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Start quickly with all your media at your fingertips (New)

Find what you need faster using the same Organizer that's included with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software. Visually tag video clips and photos to categorize by people, places, or events. Then you can view, search, and sort your assets in a variety of ways — including by filename, tag, date, and time — and quickly start making your movie.

Jump-start your editing with Movie Themes (New)

Turn a sequence of scenes into a polished movie in just a few clicks! Choose from event-based themes like Wedding and Birthday or style-based themes such as Silent Film and Music Video. Adobe Premiere® Elements software automatically applies coordinated transitions, music, and professionally designed layouts for titles, credits, and disc menus.

Import from virtually any device

Easily import video, audio, and still images from virtually any device, including camcorders, digital cameras, webcams, and mobile phones.

Edit video from the latest camcorders (New)

Take advantage of project presets optimized for newer hard-disk camcorders.

Get oriented quickly (New)

Enjoy a clean, easy-to-use workspace that helps you get up to speed quickly and start creating great movies.

Create movie discs in a few simple steps (Enhanced)

Go from camera to DVD or Blu-ray Disc, complete with menu and scene index, in a few easy steps.

Easily create your movie

Make movies with drag-and-drop ease (Enhanced)

Create your story faster 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. Practical new options, like the ability to copy and paste thumbnails, make the Sceneline even easier to use.

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 visualize the starting and ending point of every clip, transition, sound effect, and other event so you can more easily synchronize and sequence multiple events. Access up to 99 audio and video tracks for sophisticated results.

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.

Have fun 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.

View edits in real time

Why wait? See edits and effects as you make them.

Easily cut the bad stuff

Choose the best scenes in your movie and easily cut away any unwanted footage.

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.

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 (New)

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 or Windows Vista® systems.

Be in complete control

Rescue shaky footage (New)

Don't let a shaky camera ruin otherwise great footage. Restore it with the new Image Stabilizer filter.

Find a specific part of the action — fast (New)

Quickly locate individual scenes, regardless of type of video. Adobe Premiere Elements automatically splits footage into individual scenes and displays them as thumbnails in the Sceneline or Timeline, so you can quickly go to a specific place in the action.

Find scenes based on when they were shot (New)

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 with a quick search in the Organizer.

Work the way that suits you

Focus on telling your story in a flexible workspace that you can customize to how you like to work — no need to click around to open and close panels.

See just the tools you need (New)

Enjoy a simplified workspace that puts the tools you need for a particular task front and center, and browse for effects and templates more easily than ever before.

Direct it all

Move images, graphics, and text around the screen with advanced control over opacity, position, rotation, and scale.

See every detail

Easily zoom in on details of your project, or zoom out for an overview of your entire project.

Get help every step of the way

See how it's done

Get coaching each step of the way with detailed how-to moviemaking guides.

Learn more at your own pace

Learn the ropes of moviemaking by visiting Adobe.com for free tutorials, helpful hints, and more.

Customize

Add TV-style effects and transitions

Impress your audience with dazzling effects (Enhanced)

Choose from hundreds of amazing special effects that you can customize and use again. Adobe Premiere Elements 4 includes 10 new effects, including Old Film, Airbrush, and Earthquake.

Browse and apply effects with greater ease (Enhanced)

Experimenting with effects has never been easier! Browse effects by visual thumbnails, drag and drop to apply them to your video, and then modify them using easy slider controls.

Easily change backgrounds with blue/green screen keying (Enhanced)

Put your subject in a different setting by using the Blue/Green Screen effect to replace the background. Now, Adobe Premiere Elements can automatically detect clips with blue or green screen backgrounds and remove the background with exceptional results.

Add visual interest with eye-catching transitions (Enhanced)

Creatively move from one scene to the next with hundreds of transitions, including over 20 new transitions like 3D Explosions, 3D Transformations, Art Blends, and Motion Blends. Even create your own transitions.

Enhance photo slide shows (New)

Make photo slide shows more engaging by adding a pan-and-zoom effect with just a few clicks.

Sound your best

Mix and refine your audio for greater impact (New)

Use background music and sound effects to underscore emotions, add emphasis, or create a mood. The new 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 (New)

Easily create entertaining slide shows and movies that move to the music. Adobe Premiere Elements 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

Automatically convert audio to industry-standard Dolby® Digital Stereo for cinema-quality sound, 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 your personal touch with professional-quality disc menus and text

Customize your discs with interactive menus (Enhanced)

Easily personalize your menus! Start with professionally designed menu templates, and then type in text and drag and drop to add your own video clips, images, and audio.

Animate titles to fit your movie's personality (Enhanced)

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.

Credit your cast and crew

Roll credits in more than 100 professionally designed templates.

Share

Share your story on DVD and Blu-ray Disc

Add the finishing touch with a menu and scene index

Design custom disc menus from scratch, or choose from dozens of menu templates. Adobe Premiere Elements automatically creates scene indexes or chapters for your menu with links that correspond to your video clips.

Share movies in HD for the highest quality (New)

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.

Burn to disc in a snap (Enhanced)

Fit hours of video on a single- or dual-layer DVD or Blu-ray Disc that's optimized for best results.

Show your movie on any screen with direct upload to YouTube™, sharing on mobile devices, and more

Share in many ways from one convenient place (New)

See all of your sharing options in one convenient location, the new Sharing Center. 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 (Enhanced)

Easily upload your movies to YouTube™ or your personal sharing page. Adobe Premiere Elements 4 takes care of optimizing and formatting for the specific destination so your movies always look great.

Share on the go (Enhanced)

Show your finished movies on virtually any mobile device — including Apple iPods, Sony PSP® (PlayStation® Portable) systems, and mobile phones. Select from new export presets for many popular phone models.

Optimize for any screen (Enhanced)

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.

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