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Came into Premiere Elements with no video experience.
This program is targeted to DV camcorder owners. It is an all in one type program for capture, editing, effects, and DVD authoring. It has limited output capabilties.
The real strength is the video editing. It is almost as powerful as Premiere and once you understand how the program works it works very well.
The downside as I see them. The manual is terrible. It assumes you know all about DV. It gives basic guidance on tasks but never really tells you what the program can do and how to make it do it! Additionally, the template based DVD menu creation capability is very limited. You can't have a "play first" intro clip. There is no way to do video stills as buttons on the main menu so you either have to author a full lenght movie (does anyone want to get an hour long home movie from your mother in-law?) or your limited to text buttons on the main menu.
All in all it is a very good program in it's first iteration. If they improve the DVD Authoring capabilites it will far outclass most of the cheaper all in one apps like Pinnacle Studio. |
