|
|
 - Adob e Premiere ElementsThe program works well for beginning users of editing, and has many useful features such as editing video, adding titles, adding musical accompaniment, adding voice-overs. It can save products on DVDs and for web-sharing on YouTube. One improvement might be the function of saving as a html file for uploading to one's own web site. Rating:  - STOP -- DO NOT BUY This ProgramAfter downloading 'trial' versions of a number of similar programs, I decided to give this a try. I've owned a number of Adobe products, like CS2 and now, CS3. I assumed that I would find the same quality and reliability. This program simply doesn't work. After 6 hours of trying to create a slides show, interlaced with some small .avi videos, I give up. Loading a file of photos is hit and miss. YOu end up with a dozen or more black squares out of 60 total photos. And it's hit and miss. You can delete those photos and then reload the same file, and it will then miss out on different photos. I have a Core2Duo CPU with 4GB of memory on WinXP and this program gets through half a session before it pops up with memory resource messages. I bought this on Amazon 3 days ago, and I'm sending in the $20 rebate and then putting this thing on eBay to get what I can out of it. Shame on Adobe. This is a really shoddy product. I have to believe that anyone with a good experience isn't really using this or has not spent 6-8 hours with it. ......Save yourself. Rating:  - Not ready for prime time.....After updating my Premiere 3.0 with Adobe's updates and having the system totally die, I decided to buy 4.0. Mistake. The install required me to do some system clean up due to its large footprint. Once installed, it took so long to even come up I went and did laundry. After it came up and I loaded a 3.0 project, which allowed me to do some more laundry, the software caused my system to do the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). I literally had only entered in some text, when the system crashed. I decided to uninstall 3.0 and reinstall it without any updates and went back in order to finish my project. I would strongly suggest waiting until they figure this one out before purchasing it. I only gave it 2 stars instead of 1 because I think for the brief time it was up that the design will be better than 3.0, but then again my experience was so brief I could be wrong about that. Rating: - Too slow to be practicalI purchased this as part of a Photoshop Elements/Premiere Elements bundle. After spending some time with the Photoshop program and being generally satisfied, I tried giving Premiere a shot. I wanted a solution to create MPEG-2 videos playable on my TiVo and I'd been doing this in Windows Movie Maker and then converting the WMV files using ffmpeg. This works, but it is not the most straight-forward solution. All I can say about Premiere is that it was simply too slow to be worthwhile. I tried to import two 1 GB clips which I wanted to trim & then splice, but after 20 minutes of disk churning, the second clip still hadn't fully imported. What's worse, something about the installation screwed up my Windows Media Player installation so that I couldn't view DVDs or MPEG-2 files in WMP. I've uninstalled this program and will not use it again. Rating:  - Great software, when it worksI'll start by saying I like Premiere Elements. I've been using it for about 3 years now. Before you buy this software, I highly recommend you download a free trial copy from [...] and see if it works on your machine. Be sure to try the main features such as capturing video and burning dvds with chapter marks. Then decide whether you want to buy the software from amazon or not. I have 3 licenses running on three fairly new and different machines (Ver 1.0 on Pentium D XP, Ver 3.0.2 on Core2Quad Vista, Ver 1.0 new Core2Duo XP). PE crashes on all three machines at various times ...particularly when burning DVD's with chapter marks. The other big thing is recorder errors when capturing video from dv-avi digital camera or from your vcr (using a dv-avi analog/digital converter). Through the school of hard knocks, I've figured out the workarounds, etc, and am able to eventually get my projects finished but it can be very frustrating dealing with the PE crashes and recorder errors. Again, speaking for the 1.0 and 3.0.2 versions that I use, the software is very powerful and you can easily do some great video productions with it. I like it so much that I put up with the aforementioned crashes. I've heard version 4 is changed significantly so my experience may not be as relevent to version 4 as the previous versions. Still, based on my experience with Adobe Premiere Elements, this is a product you'll definitely want to try before you buy. It's worth your time to give it a try.
|
