Adobe Premiere Elements 4 [OLD VERSION]
![Adobe Premiere Elements 4 [OLD VERSION]](/Images/B000UK6OUK/medium.jpg) | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Create and share great-looking movies in minutes with Adobe Premiere Elements 4 software. Show your style with amazing audio and video effects and share your movies on YouTube, your own website, disc, and virtually anywhere else. Visually tag video clips and photos to categorize by people, places, or events. Turn a sequence of scenes into a polished movie in just a few clicks. Adobe Premiere Elements automatically applies coordinated transitions, music,… Product details and pricing info |
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80 Customer Reviews Posted
- Premieres elements 4
- June 4, 2008
I just purchased Premiere Elements 4 a few weeks ago.
I have found it to be an excellent video editing software.
It's very easy to operate, and is capable of many types of editing work.
I would recommend it to anyone who wants to create very good quality videos.
If there is dificulty importing files from a video camera, the Adobe program is OK, it just means the camera uses a different codec.
The Adobe tech supprt can assist in acquiring the needed codec.
The Premiere elements 4 can be used for 30 days and returned if it isn't compatible with your video equipment. - 2008-06-05, 3 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Will not work with AVCHD file format.
- This is probably a real nice program like all other Adobe programs, but you can not work with the new High Definition AVCHD format that the new flash memory video cameras produce. Unfortunately I had to return this software to Amazon, and received full credit. I gave this one star because I couldn't use it.
- 2008-06-02, 7 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Audio cuts out, video timeline entry useless, plugins don't work
- I encountered a number of problems with this program:
* Audio cuts out unexpectedly, including when saving videos, making the videos useless.
* Lets you enter videos in the timeline, but then to cut and splice them you need to go back to the sceneline, which doesn't show any of the videos you entered in the timeline. Since I used the timeline to painstakingly synchronize audio and video tracks, I now have to undo ALL of that work and re-enter them in the sceneline. This is plain STUPID.
* VST plugins do not work. They don't tell you explicitly which directory to put them in, the documentation points to a mythical directory. I eventually found the right directory and added my VST audio plugins. I know it was looking there, because it gave errors for a few plugins that required a security key that wasn't enabled for this boot partition. I deleted those, the program loaded (FYI, I had to hold a key while the program loaded to even get this far - not documented in the manual, eventually found it on a web forum), but it still doesn't show the VST plugins in the program audio effects folder. I ended up editing my audio files in Wavelab.
I'm giving up on this program. It simply doesn't work as advertised. - 2008-06-01, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Not worth the money or frustration
- I have thousands of photos that I organize and edit with Photoshop Elements. I try to take the next step and create slideshows to music and put them on DVD for sports teams, family events, etc. I enjoy doing most of the slideshow work in Photoshop Elements. When I get to Premiere to get into final form and burn to DVD, my frustration level goes through the roof. Yesterday, I spent 6 hours trying to get one 10 minute slideshow on DVD. Here are the issues:
> Crashes regularly and must shut it done
> Slow -- unable to break apart slides to add effects (i.e. transitions, titles, menus)
> Complex -- not user friendly for the non-professional user. I spent hours trying to figure out what should be simple edits (i.e. adjusting audio tracks, changing timing of slides)
I wish Photoshop would just add more functionality to making a slideshow and burning to a DVD. I have un-installed Premiere after yesterday. - 2008-05-31, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Good Interface but Slow and Crashes
- Well, I just finished my first project with Adobe Premiere Elements 4. Overall, I'd say I'm very dissatisfied with the product. It has a good feature set for the money, a very attractive and easy to use interface, and has a useful set of templates for titles and menus. So what's not to like? In short, it's very slow and crashes a lot, often taking saved work down with the ship.
I was doing a project that should have taken a couple hours and it ended up taking all night (and all morning). I frequently had to redo work when the program crashed (4 times in 4 hours). Also, it seems that every time I switch to another program (even a text messaging program) Premiere Elements 4 freezes up for a minute or two. I assume it's re-scanning resources to see if anything changed. That "feature" is such a productivity killer I can't even give the product two stars. My machine has a dual core 3 gHZ processor and 4 GB of RAM, and hardware encoding/decoding, so it's not the machine's fault.
The interface is very prety and super intuitive, but seriously, what good is it if you stare at hourglasses and the program crashes? And a penalty for multitasking between programs? What is this? Windows 3.1? Honestly, Windows Movie Maker is more reliable and productive. - 2008-05-30, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
