8mm Forum: Adobe Premier Elements

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Posted by Rob Young. (Member # 131) on July 13, 2006, 06:47 AM:

I'm about to transfer some super 8 to DVcam using a broadcast camera which has provided pretty good results in the past (acceptable contrast, decent colour since you can set the camera colour balance manually and no flicker thanks to the camera's "clear scan" function).

I want to edit the footage in my PC but don't want to spend a fortune so was thinking about Adobe Premier Elements as I love Photoshop and have read good things (like it is very stable and doesn't crash all the time, etc.)

I wondered if any forum members use Premier and what you think of it?

I'm especially interested in what sort of colour correction and image clean-up tools are available in the stripped-down Elements version if any of you good folk know [Smile]

Posted by Jan Bister (Member # 332) on July 14, 2006, 12:03 AM:

You could peruse Adobe's own website for some in-depth information about Premiere Elements 2.0, or you could read this PCMag review - or even download a trial version from Adobe and see for yourself if it's right. [Smile]

Posted by Rob Young. (Member # 131) on July 15, 2006, 05:00 AM:

Thanks for the tips, Jan.

Adobe's "in-depth" is interesting and answers some questions.

The free trial download would be perfect, but having registered and waited the best part of 3 hours (on broadband!) for it to download [Eek!]

, it then refused to run [Roll Eyes]

Guess I'll just take the risk and buy a copy; to be fair it is very well priced on Amazon, etc.

Posted by Jan Bister (Member # 332) on July 15, 2006, 08:21 AM:

3 hours on broadband, and refuses to run? Bummer [Eek!]

But, well, you went for the full version so congratulations on that - and hope this one does run on your computer. [Smile]

Posted by Rob Young. (Member # 131) on July 15, 2006, 09:32 AM:

Ridiculous, isn't it? I've never known something to take so long to download!

Well, the reason it wouldn't run was that, apparently, the downloaded files were "corrupted". Hopeless.

I'm going to save up for a hard-copy from Amazon I think, Jan.

Still just going for Elements for now to see what it is like. Should have no problems running it on my current system...I just think Adobe's download was a bit iffy [Roll Eyes]

Shame, still, thanks for the advice as it would have great to try it out first had it worked.

Posted by Jan Bister (Member # 332) on July 15, 2006, 10:11 AM:

Rob,

if you're familiar with BitTorrent at all, what we could do is I download the trial copy from Adobe myself, then make it available via a torrent file for you to download directly from me (instead of the website). This should ensure that you get a corruption-free copy that will install properly...

Posted by Carlos Plaza (Member # 578) on July 18, 2006, 07:12 AM:

Hey Rob...Adobe Premier Elements should work out fine for you as long as you will not go 'pro' with your editing. Elements is very similar to Adobe's 'pro' version, but a couple of software releases back from their current 'pro' version. A few years ago, that version sold for several hundred US dollars, so $80.00 US is not a bad deal.
Best of luck,
Carlos

Posted by Rob Young. (Member # 131) on July 19, 2006, 08:51 AM:

Jan, many thanks for your very generous offer.

I'd already ordered Elements by the time I read your post, so it should be with me soon, but, again, I do appreciate the offer.

Carlos, yep, I think it should do the job. I love Photoshop and Premier Elements really is very cheap.

Since I'm primarily using it to clean-up and re-edit film transfers, I'll let you all know how I find it ...

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