Create game fun movies in as little as 15 minutes!

Software Information

Create and share great-looking movies in minutes with Adobe Premiere Elements 4 software. Get started quickly with easy moviemaking options; show your style with amazing audio and video effects; and share your movies virtually anywhere.  With Adobe Premiere Elements, you can transfer your raw footage directly to disc or create a polished movie in minutes!  Start with all of your video clips and photos at your fingertips and easy moviemaking options.

• Get started quickly with easy moviemaking options
• Show your style with amazing effects
• Share on the Web, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and more

Tell your story with ease and control.  Create your movie in one convenient window with all the tools you need at your fingertips  Use the Sceneline for drag-and-drop ease or the Timeline for more advanced control.  Give your movies professional polish with a professional touch.  Impress your audience with animated titles; custom, interactive disc menus; rich audio; and dazzling visual affects and transitions.

Adobe Premiere Elements offers a variety of options for easily sharing your movies.  Upload directly to YouTube or your personal sharing site, burn to DVD or Blu-ray Disc, or share on mobile phones and other devices.


New Features

• Create movies with drag-and-drop ease in the Sceneline
• Tell the story in your own voice by adding narration to your movie
• Easily create dynamic DVDs with customized menus
• Access all of your photos and video clips from one convenient place
• Find what you need faster using the same Organizer that is included with Adobe Photoshop Elements software
• Turn a sequence of scenes into a polished movie in just a few clicks with Movie Themes
• Share movies in many ways from one convenient place, the new Sharing Center
• Upload movies directly to YouTube
• Animate titles to fit your movie's personality
• Share movies in high definition, including on Blu-ray Disc
• Easily edit movies to the beat of a favorite song
• Rescue shaky footage with the new Image Stabilizer filter

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 automatically applies coordinated transitions, music, and professionally designed layouts for titles, credits, and disc menus.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Unique Advantages

Create

• Get started quickly with all your video clips and photos at your fingertips and easy options for transforming them into polished movies.

Customize

• Show your personal style by enhancing your movies with dazzling visual effects and transitions, rich audio, and interactive disc menus.

Share

• Broadcast far and wide by uploading your movies directly to YouTube or your personal sharing site; share with family and friends on DVD, mobile phones, and portable media devices; and even enjoy movies in high definition, including on Blu-ray Disc.

Software Features

• Go from camera to DVD or Blu-ray Disc, complete with menu and scene index, in a few easy steps.
• Choose from professionally designed Movie Themes that include coordinated music, titles, transitions, and more.
• See all of your media in the Organizer.  Find files using visual tags and a variety of viewing options that make it easy to grab what you need to get started.
• Use tags to find and view photos and video clips b people, places, and events.
• Browse thumbnails of your video clips, audio clips, and photos.
• Bring in video from just about any device, including the latest camcorders, digital cameras, webcams, and mobile phones.
• Drag on scene onto another to create picture-in-picture effects that show multiple clips at once.
• Type text right on the screen; easily change the font, style, and color; and add animation.
• Easily trim or split clips to remove unwanted footage, and see realtime edits in the Monitor window.
• Tell the story in your own voice by adding narration to your video.
• Make sure your movie is just as you envisioned it by previewing it in full screen as you go.
• Just drag and drop to arrange clips, insert transitions, and add effects in the Sceneline.
• Switch to the Timeline view for greater control over synchronizing and sequencing multiple clips, sound effects, and other events.  You can access up to 99 audio and video tracks for more sophisticated results.

Software Computer Requirements

• Microsoft Microsoft windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Microsoft windows Vista
• Intel Pentium 4 or Celeron 1.7GHz (or compatible) processor; Pentium 4 3GHz processor required for HD or Blu-ray
• For Microsoft windows XP: 512MB of RAM (1GB required for HD or Blu-ray)
• For Microsoft windows Vista: 1GB of RAM (2GB required for HD or Blu-ray)
• 4.5GB of available Hard Disk space
• Color monitor with 16-bit color Video Card
• 1,024x768 monitor resolution at 96dpi or less
• Microsoft DirectX 9 or 10 compatible sound and display driver
• DVD-ROM drive (compatible DVD burner required to burn DVDs; compatible Blu-ray burner required to burn Blu-ray Discs)
• DV/i.LINK/FireWire/IEEE 1394 interface to connect a Digital 8 or DV camcorder, or a USB2 interface to connect a DV-via-USB-compatible DV camcorder (other video devices supported via the Media Downloader)

Supported import/export formats include:

MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DV, AVI, Microsoft windows Media, QuickTime, JVC Everio MOD (import only), 3GP, ASF (import only), WAV, WMA (import only), Dolby Digital Stereo, PSD (import only), JPEG, PNG (import only), DVD, Blu-ray Disc (export only)

Import/export of some formats including DVD, Blu-ray, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, and Dolby Digital Stereo may require activation via an Internet connection. Activation is fast, easy, and free. Import/export of 3GP, 3GP2, and MPEG-4 requires QuickTime software.