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 Not worth the money or frustration, 2008-05-31
I have thousands of photos that I organize and edit with Photoshop Elements. I try to take the next step and create slideshows to music and put them on DVD for sports teams, family events, etc. I enjoy doing most of the slideshow work in Photoshop Elements. When I get to Premiere to get into final form and burn to DVD, my frustration level goes through the roof. Yesterday, I spent 6 hours trying to get one 10 minute slideshow on DVD. Here are the issues:
> Crashes regularly and must shut it done
> Slow -- unable to break apart slides to add effects (i.e. transitions, titles, menus)
> Complex -- not user friendly for the non-professional user. I spent hours trying to figure out what should be simple edits (i.e. adjusting audio tracks, changing timing of slides)
I wish Photoshop would just add more functionality to making a slideshow and burning to a DVD. I have un-installed Premiere after yesterday.
Good Interface but Slow and Crashes, 2008-05-30
Well, I just finished my first project with Adobe Premiere Elements 4. Overall, I'd say I'm very dissatisfied with the product. It has a good feature set for the money, a very attractive and easy to use interface, and has a useful set of templates for titles and menus. So what's not to like? In short, it's very slow and crashes a lot, often taking saved work down with the ship.
I was doing a project that should have taken a couple hours and it ended up taking all night (and all morning). I frequently had to redo work when the program crashed (4 times in 4 hours). Also, it seems that every time I switch to another program (even a text messaging program) Premiere Elements 4 freezes up for a minute or two. I assume it's re-scanning resources to see if anything changed. That "feature" is such a productivity killer I can't even give the product two stars. My machine has a dual core 3 gHZ processor and 4 GB of RAM, and hardware encoding/decoding, so it's not the machine's fault.
The interface is very prety and super intuitive, but seriously, what good is it if you stare at hourglasses and the program crashes? And a penalty for multitasking between programs? What is this? Windows 3.1? Honestly, Windows Movie Maker is more reliable and productive.
 Aggravating Program, 2008-05-27
The more I use Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0, the less I like it. There are few redeeming qualities and too many flaws to make it worth the money or hassle. I am running it on XP and want to capture HD from my camcorder. Windows Movie Maker does not support capturing HD unless it is the newer version on Vista. So I got Premiere Elements to address this. This is one of the few benefits to the software I can find. Now for my complaints:
1. The software is a pig - with my desktop computer that is fairly capable and has 3GB of RAM, Premiere Elements still has trouble starting up and keeping up. It can't render the video in preview mode accurately - often falling behind so you can't get a good idea of what the final product will be like. So I have to output it as a video file in order to get a "preview", but this processing takes a while.
2. It crashes occasionally - I have seen it crash on numerous occasions and yesterday lost my changes for no apparent reason other then the program being minimized.
3. The time markers are sometimes inaccurate - when dragging the markers around to indicate where to start/end the scene it sometimes will show you something other than what it will actually render in an output file. I especially see this when attempting to use transitions.
4. Unintuitive - this is a difficult program to get the hang of. Things are layed out differently than I would expect and the UI makes it hard to find things. Sitting through tutorials help, but it makes it difficult if you are a casual user such as myself that does not use it every week.
Luckily it is functional enough that I can complete a project, but it certainly does not make it very easy.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Adobe Premiere Elements & Elements for Dummies, 2008-05-27
My son got started making lego mation combined with captured video to create various school projects. He started using Windows Movie Maker which was an exercise in frustration. (Constantly locking up, wouldn't import video in .mpg format, and no ability to mix audio tracks.) So, with only two weeks left in the semester I puchased Premiere Elements on the recommendation of our university guru and against the reviews of many here at Amazon. Our experience has been fantastic!! The platform was extremely stable, locked up twice in over 50 hours of editing, handled the imported video with ease, and had a built in audio mixer. Absolutely an excellent value considering I was about to purchase a $70.00+ mixing program for use with the WMM. My son is a novice and I know less, so the Premiere Elements for Dummies was an excellent source of basic information. We would have had a much harder transition had I not purchased it at the same time.
He is a sophomore in high school and for what he was doing it worked beautifully.
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DOA - try free trial before buying!, 2008-05-11
Tried the free 3-day trial on XP with a machine that has enough power to run it. Get NOTHING after the splash screen -- can't use it at all! Read and followed the Adobe support suggestions (ran in simplified mode etc). Love the last suggestions of theirs: use on a different computer or reformat your hard drive and install nothing but Windows and Elements. Maybe I have another program conflicting but I've tried everything. Not worth the hassle!
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