Features
ORGANIZE
Easily view and protect your video clips and photos in a powerful and convenient media management hub.
- Bring all your footage and photos together
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Use footage from virtually anywhere
Bring in video from the latest camcorders, digital cameras, webcams, mobile phones, VHS tapes, DVDs, analog and digital TV tuners, and set-top DVD recorders.
Edit HD video
Import and edit video from high-definition AVCHD camcorders.
Import photos, too
Bring in all your photos so you can combine them with video footage to create visually rich movies.
- Organize with ease and find what you need fast
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See everything in one place
View your video clips and photos in one convenient location — whether they're stored on your hard drive or on CD — automatically organized by date.
Organize visually
Tired of hunting through folders and clicking unrecognizable filenames to find the videos you need? Now, categorize and find your clips the easy way with visual tags that represent people, places, or events. Instantly view every video you've ever shot of your dog, for example, by simply clicking on its visual tag.
Quickly find your best clips
No need to watch hours of raw video to find the highlights. Take advantage of the Auto-Analyzer, which automatically tags your media so you can easily find your most interesting, highest quality footage and photos.
Find a specific part of the action — fast enhanced
Easily locate specific scenes in your videos thanks to automatic splitting of footage into individual scenes in the Sceneline or Timeline. Plus, you can tag and rate specific scenes and frames while previewing clips to find the best moments later on.
See just the videos you want to see new
Need certain types of clips and photos? Just set your criteria and they're brought together automatically in a Smart Album.
Find videos faster than ever
Find just the video you're looking for by typing tag names, dates, and other file information into a convenient search box.
Find scenes based on when they were shot
Opt to have the time and date your video was taken automatically applied to each file's naming structure, helping ensure that you can find what you need later.
Find videos by time period
View videos taken over a specific time period by clicking the intuitive Timeline.
Search by metadata
Quickly find and preview any video clip, no matter where it's stored, with expanded metadata search parameters, including video camera model, frame rate, resolution, duration, and more.
Pinpoint your search
Make quick work of complex searches with the power of visual tags. Instantly find videos that show only Jack, but not Jack and Jill, for instance.
- View your videos any way, anywhere
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View your movies virtually anywhere
Didn't bring your laptop to the party? You can still show off your favorite movies — from any web-enabled computer. Use the online Organizer, which looks and works just like your desktop Organizer, to find the videos you want and let the show begin.1
Get the big picture new
Get the full effect of your video clips and photos from within the Organizer with new full-screen previews.
See all your videos in one place
Browse through your video clips in one convenient location — whether they're stored on your hard drive or on CD — automatically organized by date.
Know where your videos are
Access every video stored on your computer from directly within the Organizer, where you can use convenient Folder View to add, delete, or move hard-drive folders.
- Easily manage and protect your videos
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See the same video clips and photos on every computer new
Forget trying to manually maintain your videos across multiple computers. With automatic syncing, the videos you add or edit on your desktop computer will be accessible from your laptop — as well as from any other web-connected computer.2
Easily manage photos on the go
Upload, share, and access the photos you take on your Windows Mobile® smartphone with ease. Your mobile uploads are added to your desktop Organizer automatically, and your photos are protected with online backup.2 Learn more
Back up your memories automatically — no scheduling required
Don't worry about losing your videos if you lose your computer. Keep your memories safe with automatic online backup and 2GB of free storage — enough for about 24 minutes of DVD-quality video. Easily add more storage as you need it.1 (Get 20GB with Plus.)
EDIT
Make terrific movies with less effort thanks to smart, automated options.
- Choose smart moviemaking options
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Create a polished movie instantly enhanced
Create polished movies with no effort using creative techniques from Hollywood directors. Just choose a theme, and InstantMovie automatically finds your best clips, trims away bad footage, and edits the clips together with coordinated music, titles, effects, motion graphics, and credits. All-new themes are included, and you can easily customize to achieve the results you envision.
Find the clips that meet your needs new
Let Smart Albums do the work of finding clips that meet the criteria most important to you, so you can quickly start making the movie you have in mind.
