Adobe Premiere Elements 7

List Price: $99.99 Discount Price: $85.98

Features:

• Stay connected with your favorite people and memories with new Photoshop.com membership
• Get started quickly with automated moviemaking options
• Enhance your stories with knockout visuals and sound
• Share on YouTube, your own website, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and mobile devices
• Protect your videos with automatic online backup and 2GB of storage--enough for approximately 25 minutes of DVD-quality video

Customer Reviews:

A Complete Lack of Innovation [Posted on 2008-10-24]
With this latest release of Premiere Elements, Adobe jumps the version number of its extremely popular video editing software from 4 to 7. This was done to keep Premiere Elements at the same release number as Photoshop Elements - the image editing program that PE7 is often bundled with. So, does this version of the software contain enough new features to justify the big jump in version number? The answer is No.

The primary reason for this release was Adobe launching its new Photoshop website, which is Adobe's attempt to compete with social networking and video/image sharing sites like MySpace, YouTube, and Photobucket. Premiere Elements 7 allows you to directly upload/backup your videos on that site.. or, at least, you're supposed to be able to. I couldn't even get my photos to display properly on that site via Photoshop Elements (the system constantly glitched and told me the images were damaged/corrupted and could not be displayed), and I didn't feel like taking the time to test the feature with a two gig video file after the early failures. Granted, fixes for these sorts of errors will probably be added quickly (they may already have been added by the time you read this review), but it just goes to show that PE7 was released with significant problems.

Besides features based on the new Photoshop website, there's not much new in Premiere Elements 7. There are some new/improved wizards to help you make slide shows and movies, but competing video editing programs have had these features for a while. As well, some of the more common plugins have made their way into the main PE program (SmartSound, etc...), but users of previous PE versions already had access to these. Finally, PE7 is listed as having AVCHD support, but - since I don't currently use AVCHD - I haven't personally tested this aspect of the software.

If Premiere Elements 7 had some innovative new features or significantly streamlined its program, I could recommend it - but neither of these aspects are in the new version. What we've got is a piece of software that is invasive (aspects of PE7 constantly run on your system when you boot up, and altering your config files or startup to shut them down will require you to re-install PE), requires significant system resources to run properly, and just hasn't improved much since the previous version. What's worse, Adobe did not release a patch for the bugs in the previous version of PE (at least not at the time of this writing, over one year since release), so don't expect Adobe to support this version any better.

Great for AVCHD! Not so great for MP4 (AVC H.264) [Posted on 2008-11-11]
I am NOT a newbie to video editing, in fact I have been an avid user of Adobe Premier Elements for some time now...with ver. 4 being the most recent before the version 7 purchase. Let me get this out in the open, I was disgusted with Adobe PE7 at first because I was trying to edit and burn footage from my same old camcorders....footage that Adobe PE3 and 4 handled just fine. I have tried MULTIPLE projects now and have yet to be able to render or burn a DVD using the MP4 (avc H.264) footage from my Sanyo Xacti or my Samsung NV24HD. Even worse I cannot keep a project of any size open long enough to do any editing before the program gives me a "low on memory" warning and then crashes! Version 4 was crazy enough, as I was always sure to hit the "save" button many times while editing, but this version 7 is a joke for these formats. I can't even add the MP4 files to the time-line without it crashing. Now for the good part and why I give this release a 4 star. I was asked by a buddy to edit and burn some youth football footage from his newly acquired Canon HF10 with SDHC card. I was excited. Although I had no clue what an .mts file was Adonbe PE 7 not only recognized it and imported it quickly...but I proceeded to edit both video and audio (together and separately)as well as burn to a regular DVD (not BluRay). It was a great experience. The only reason I won't give this a 5 star is that Adobe still shows this PE7 program as being compatible with MP4 and I beg to differ as a user...but if you are going the direction I want to go, AVCHD and BluRay, etc...Adobe did something right in this category. I will add that while i am not a big fan of the GUI of Pinnacle Studio Plus 12 it has handled ALL of my format types without a problem. I am running Vista Basic on a Celeron 1.60Ghz processor (Dell Inspiron 530 desktop) with 4GB of ram.

Good features for someone new to editing, horrible stability issues  [Posted on 2008-11-11]
This is really my first real experience with any type of video editing software. I picked up PE7 up to finally spend some time editing and backing up the hours of tape I had accumulated over the years. Because this is my first experience with software of this type I can't really offer comparisons to other options that are out there but I will give my impressions of PE7 from a beginner's perspective.

For a consumer level video editing application I found the utilities that are available in PE7 to be fairly extensive. For someone who is new to these types of applications PE7 can offer as many features and options as you are willing to play with. I installed the software and without any knowledge of how it worked explored and played around with the features, by the second day I was starting my first project. There are basic video effects/animations that you can play with, title animations and themes that can be applied to videos etc. Working with imported video clips is easy and quick. I have a 3 year old MiniDV camcorder and videos import without issues, I believe these clips are imported as AVI-DV files. I don't have an HD camera so I can't attest to the HD video editing but it is nice to have the option with this software in the future should I decide to upgrade.

Unfortunately the good features of the software can be overshadowed by some of the negatives. Mainly the crashing. It is unacceptable for Adobe to release a product that has clearly not been thoroughly tested as it crashes far to frequently. Reviews of PE4 mention instability issues, I figured 7 would address these, that was not the case. Working in PE7 you will soon get used to saving very frequently as crashes seem to pop up even when not doing anything particularly taxing to your system. Another issue I am not thrilled with is the difficulty I am having importing other videos that have been encoded using divx or xvid formats. I believe this can be solved by hunting down the correct video and audio codecs. Some have complained about the Photoshop online accounts, I do not have any experience with this as I don't intend to share any of my projects this way. I can say it is not worth signing up for a basic account if you are hoping to use tutorials, a Google search will return more useful information.

Overall I'm happy with PE7. I needed something to use to edit my video and this fit the bill. When it isn't crashing it works well for me, crashing is just way to frequent.

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