Adobe Premiere Elements 11 / Features

Intuitively sort and manage videos and photos based on people, places, and events using new Organizer views.

Relive your journeys by viewing your videos and photos on a map based on where they were taken.*

Want to find shots that include your surfboard, your grandma's house, or the Eiffel Tower? Get more precise matches with Object Search, which automatically finds your photos based on what's in them.

Use your Facebook Friends list to quickly tag faces in your photos and easily share them on Facebook.*

No more searching through folders and clicking unrecognizable filenames — categorize and find your clips the easy way with visual tags that represent people, places, things, or events. Click on your pet's tag to see every video she's in.

No more hunting for photos that feature specific friends or family members. People Recognition automatically identifies the people in your photos so you can find what you need, fast.

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.

Easily find specific scenes in your videos thanks to automatic splitting of footage into individual scenes. You can tag and rate specific scenes and frames while previewing clips to find the best moments later on.

Need certain types of clips and photos? Just set your criteria and they're brought together automatically in a Smart Album.

Find just the video you're looking for by typing tag names, dates, and other file information into a convenient search box. Or view videos on an intuitive Timeline.

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.

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 bring your photos to life using customized pan and zoom motions that add drama or fun to fit your story. Automated options can even do the work of finding faces and panning and zooming to them.

Use sliders to adjust footage color as easily as you would adjust the color in your photos.

Automatically boost color tone and vibrance without affecting skin tones. You can also independently adjust color in highlights, shadows, and midtones for perfect color throughout your movie.

Take advantage of Hollywood directors' techniques with InstantMovie, which automatically edits together your best clips with coordinated music, titles, and effects from your choice of movie theme. All-new themes are included.

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Easily get rid of your least interesting, lowest quality footage to enhance your scenes or make your movie fit a desired length. Smart Trim can automatically cut bad footage or recommend cuts to let you make the final decision.

Let SmartFix automatically fix shaky footage and color and lighting problems so every clip looks its best.

Easily reduce background noise and fix problems with audio volume and clarity so your movie has high-quality sound from start to finish.

Create entertaining video composites. 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.

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.

Use SmartSound to add a variety of musical soundtracks that automatically adjust to perfectly match the length of your movie. Customize musical arrangement and mood to fit your story.

Jump into Quick mode to start editing and enhancing your videos right away, and move up to Expert mode for advanced options that let you create amazing movies.

Experience fluid responsiveness and high performance when editing video, including from AVCHD or other high-definition camcorders. Adobe Premiere Elements uses technology from Adobe Premiere Pro to help ensure optimized HD editing.

Create your story quickly in Quick Edit mode, an easier alternative to using the more traditional video editing Timeline. Make a movie by simply dragging and dropping thumbnails of your clips, transitions, and effects.

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

Preview your movie full screen as you work with just the click of a button, and view edits in real time.

Edit your movie in the Timeline to work with up to 99 audio and video tracks. Copy and paste transitions from one part of the Timeline to another, replace a clip while retaining the original's effects and attributes, and more.

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

Find the tools you need for a particular task front and center, and browse for effects and templates with ease.

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

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.

Easily zoom in on details of your project, zoom out for an overview, and quickly return to your previous zoom level.

Try anything. With Auto Save, multiple undos, and the History panel, you can always go back to a previous version.

Use new FilmLooks to apply favorite cinematic styles to your movies.

Create emphasis, suspense, or drama in key movie moments by adding slow-motion effects, and add fast-motion effects to accelerate your narrative or create a sense of energy, excitement, or fun.

Use blend modes to enhance one clip with the colors or textures of another clip, add your signature or a copyright line as a watermark, and more.

Creatively move from one scene to the next with hundreds of TV-style transitions. You can even create your own.

Drag one scene onto another to create picture-in-picture effects that show all the action.

Easily add animated graphics that liven up your scenes.

Bring your ideas to life with relevant tutorials that show you the ins and outs of organizing, editing, enhancing, and sharing your movies.

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.

Drop a theme onto your footage to transform it into a movie. Themes offer coordinated music, transitions, effects, disc menus, and title screens.

Blur faces, add cartoon hats, and create other touches of movie magic. Easily add any 2D video effect to a specific area of a scene and keep it locked there throughout the action.

Add sparkle to your scenes thanks to a library of artwork that includes fun frames, objects, and animations.

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.

Easily create entertaining slide shows and movies that move to the music. Adobe Premiere Elements automatically detects the tempo of your musical soundtrack to help you easily sync the beginning and end of each scene with the beats.

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

Use background music and sound effects to underscore emotions, add emphasis, or create a mood. The Audio Mixer lets you adjust relative volumes with sliders so, for example, dialogue can be heard clearly over music.

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.

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 clips, images, and audio.

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.

Take advantage of automatically created scene indexes or chapters for your menu, with links that correspond to your video clips.

Roll credits in any of more than 100 professionally designed templates.

Quickly share your video clips and photo slide shows on the popular Vimeo site.*

Burn HD-quality movies to affordable DVD discs using standard burners.

Import video clips and immediately share them on Facebook and YouTube, and quickly share finished movies on Facebook.*

Share movies in high-quality AVCHD format.

Conveniently share videos and photos directly from the Organizer, which automatically optimizes your media so it looks its best.

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.

Easily upload your finished movies to YouTube or your personal website.* Adobe Premiere Elements takes care of optimizing and formatting for specific destinations so your movies always look great.

Show finished movies on mobile devices including iPad, iPod, and iPhone; other mobile phones; and Sony PSP® (PlayStation® Portable) systems. Select from new export presets for many popular phone models.

Debut your movie with a convenient, interactive web DVD viewing experience. Easily share your movie — complete with a scene index and chapter menus — on your own website.

Share your memories in unique Online Albums with animated templates that let you show off photos and videos together, with music. Share them to Photoshop Showcase or your own website.

Take advantage of the latest technology and enjoy your movies in high definition, including on Blu-ray Disc.

Make sure your menu and movie are just as you envisioned them by previewing them on your computer before burning to disc.

Let Adobe Premiere Elements 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.

Follow easy steps for creating your movie once and then sharing it in multiple ways, including on disc, the web, and mobile devices.