Quickly trim away all but your best footage new
Easily get rid of your least interesting, lowest quality footage to enhance your scenes or make your movie fit a desired duration. Smart Trim can automatically cut bad footage or recommend cuts to let you make the final decision.
Fix imperfections fast new
Let SmartFix automatically fix shaky footage and color and lighting problems so every clip looks its best.
Enjoy a perfect balance of audio new
Add music and sound effects without overpowering your dialogue or background audio. SmartMix automatically balances audio elements to give you professional-quality sound throughout your movie.
Add the perfect soundtrack
Use SmartSound® to add a variety of musical soundtracks that automatically adjust to perfectly match the length of your movie.
Get creative inspiration
Bring your ideas to life with relevant tutorials that appear just when you need them. New tutorials that give you even more ways to explore creative possibilities.2 (Get ongoing tutorials with Plus.)
- Edit with ease
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Make movies with drag-and-drop ease
Create your story quickly in the Sceneline, an easier alternative to the more traditional video-editing Timeline. Make a movie by simply dragging and dropping thumbnails of your clips, transitions, and effects.
View edits in real time
Why wait? See edits and effects as you make them.
Edit and preview in one convenient place
Edit and view your movie in one convenient place — the Monitor window — where you can easily trim and split clips, drop filters and effects right on a frame, create fun picture-in-picture effects, type titles and text right on the screen, and more.
Get the full effect of your movie as you work
Preview your movie full screen as you work with just the click of a button.
ENHANCE
Enhance your stories with fun, stylish motion graphics, effects, transitions, themes, titles, and disc menus.
- Customize with TV-style effects and transitions
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Impress your audience with dazzling effects enhanced
Play around with different visual effects to find the look you want. Browse effects by visual thumbnails and watch high-quality previews, drag and drop to apply them to your video, and then modify them using easy slider controls. (Get ongoing effects with Plus.)
Add visual interest with eye-catching transitions enhanced
Creatively move from one scene to the next with hundreds of TV-style transitions. You can even create your own transitions. (Get ongoing transitions with Plus.)
Tie it all together with a theme enhanced
Easily transform a series of clips into a real movie by dragging and dropping one of many visually stunning movie themes onto your footage. Themes offer coordinated music, transitions, effects, disc menus, and title screens, and new themes include Art in Motion, Outdoor Adventure, and Yearbook.
Have fun with graphics that follow the motion new
Want to add funny thought bubbles or goofy hats above people's heads? Use new motion tracking capabilities to add graphics, text, and effects that automatically move with the subjects in your scenes.
Add visual pop exactly where you want it new
Delight your audience with a touch of movie magic — blur faces, add cartoon heads, and more. Now you can apply any 2D video effect to a specific area of a scene and keep it locked on the action with motion tracking.
Enliven the action with artwork and animations new
Add sparkle to your scenes thanks to an all-new library of artwork, including fun frames, objects, and animations.
Easily put your subject in a new setting
Composite video with entertaining results. Use Videomerge to cleanly extract your moving subject from a solid color background and then drop it into a new setting for a fun or creative twist.
Show all the action
Drag one scene onto another to create picture-in-picture effects that show all the action.
Have fun with animations
Easily add animated graphics that liven up your scenes.
Get creative with stop-motion animation
Try your hand at animation. Use stop-motion video capture to animate an action figure, create a time-lapse movie of a sunset, and more.
Enhance photo slide shows
Instantly make photo slide shows more engaging by automatically adding custom panning and zooming and other effects.
- Sound your best
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Mix and refine your audio for greater impact
Use background music and sound effects to underscore emotions, add emphasis, or create a mood. The Audio Mixer works just like a mixing board in a recording studio, letting you adjust relative volumes with sliders so, for example, dialogue can be heard clearly over music.
Edit to the beat of a favorite song
Easily create entertaining slide shows and movies that move to the music. Adobe® Premiere® Elements software automatically detects the tempo of your musical soundtrack and syncs the beginning and end of each scene with the beats.
Create a rich, full soundtrack
Create soundtracks from audio CDs and MP3 files, use up to 99 audio tracks, sweeten your audio with effects like reverb and equalization, and take advantage of precise waveform controls.
