Product Description

Easy video editing.  Incredible movies



Make incredible movies in minutes with Adobe Premiere Elements 7 software. Getstarted quickly with new, automated options that find your best clips for you,and instantly turn them into polished movies using Hollywood directors'techniques. And now, extend the capabilities of your software with newPhotoshop.com Plus* membership that includes:

• Ongoing delivery of tutorials, movie themes, and special effects
• 20GB of online storage
• And access to your videos virtually anywhere you are

* Annual membership terms apply; Photoshop.commembership/subscription is nonrefundable.  Available in the U.S. only

Stay connected with family, friends, andmemories

Get fresh inspiration, just when you need it New
Turn your video clips into polished movies with cool ideas, tutorials, moviethemes, and special effects that are delivered regularly to your software.

Backup your memories automatically, no scheduling required New
Help protect your videos from computer loss and hard drive crashes withautomatic online backup and 20GB of storage - that's up to four hours ofDVD-quality video.

Set up a screening virtually anywhere New
Access your movies and clips from any web-enabled computer.

Create

Get started quickly with all your video clips at your fingertips and avariety of new automated options for transforming them into polish

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #343 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 65026874
• Released on: 2008-10-13
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 5.50" h x 7.50" w x 1.30" l, 1.50 pounds

Features

• Stay connected with your favorite people and memories with new Photoshop.com membership
• Get started quickly with automated moviemaking options
• Enhance your stories with knockout visuals and sound
• Share on YouTube, your own website, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and mobile devices
• Protect your videos with automatic online backup and 2GB of storage--enough for approximately 25 minutes of DVD-quality video

Amazon.com
With Adobe Premiere Elements 7 software, making incredible movies is easier than ever. Get started quickly with new, automated options that instantly turn your raw footage into polished movies. Enhance your stories with knockout visuals and sound. Share your movies on YouTube, your own website, disc, and everywhere else. New Photoshop.com membership* works with Adobe Premiere Elements 7 so you can protect your videos with automatic online backup and 2GB of storage, and access your movies and clips anywhere you are.

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.

Customer Reviews

Great for AVCHD! Not so great for MP4 (AVC H.264)
I am NOT a newbie to video editing, in fact I have been an avid user of Adobe Premier Elements for some time now...with ver. 4 being the most recent before the version 7 purchase. Let me get this out in the open, I was disgusted with Adobe PE7 at first because I was trying to edit and burn footage from my same old camcorders....footage that Adobe PE3 and 4 handled just fine. I have tried MULTIPLE projects now and have yet to be able to render or burn a DVD using the MP4 (avc H.264) footage from my Sanyo Xacti or my Samsung NV24HD. Even worse I cannot keep a project of any size open long enough to do any editing before the program gives me a "low on memory" warning and then crashes! Version 4 was crazy enough, as I was always sure to hit the "save" button many times while editing, but this version 7 is a joke for these formats. I can't even add the MP4 files to the time-line without it crashing. Now for the good part and why I give this release a 4 star. I was asked by a buddy to edit and burn some youth football footage from his newly acquired Canon HF10 with SDHC card. I was excited. Although I had no clue what an .mts file was Adonbe PE 7 not only recognized it and imported it quickly...but I proceeded to edit both video and audio (together and separately)as well as burn to a regular DVD (not BluRay). It was a great experience. The only reason I won't give this a 5 star is that Adobe still shows this PE7 program as being compatible with MP4 and I beg to differ as a user...but if you are going the direction I want to go, AVCHD and BluRay, etc...Adobe did something right in this category. I will add that while i am not a big fan of the GUI of Pinnacle Studio Plus 12 it has handled ALL of my format types without a problem. I am running Vista Basic on a Celeron 1.60Ghz processor (Dell Inspiron 530 desktop) with 4GB of ram.

UPDATE: Now that I have purchased my OWN Canon HF10 AVCHD camcorder (1080 high-def) Adobe PE7 is my go-to program for this type of footage. Again, it handles the AVCHD / .mts file format flawlessly. Check out my other reviews for some other programs I have tried like Corel VideoStudio X2 and Magix - Movie Edit pro 14. If you are going to be working with AVCHD, certainly any of the Canon HF series camcorders that put .mts on sdhc flash cards...then I believe Adobe Premier Elements 7 is the best option.

