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
- Aggravating Program
- The more I use Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0, the less I like it. There are few redeeming qualities and too many flaws to make it worth the money or hassle. I am running it on XP and want to capture HD from my camcorder. Windows Movie Maker does not support capturing HD unless it is the newer version on Vista. So I got Premiere Elements to address this. This is one of the few benefits to the software I can find. Now for my complaints:
1. The software is a pig - with my desktop computer that is fairly capable and has 3GB of RAM, Premiere Elements still has trouble starting up and keeping up. It can't render the video in preview mode accurately - often falling behind so you can't get a good idea of what the final product will be like. So I have to output it as a video file in order to get a "preview", but this processing takes a while.
2. It crashes occasionally - I have seen it crash on numerous occasions and yesterday lost my changes for no apparent reason other then the program being minimized.
3. The time markers are sometimes inaccurate - when dragging the markers around to indicate where to start/end the scene it sometimes will show you something other than what it will actually render in an output file. I especially see this when attempting to use transitions.
4. Unintuitive - this is a difficult program to get the hang of. Things are layed out differently than I would expect and the UI makes it hard to find things. Sitting through tutorials help, but it makes it difficult if you are a casual user such as myself that does not use it every week.
Luckily it is functional enough that I can complete a project, but it certainly does not make it very easy. - 2008-05-27, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Adobe Premiere Elements & Elements for Dummies
- My son got started making lego mation combined with captured video to create various school projects. He started using Windows Movie Maker which was an exercise in frustration. (Constantly locking up, wouldn't import video in .mpg format, and no ability to mix audio tracks.) So, with only two weeks left in the semester I puchased Premiere Elements on the recommendation of our university guru and against the reviews of many here at Amazon. Our experience has been fantastic!! The platform was extremely stable, locked up twice in over 50 hours of editing, handled the imported video with ease, and had a built in audio mixer. Absolutely an excellent value considering I was about to purchase a $70.00+ mixing program for use with the WMM. My son is a novice and I know less, so the Premiere Elements for Dummies was an excellent source of basic information. We would have had a much harder transition had I not purchased it at the same time.
He is a sophomore in high school and for what he was doing it worked beautifully. - 2008-05-27, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- DOA - try free trial before buying!
- Tried the free 3-day trial on XP with a machine that has enough power to run it. Get NOTHING after the splash screen -- can't use it at all! Read and followed the Adobe support suggestions (ran in simplified mode etc). Love the last suggestions of theirs: use on a different computer or reformat your hard drive and install nothing but Windows and Elements. Maybe I have another program conflicting but I've tried everything. Not worth the hassle!
- 2008-05-11, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- good product at a great value
- I use this together with PS elements 6.0. It has a little more of a learning curve put produces good video output. So far I have just done the tutorial and photo slideshows exported from PS elements. Quality of the DVD slideshow noticeably better than PS elements slideshow.
- 2008-05-06, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Premiere Elements 4.0
- I heard good things about Premiere Elements 4.0 but did not realize what it could do until I tried it. It makes it easy to turn music, videos and still photos into a really professional looking production. Lots and lots of features. The only reason that I gave it a 4 rather then a 5 is that this product requires a "today" type computer with some horsepower. I ran this on a P4 with 768meg and it runs slow (CPU bound). It runs great on a Dual Core with 2 gig of memory.
- 2008-05-03, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
