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Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0

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AdobeĀ® PremiereĀ® Elements 3.0 software makes it easy to create and share impressive home videos. Get started quickly with helpful moviemaking options; wow your audience with amazing effects; and show your videos on DVD, the web, and virtually anywhere else.

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Easily create home videos and DVDs

Get started quickly with helpful moviemaking options

Take your footage from camera to DVD in two simple steps, or drop it into the Sceneline. Rearrange clips and add effects with drag-and-drop simplicity.

Movie-making options


Edit and preview in one convenient place—the Monitor window

Edit and view your movie in one convenient place, the Monitor window, where you can easily trim and split clips, drop filters and effects on a frame, create fun picture-in-picture effects, type text right on the screen, and preview in full screen.


Easily assemble your video clips in the Sceneline

Assemble your video faster in the Sceneline, a new alternative to the Timeline that lets you quickly drag and drop to rearrange thumbnails of your clips or add transitions and effects. It’s as easy as making a photo slide show.

Assemble videoclips


Import from virtually any device

Easily import video, audio, and still images from virtually any media device, including HDV and DVD camcorders, web cameras (WDM analog), MPEG-4 video recorders, and select mobile phones.

Any device


Enjoy native HDV support

Capture and edit HDV footage in its native format.

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Wow your audience with amazing effects

Narrate your stories

Tell the story in your own voice by adding narration to your video.


Add dazzling effects

Choose from hundreds of amazing special effects that you can customize and use again.

Dazzling effects


Use eye-catching transitions

Creatively move from one scene to the next with hundreds of transitions, including dissolves, fades, and wipes. Even create your own.


Create terrific titles

Choose from a set of world-class Adobe fonts designed to look good on video. Then add shadows, glows, and other effects to make them unique.

Terrific titles

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Share your videos anywhere

Share on the web

Share your movie with family and friends on the web.

Share on the web


Easily create dynamic, personalized DVDs

Design unique DVD menus using your own video, photos, audio, and text, and save time with automatic scene indexes that link to corresponding clips in your video. Then burn your finished movie to single- or dual-layer DVDs.

Dynamic DVDs


Share your videos on virtually any viewing device, including Apple iPods and PSP™ (PlayStation® Portable) systems

Show your videos on DVD, VHS, the web, mobile phones, and portable video players.


Count on quality playback

Let Adobe Premiere Elements automatically save your video on DVD at maximum quality for smooth, reliable playback.


Enjoy rich Dolby® Digital sound

Give your audience high-quality sound by automatically converting audio to industry-standard Dolby Digital stereo. Dolby technology compresses your audio while maintaining high fidelity, allowing you to burn more video onto a single disc without sacrificing sound quality.

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