Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #950 in Software
• Brand: Adobe Systems Inc.
• Released on: 2007-10-02
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 2.65 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 & Adobe Premiere Elements 4 software combines two powerful yet easy-to-use products to deliver the most complete photo- and video-editing solution at a great value. Get all the functionality of the individual products plus the ability to easily access and use photos and video clips in either product to create cinematic slide shows, dramatic freeze-frame effects, and more. Then show off your finished projects on personalised DVDs and high-definition Blu-ray Discs or on the web.

Top reasons to buy Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 & Adobe Premiere Elements 4

• Get everything in the individual products and moreâ€"Enjoy all the great functionality of Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and Adobe Premiere Elements 4 as well as additional functionality that lets you easily create with photos and videosâ€"all for a great value.
• Save time with centralized access to your photos and video clipsâ€"Access all of your photos and video clips from one convenient place, no matter which application you’re using.
• Put photo slide shows in motionâ€"Create a traditional photo slide show, and then add video-style effects and transitions and add motion to your text. Preview the slide show in full screen and then burn it to disc or upload it to the web to share with family and friends.
• Do more with individual video framesâ€"Capture a single video frame; add text, graphics, and other enhancements; and then put the frame back in your movie for a fun or dramatic freeze-frame effect. Or grab a video frame and create a personalized disc cover for your movie.
• Include treasured memories in your moviesAdd visual depth and variety to your movies by including digital stills and scanned film photos.

Customer Reviews

Superb product apart from the lack of AVCHD support
This product trumps the competitors in my view, in having the ability not only to organise both still pictures and video footage in one system, but also to use either type of media easily in whatever you are making. It is easy to make anything from a DVD to a website, or output to numerous devices such as mobile phones or PDAs.

Most importantly for irreplaceable stills and clips it has excellent backup (with verification) facilities, including backing up to anything from a hard drive to a blue ray disc and everything in between.

The photo editing tools and video editing tools are for the most part the same as the top of the range professional versions from Adobe, however much more simple to use. The Premiere Elements part (video editing) has a particularly simple interface compared with most products, despite having very wide-ranging capabilities. I would have given 5 stars except..

The one big howler is the inability to edit video from the latest Sony and Panasonic high definition camcorders which record to memory chips (AVCHD format) and which I believe will ultimately dominate the upper end of the "prosumer" market because of their wonderful picture quality, portability and lack of moving parts (lens excluded).

Therefore if Adobe introduce this capability, or if you are confident you'll never use the AVCHD format then this is, I believe, the best product for enthusiastic amateurs.

Good choice for advanced home user
While good to get you going, the photo and video packages often bundled with PCs etc really don't give you anything advanced and easy to use (I mean the budget editions that usually cost about £25 to buy separately).

So after deciding that I no way need the mega-functionality of professional packages (even if I could afford splashing out several hundred pounds on one!) I looked into reviews from a number of different sources on a couple of mid-range packages but the only way to really know is to try one out first before buying.

Adobe have a try-before-buy scheme for stuff like this on their website (the Pro versions and the Elements versions of PhotoShop and Premier are available) although the file downloads are naturally very big. It was after trying these that made me buy the Elements bundle.

I spent pretty much a whole weekend with the trial version (which is fully featured with a 30day timeout) editing holiday photos and video clips trying out various features - it's really quite intuitive to use and (so far) I haven't had any of the crashes that others have experienced so for me it gets a thumbs up.

Surprisingly, ordering from Amazon was a couple of pounds cheaper than buying the unlock codes direct from Adobe and also gets you the installation DVD and manuals. Note though that you have to uninstall the downloaded time-limited version and then reinstall from the disk as the licence codes with the disk won't unlock the downloaded time-limited version.

Good but not as a bundle
Elements 6 is great, it is friendly stable and productive. I have to say that it doesnt seem to offer that much more than 5 though.

However, as a bundle this is really poor. Premiere 4 is VERY unstable and slooooow even on high spec machines. Avoid the bundle and but Elements on its own or even gor for Elements 5 which might be cheaper but isnt Vista compatible.