in your scenes, & Add graphics, frames, and animations from a clip art library. media manager view, several features aimed at automatically compensating for video problems such as camera shake, and support for Windows 7 and Windows Touch, among other features.
- Adobe Premiere Elements 9.0 - Released in September 21, 2010 for Windows and Mac. This version includes a new easily import clips from compact camcorders like Flip cameras as well as from DSLR still camera, Easily fix audio problems, & Give your movies a fun cartoon look. Easily create a convenient web DVD viewing experience, Along with older version features just a few changes & add ons.
- Adobe Premiere Elements 10.0 - Released on September 19, 2011 for Windows and Mac. This version includes a couple of new functions; a button where you can upload your videos directly to Facebook.com & having the videos on your HOME it's as easy as uploading it to YouTube.com. (64-Bit Ready)
See also
- List of video editing software
- Comparison of video editing softwareComparison of video editing softwareThis is a comparison of non-linear video editing software applications. See also a more complete list of video editing software.-General information:This table gives basic general information about the different editors:- System requirements :...
- Adobe Premiere ExpressAdobe Premiere ExpressAdobe Premiere Express is a rich Internet application for simple editing of digital video files.The release was announced on February 21, 2007...
- Adobe Premiere ProAdobe Premiere ProAdobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application. It is part of the Adobe Creative Suite, a suite of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications developed by Adobe Systems, though it can also be purchased separately. When purchased separately, it comes...