Narrate your stories
Tell your story in your own voice by adding narration to your video.
- Add professional-quality menus and text
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Customize your discs with interactive menus
Design custom disc menus from scratch, or choose from dozens of Hollywood-style motion menu templates. Type in text and drag and drop to add your own video clips, images, and audio. (Get ongoing menus with Plus.)
Add a scene index for easy navigation
Take advantage of automatically created scene indexes or chapters for your menu with links that correspond to your video clips.
Animate titles to fit your movie's personality
Choose from a set of world-class Adobe fonts designed to look great on video and customize them with shadows, glows, and other effects. Then animate your titles to make them bounce, spin, or zoom across your scenes.
Add polished credits
Roll credits in more than 100 professionally designed templates.
- Be in complete control
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Edit with more control in the Timeline enhanced
Ready to take the next step in editing? Create your movie in the Timeline, which lets you work with up to 99 audio and video tracks for sophisticated results. Now you can easily copy and paste transitions from one part of the Timeline to another, replace a clip while retaining the effects and attributes of the original clip, and more.
Get help at the right time enhanced
Get lots of help bringing your ideas to life — or just trying new editing tricks — with relevant tutorials that give you even more ways to explore creative possibilities.2 (Get ongoing tutorials with Plus.)
Work the way that suits you enhanced
Focus on telling your story in a flexible workspace that you can customize — no need to click around to open and close panels. Even save different workspaces for different projects.
See just the tools you need
Enjoy a simplified workspace that puts the tools you need for a particular task front and center, and browse for effects and templates with ease.
Direct it all
Move images, graphics, and text around the screen with advanced control over opacity, position, rotation, and scale.
Work smoothly with effects enhanced
Like the way an effect makes your clip look? Apply it to multiple clips in a single action, or remove all of a clip's effects at once.
See every detail enhanced
Easily zoom in on details of your project, zoom out for an overview of your entire project, and quickly return to your previous zoom level.
Feel free to experiment
Try anything. With Auto Save, multiple undos, and the History panel, you can always go back to a previous version.
Work at professional speed
Edit as fast as you can with support for dual-core or multiple processor systems, advanced multi-threading technology, and Hyper-Threading Technology on the latest Intel® Pentium® based Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows Vista®, or Windows 7 systems.
SHARE
Share your movies with family and friends via DVD, Blu-ray Disc, mobile devices, YouTube™, and more.
- Share on DVD, Blu-ray Disc, the web, and devices
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Share memories in fresh, exciting ways on the web new
Share your memories in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of new animated templates that let you showcase photos and videos together. Adobe Flash® technology lets viewers have fun interacting with your movies. And share via public or private galleries — friends and family won't have to register to look.1 (Get ongoing Online Album templates with Plus.)
Share movies in HD for the highest quality
Take advantage of the latest technology and enjoy your movies in high definition, including on Blu-ray Disc.
Preview before you burn
Make sure your menu and movie are just as you envisioned them by previewing them on your computer before burning to disc.
Optimize for any screen
Let Adobe Premiere Elements automatically optimize your movie for high-quality playback on any device, from mobile phones to big-screen HD TVs. Plus, create and see your video in traditional television (4:3) or widescreen (16:9) format, and click once to convert your video to NTSC or PAL for a worldwide audience.
Create movie discs in a few simple steps
Go from camera to DVD or Blu-ray Disc, complete with menu and scene index, in a few easy steps. Fit hours of video on a single- or dual-layer DVD or Blu-ray Disc that's optimized for best results.
Share in many ways from one location
Follow easy steps for creating your movie once and then sharing it in multiple ways, including on disc, the web, and mobile devices.
Share your stories on the web
Easily upload your movies to YouTube, your Photoshop.com gallery, or your personal sharing page. Adobe Premiere Elements 7 takes care of optimizing and formatting for specific destinations so your movies always look great.
Share on the go
Show your finished movies on virtually any mobile device — including Apple iPhones, Sony PSP® (PlayStation® Portable) systems, mobile phones, and Apple iPods. Select from new export presets for many popular phone models.
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