mov, which completely kills the ability to play back your HD files in XboX360/PS3). I found the WMV export dialog to be the most complete of all, and the h.264 dialog to be the second best (it was only missing the ability to save as. Under PC viewing you can choose to export in Flash, mpeg/mpeg2, DV AVI, WMV, and Quicktime. DVD/Blu-Ray, Youtube and other online sites, PC viewing, mobile phones and PMPs and print back to camera’s tape. Regarding exporting options, you can choose from a number of presets, e.g. Not as easy to pick up as iMovie, but possibly easier than Vegas. Overall, it only takes a few hours to learn how to use PE4, which is a good track record for a video editor. Regarding editing, the application allows you to de-interlace, interpret footage as 24p (although no 24p timelines are supported), audio mixing, have many tracks, easy slow-motion/fast-motion and more. Unfortunately, adding 1 or 2 of these plugins pushed RAM utilization to 1.6 GBs, which is a bit high compared to the competition. Filter examples include the lighting effects, posterize, levels and contrast (not user controllable), distortion, lens flare, ripples, page curl, chroma keying, sketching, motion blur, stylization, transformation and my favorite, video stabilization. In this new version PE4 comes with a lot of Newblue’s filters, a company known for their special effects filters. And using the sceneline and the included movie themes, you can put a movie together in seconds, like you can with the new iMovie ’08. The new PE4 feels more like a client to your media rather than a stand-alone application. On the left side you will find the preview window, below it the timeline/sceneline, and on the right side there is the “Edit” tab which lets you control your Media, themes, effects, transitions and titling, the “Create menus” tab that lets you put together and export in DVD or Blu-Ray, and the “Share” tab which offers a number of ways to export your edited footage. PE4 has a brand new interface, featuring a dark theme. Overall interface speed is good though and preview speed of HDV is real time on my P4 3Ghz with 3 GB RAM. It requires over 1 GB of RAM when a web browser and email client are also open at the same time and well over 1 GB of RAM when encoding. Premiere Elements 4 (PE4) is a heavy application, heavier than Vegas. The application captured from our Canon HV20 without any problems. Using a number of presets for DV/HDV or direct camera capture/stopmotion, you can start a new project in it. Installing Premiere takes a while and requires a reboot.Īfter a while the application is up and ready to be used. So I tested it for two weeks to assess how good it is. It is a serious editor that has a long tradition, compared to the more visual and cheapo editors like Ulead’s. I always felt that Premiere Elements is the second best video editor in the consumer market, second only to Sony Vegas Platinum. The bundle sported a new user interface but also new features. A few weeks ago Adobe released the Premiere Elements 4 and Photoshop Elements 6.0 applications.
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