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Customer Reviews of Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 Video Editing [DVD]

The Perfect Software for the Amateur to Intermediate Level Filmmaker
When I was a child, my parents had an 8mm movie camera which they brought with them on our family vacations and pulled out of the closet at prom time. It did not record sound or have any special effects. All you got was a silent movie and to watch it you had to drag out that clumsy projector and movie screen. <
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>Well, today's family lives in a different world and DVD video is one of the best by-products of this high-tech age. Adobe Premiere Elements 2 is the perfect software package for the amateur to intermediate level filmmaker who wants to save cherished moments of family and friends and add to their DVD's that professional presentation. Premiere Elements is a simple-to-use software with a user-friendly workspace and powerful video editing features. The context sensitive How To panel, tutorials and Product Help file quickly get you up and running the automated, drag and drop features. <
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>Your first step is to import your video clip into Premiere Elements and the Media Downloader makes this easy. You can import files from most digital video devices and preview each clip in the Monitor panel. Of course, to get that professional look, you will want to trim and combine several video clips together to make your movie. This is done quite easily by dragging your mouse. The software will automatically remove the unwanted part and reconnect the remaining. Once you get the movie edited to your liking, it is time to add some of the many pre-installed filters, transitions and special effects. Premiere Elements comes packed with a great number of customizable, Hollywood-style special effects that you can add to your clips. If you are familiar with any of the Adobe software, you will recognize some of these more popular special effects. <
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>A transition is a quick and easy way to smoothly tie together the scenes that make up your movie. You will find many professional quality video transitions to choose from including Gradient Wipe, Image Mask, 3D Motion, Page Peel, Slide and Wipe. Each transition has a thumbnail animation that shows how the effect will look and to apply any of them, you just drag it from the Effects and Transitions panel to the spot on the Timeline where you want the transition to occur. You also have many artistic effects to choose from including Alpha Glow, Bevel Edge, Drop Shadow, Edge Feather, Lens and Flare Distortion. All of these transitions and effects can be used as is or customized in the Properties panel and saved for future use. Unlike those family movies from my childhood, Premiere Elements has great Dolby® Digital audio support. Using the Media panel, you can easily create an audio track and keyframes for coordinating the music along the Timeline. <
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>When I use my DVD recorder to burn the DVD after I tape my favorite TV shows, all I get is a generic looking menu with a bunch of ugly squares representing the scenes. With Premiere Elements, you can do a much better job using the many predesigned templates from the DVD Templates panel. You can choose from theme-related templates such as Entertainment, Seasons, Sports, Travel and Party Celebrations. Once you choose a template to match the theme of your movie, you can easily change the text and graphics and add style with the many text styles in the Titler Styles panel. If you can use a word processing program like Microsoft Word, you will have no problem customizing your menu from the templates. <
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>Now that you have your masterpiece completed, you will want to preview your movie in the Preview DVD panel or on your television. And because nothing has been finalized yet, you can go back to make refinements. Finally, you are ready to burn your DVD. Premiere Elements automatically chooses the best quality settings to match your media and the Project Archiver stores all the project media files in one place for you. You can burn your DVD to a single-layer or dual-layer disc in the PAL (Europe and Asia) or NTSC (America and Japan) formats. <
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>Adobe Premiere Elements 2 can be purchased alone or bundled with Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.

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Solid But Lacks Batch Capture
Nice interface. As others have said, it is more of a professional interface as opposed to a 'hold your hand' product like other video editing suites. The most important thing is that unlike most other competing software, this one has fewer bugs and doesn't crash. It lacks one important feature though - Batch Capture. I like to scan through my movies and jot down start/stop times for the scenes I want to capture which usually amounts to 30-50% of the actual length of the entire DV tape (why capture it all and clog up the hard drive and tie up the computer). I like Ulead's Videostudio for doing this, I can just setup up capture points and leave and come back with all my scenes captured. You need to buy the super expensive Pro version of Premiere to do this. Not worth the extra money. Also Premiere Elements will only caputure to AVI files where competing products will capture direct to MPEG-2 greatly reducing the amount of hard disk space needed and the need to transcode the video when you burn a DVD (unless you added effects/titles to the video). I'd look at Roxio's latest product, Cyberlink PowerDirector (great for the novice), or ULEAD VideStudio (if you can put up with a few bugs) as alternatives to Premiere Elements if you need Batch Capture and/or the ability to capture and encode into MPEG-2 in one step. <
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Excellent & Stable!
As a former Stuidio user, I moved to Premiere Elements for stability and that's exactly what I got! It could use some additional transition effects but other than that - RUN don't WALK to buy this program!