HEADS UP!! ...READ THIS FIRST!!! as Paul Harvey says, "The rest of the story!"
While this is a nice program, my son, who is currently using Sony Vegas 7 & is familiar with Adobe After Effects, (Both GREAT programs, but VERY $$) says while this is in no way comparable to those 2 programs, it is a good value for what it has to offer, BUT if you are more than an occasional user, you may want to take this into consideration, to see the TOTAL cost, as what you buy here is NOT comprehensive.
FIRST- You HAVE to register in order to use most of the editing features, & as additional kick in the pants they require you to pay an additional $50.00 to use any of the dvd themes, something they fail to mention up front. They show you what the dvd themes look like, (a "preview") but you can't use them...... unless you pay an additional "subscription" (of $50.00) that will give you an additional 20 gb of online storage, & again this is an ANNUAL FEE!
Soooo given this extra info I hope there will be no hidden surprizes & you can (or not!) puchase this knowing what to expect!

Final output very good, but not worth the instability
I was very excited to get the latest version of Premiere Elements and had been looking forward to it for some time. I wanted to do some editing of the 1920 x 1080i AVCHD video captured by my Canon HF10 camcorder. I was let down tremendously by the instability of Premiere Elements 7 on my system. In the end, I created a great looking DVD that everybody complemented, but it was very torturous due to the number of crashes I had to endure.

Crashes aside, the product has most the features for the level of editing that I like to do (more than Windows Movie Maker, but not pro-level). The biggest thing it has going for it is the number of available video formats for both input and output.

I found it to be mostly intuitive to use, but it is quite a bit less intuitive than iMovie '08 on the Mac and not as sexy either. The file and project organization was kind of difficult to use and quite lacking.

The help system is not as easy or as fast to use as a normal product help system since it simply launches a browser windows to the Adobe site, which does make it a bit slower. However, the great thing about it is that this means you are always getting the latest help content, assuming you have an internet connection at the time that you need the help.

Adobe has added a direct product connection with photoshop.com and this does add some value, but they also have used this as a way to upsell higher level services. I signed up for the basic free account which simply gives you 2GB of online storage. It doesn't include access to additional content, even user generated content. This is definitely a mark against the product since Cyberlink Power Director includes free access to their online community content where there is a lot of great free content. This would be less of an issue, except Adobe continually pushes ads for the premium service in the product. In fact, the main startup screen is little more than an ad which you have to click through each time you start up. The net result of this huge ad is that you get a really lousy startup screen that completely lacks a decent project organizer for existing projects.


OVERALL, I found it to be sub-par to the user interface (usability) of iMovie on the Mac and sub-par to the power and quickness of Cyberlink Power Director (Vista). The feature set was simply about par for this level of video editing software. Nothing truly exciting that blew me away. My final rating of it was greatly degraded by the instability of the software, but that only seems fair given that I tried quite a bit to overcome the instability to no avail. I spent several FULL days working with it and it seemed to me that the more complex my project got the more often it crashed on me. Towards the end it was crashing at least once every 15 minutes.


With regard to the crashes I experienced, I attempted many things to fix it, including uninstalling any other software related to video processing, fully reinstalling QuickTime (required by Premiere Elements, and fully uninstalling Premiere followed by a reinstall. I also went through the Adobe online support site and tried all the suggestions that I found. Nothing fixed the instability. I considered rebuilding my system or creating a boot partition of Windows XP just to see if it worked on XP, but decided it wasn't worth the effort. I am most definitely NOT a novice computer user and I have a system that more than meets the system requirements for this product (Windows Vista loaded on a Q6600 (Quad core) with 3 GB of RAM, a Nvidia 8xxx series GPU, and a 750 GB hard disk. An off the shelf product should work off the shelf.

Since SOME other reviewers do not have instability problems, I must conclude that whether or not you'll experience instability issues is going to be dependent on your exact computer and the software on it. Therefore, I would highly recommend downloading a trial version of the software from Adobe and doing some serious editing before paying for the software. In my opinion, it was probably released before it was fully baked so that it would be available for the 2008 Holiday season and could be packaged with Photoshop Elements 7. As for me, I'll probably be using different software for my video editing.