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| Adobe Premiere Elements 7 | 
 enlarge | From: Adobe
Category: Software
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $89.49
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 142
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Elements
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 1.5
MPN: 65027062
Model: 65026874
UPC: 883919167817
EAN: 0883919168265
ASIN: B001DMBX2I
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Does The Job December 23, 2008
I loaded this program recently, and found that it is up to the tasks that a 'regular user' - such as myself - will require. The install is easy, and storyboarding, and adding effects are simple.
I have to ask myself though, what does this do that MS Movie Maker doesn't already do? The answer is that you must register and pay a fee $$ to use some of the slicker features.
 Powerful but painful to use, I can't recommend it! December 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I mainly started using PE 3.0 awhile back to upload videos to YouTube and to get my HD movies from my camcorder onto DVD (with a few titles, etc..). I never found 3.0 that easy to use but I got the job done.
I upgraded to PE 7 about a month ago and I have been very disappointed. At first I figured I just needed time to get adjusted to the program, but here I am a month later and today started shopping for another alternative. I plan to uninstall PE 7. Which is hard for me to say. But the program is just too painful for me to use, it is not very intuitive and if you want to deviate from doing things how THEY want you to do it....well good luck.
I also get the lockups that others have complained about. Today was the last straw when trying to make a 3 min .flv movie from HD content. The program kept locking up telling me I didn't have enough memory resources. I have a smokin fast machine with 4 GB of memory...if that can't cut it then I doubt most peoples computers will. Very disappointing.
I love Adobe products normally but this one was a total failure. I suggest you look elsewhere at the many other options for the same money.
 Can't read video, can't write video but middle is a little better December 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have a fairly new video camera but this product was unable to import the video directly. I had to use the small app that came with the camera to import the data to disk and then "import" that into Premier Elements. The failure message is pretty bizarre and comes attached to a nearly phantom window; this is clearly a gaping whole in the program. Adobe support says that it just might not be able to work with that camera.
After struggling with the clunky interface I finally put together a video that I wanted to burn to DL DVD. However, as soon as I get to that menu the program crashes (i.e., a dialog pops up to send an error report to Microsoft). Adobe support just says to be sure that everything that can be updated (there are no updates to PE 7) is updated—they were.
When I looked into getting a consumer-level video editing program about 6 months ago Premier Elements 4 (they jumped a couple numbers here to line it up with (Photo) Elements) the consensus was what PE 4 was the best of a bad lot. My guess is that with this release, Premiere Elements 7 is no longer even the best of the bad lot. With a product with so many versions, it really ought to work much better than this. I would dub it the Vista of video editors, but even Vista is not this dysfunctional. I expected more from Adobe.
 What can I saw - Adobe make good products December 18, 2008
I thought I had reviewed this but apparently not. I use Adobe products on a daily basis. While this product is the pared down version of the Adobe Premiere product it provides excellent tools to make home movies. Some of the tools are a bit cumbersome and require some trial and error to get things correct but once you get the hang of it things get better pretty fast. Really, the key to any of these products is in the way the video is taken. When you take long segments they are a little harder to blend and manipulate. I have compared this application to the Corel product and found Corel to be easier to use and provides a bit more flexibility. Sony Vegas has more tools but is equally difficult to work with. I also own Pinnacle Studio which is easier than any of these products to use but has some limitations that the others don't. All that being said I still like the product and will use it for those video tasks that it works best on. I guess what I am trying to say is the right tool for all tasks may not exist in one package.
A lot to learn, but I'm taking it one step at a time December 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've never used any video editing software before Adobe Premiere Elements 7, so it's all new to me. It can do lots of things, but so can Microsoft Word, and lots of people are comfortable using that program. Of course, most people don't use many of the features in Word. I many not end up using many of the features in Premiere because at this point I have pretty simple needs. I'm trying to learn it one feature at a time, instead of trying to produce a Hollywood block buster the first time I open the box. Is it easy? Yes and no, but I can't tell if the "no" part is due to the program or my inexperience.
If you're new to video editing, Premiere is okay, but also check out reviews for other products.
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