Product Description

Create and share great-looking movies in minutes with Adobe Premiere Elements 4. Get started quickly with all your video clips and photos at your fingertips and easy options for turning them into polished movies. Show your style with amazing audio and video effects. And easily share on YouTube, Blu-ray Disc, and virtually anywhere else.Main Features:Start quickly with all your media at your fingertips: Find what you need faster using the same Organizer that's included with Adobe Photoshop Elements softwa...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1497 in Software
• Brand: Adobe Systems Inc.
• Released on: 2007-10-10
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.46 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Create and share great-looking movies in minutes with Adobe Premiere Elements 4 - the newest version of the best-selling consumer video-editing software. Get started quickly with all your video clips and photos at your fingertips and a choice of easy options for transforming them into polished movies. Show your personal style with amazing visual effects, rich audio, and interactive menus. Then broadcast far and wide by uploading your movies directly to YouTube or your personal sharing site; share with family and friends on DVD, mobile phones, and portable media devices; and even enjoy movies in high definition, including on Blu-ray Disc.

Top reasons to buy Adobe® Premiere® Elements 4

• Start quickly with all your media at your fingertipsâ€" Find what you need faster using the same Organiser that’s included with Adobe Photoshop Elements software. Visually tag video clips and photos to categorize by people, places, or events. Then you can view, search, and sort your assets in a variety of waysâ€"including by file name, tag, date, and timeâ€"and quickly start making your movie
• Share in many ways from one convenient placeâ€" See all of your sharing options in one convenient location, the new Sharing Centre. Follow easy steps for creating your movie once and then sharing it in multiple ways, including on disc, the web, and mobile devices.
• Share your stories on the webâ€" Broadcast far and wide by uploading your movies directly to YouTube or your personal sharing page. Adobe Premiere Elements 4 takes care of optimising and formatting for the specific destination so your movies always look great
• Jump-start your editing with ‘Movie Themes’â€" Turn a sequence of scenes into a polished movie in just a few clicks! Choose from event-based themes like Wedding and Birthday or style-based themes such as Silent Film and Music Video. Adobe Premiere Elements automatically applies coordinated transitions, music, and professionally designed layouts for titles, credits, and disc menus. Apply themes to entire projects or just the portions you specify
• Make movies with drag-and-drop easeâ€" Create your story faster in the Sceneline, an easier alternative to the more traditional video-editing Timeline, where you can make a movie by simply dragging and dropping thumbnails of your clips, transitions, and effects. Practical new options, like the ability to copy and paste thumbnails, make the Sceneline even easier to use
• Edit and preview in one convenient placeâ€" Edit and view your movie in one convenient placeâ€" the Monitor windowâ€" 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
• Share movies in HD for the highest qualityâ€" Take advantage of the latest technology and enjoy your movies in high definition, including on Blu-ray Disc
• Mix and refine your audio for greater impactâ€" Use background music and sound effects to underscore emotions, add emphasis, or create a mood. The new Audio Mixer works just like a mixing board in a recording studio, letting you adjust relative volumes with sliders so, for example, dialogue can be heard clearly over music
• Edit to the beat of a favourite songâ€" Easily create entertaining slideshows and movies that move to the music. Adobe Premiere Elements automatically detects the tempo of your musical soundtrack and syncs the beginning and end of each scene with the beats
• Rescue shaky footageâ€" Don’t let a shaky camera ruin otherwise great footage. Restore it with the new Image Stabiliser filter
• Customise your discs with interactive menusâ€"Easily personalise your menus! Start with professionally designed menu templates, and then type in text and drag and drop to add your own video clips, images, and audio

Customer Reviews

£70 for a bug ridden unsupported piece of junk
This was delivered today. I loaded it to my pc, everything was ok until I tried to burn my small test project to DVD - it crashed. I tried to export the project to PC, it crashed again. I installed it on my laptop - it crashed. I tried to get onto their support site and got stuck in an endless loop. I surfed the net and found a review that said that adobe had rushed this release even though it still has loads of bugs already been highlighted by beta testers. £70 down the drain! It got one star cos you can't submit a review without a rating.

Bug ridden.
I tried this programme out on brand new Vista Intel Duo Core machine with much more power than Adobe says this programme requires.
The programme is superb....
at least it would be if it wasn't bug ridden.
It stalls literally every 5 mins, which involves having to hang around for ages waiting for it to come back to life.
And then it crashes literally every 10 minutes if you're lucky and sometimes every 2 minutes.
This product is naff - and since buying it reviews I've read online also mention it's instability. (Next time I'll read the review beforehand) Adobe shouldn't have released it without debugging it properly. Such a shame as it has fantastic features if only it worked.
Buyer beware. This could be the most frustrating programme you'll ever purchase. It has been for me

Really awful software
As with most of the other reviewers here, once installed the software suffers from multiple crashes, very long start up and loading times and if you try to add text to any part of your production, once you click enter you watch the screen through squinted eyes hoping it won't crash. I cannot comment on SDV as I only use HDV from my Sony HDV camcorder (which I do not import directly, but to my hard drive via HDVSplit a free software and then into Elements) but when rendering, it's useful to have a book handy as you'll need to do something whilst the computer chugs away as I have found that for every second shown left remaining whilst rendering, in reality every second is woth five or more. I have tried to burn four DVD's, one after the other to save time, but the system crashed after the first burn stating 'memory allocation error' and I have 4GB of the stuff. I have the latest Intel Quad processor 9450, Gigabyte X48 chipset motherboard, 4GB RAM, a Radeon HD3650 graphics card with 512 onboard RAM and two 400GB hard drives. And it still crashes. If, as per one of the other reviewers here, you have to have the right motherboard/processor/graphics card combination, then your purchase and the successful use thereof will be completely hit or miss (even if you comply with the minimum requirements on the box. Maybe they should state their favourite combination instead of just giving a minimum requirement). When changing a single letter in a rolling title at the end of my compilation due to a mistake on my part (bad proof read), it took one and a half hours to render, whereupon I found another two mistakes after the rendering, again independently, and so to change them took another three hours, so I spent the whole evening just editing three single letter mistakes. It's a soul destroying process.

For a company like Adobe (for which I used Premiere Elements 2 with absolutely no problem and currently use CS3 Collection) it is really disgusting and for which the should be utterly ashamed. Do not (as mentioned by others) in any way, shape or form waste your money on this product until at least a patch or 5 comes out and only then after it has been fully tested and there are positive reviews. I would like to give zero stars, but you can't.

I am an extremely unhappy punter.