This feature may prove problematic with movies of sporting events. What it tends to do, however, is flag up every instance of blur and camera shake, effectively offering to trim 50 per cent of your material. Theoretically, this ought to be a great feature for quickly trimming out those parts at the beginning and end of many clips in which the video camera points at the operator's own feet. An expanded 'tooltip' appears, listing its reasons for suggesting the trim. To find out what Premiere Elements thinks the problem is, you hover your mouse over the hatched sections of the main preview timeline. It then marks passages in each clip that it considers to be poor and, therefore, ripe for trimming out. When this is enabled, the program analyses the clips in your current project for quality. You can pick up a copy of Premiere Elements 8 now for around £75, or get it bundled with Photoshop Elements 8 for roughly £115.Īlthough no striking changes have been made to the Premiere Elements program interface, one new addition is a little Smart Trim button at the top of the Timeline/Sceneline pane (see screenshot below). The emphasis is on ease of use, and version 8 expands on this theme.
It provides just about everything you could want, from video effects and multi-track audio editing to titling and transitions. Version 8 also includes automated features for enhancing and trimming poor-quality clips, and introduces smart motion tracking.Īimed at the domestic user who wants a simple drag-and-drop approach to browsing, composing and exporting home movies, Premiere Elements is the top-selling video-editing software on the market.
Adobe's latest annual update to its home video-editing package, Premiere Elements, tries to pack more of everything onto the disc: more clip art, more themes and more effects.