By: Dustin Sklavos
Kicking off a series of video editing software reviews here at Notebook Review, today we're taking a look at Adobe's entrant, Premiere Elements 7. Branded essentially as a consumer grade version of their much more powerful, much more robust professional-grade video editing suite Premiere Pro CS4, Premiere Elements 7 exists chiefly to let the armchair videographers and sometime amateur filmmakers put together quality video projects.
In the interests of full disclosure, I recently received a degree in Visual Arts and have years of experience with Adobe's Premiere and Apple's Final Cut Pro. I'm used to exactly this kind of robust software, so taking a step down the ladder and looking at the consumer side of things is an interesting detour and if nothing else gives me information that I can eventually pass on to other people -- people like With all that said, I'm looking to see how easy this software makes editing video for John Q. Public, but also if it provides a good stepping stone for the filmmakers of tomorrow to cut their teeth on more professional software. This isn't iMovie-level stuff, it's a notch up. I'm also going to look at whether or not this software really adds anything that you couldn't get for free from Microsoft in the form of their Windows Live Movie Maker (currently in beta).
Personal and professional introductions out of the way, with Adobe's pedigree in higher-end software one should expect Premiere Elements 7 to be a cut above the rest. At $99.99 for a shiny new copy direct from Adobe's site -- the price definitely on the higher end of this market -- does Premiere Elements 7 have what it takes?
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Dustin Sklavos Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer
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Sad to see the DVD editing was so weak.
Im surprised they would take video capture out of your hands like that too...
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The link to the actual review is missing today - only your introduction is available ...
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Where is the actual review?? I only see the intro.... weak
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Very Basic Software, does not let you import at custom resolutions, only use the basic presets
Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Review Discussion
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