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| Premiere Elements 4 (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Adobe Systems Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: £78.02
Buy New: £66.99
You Save: £11.03 (14%)
New (5) from £65.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 82
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7.8 x 2.1
MPN: 25530453
EAN: 5051254220664
ASIN: B000VZ8QT6
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Product Description
Create and share great-looking movies in minutes with Adobe Premiere Elements 4. Get started quickly with all your video clips and photos at your fingertips and easy options for turning them into polished movies. Show your style with amazing audio and video effects. And easily share on YouTube, Blu-ray Disc, and virtually anywhere else.Main Features:Start quickly with all your media at your fingertips: Find what you need faster using the same Organizer that's included with Adobe Photoshop Elements softwa...
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Really awful software June 12, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As with most of the other reviewers here, once installed the software suffers from multiple crashes, very long start up and loading times and if you try to add text to any part of your production, once you click enter you watch the screen through squinted eyes hoping it won't crash. I cannot comment on SDV as I only use HDV from my Sony HDV camcorder (which I do not import directly, but to my hard drive via HDVSplit a free software and then into Elements) but when rendering, it's useful to have a book handy as you'll need to do something whilst the computer chugs away as I have found that for every second shown left remaining whilst rendering, in reality every second is woth five or more. I have tried to burn four DVD's, one after the other to save time, but the system crashed after the first burn stating 'memory allocation error' and I have 4GB of the stuff. I have the latest Intel Quad processor 9450, Gigabyte X48 chipset motherboard, 4GB RAM, a Radeon HD3650 graphics card with 512 onboard RAM and two 400GB hard drives. And it still crashes. If, as per one of the other reviewers here, you have to have the right motherboard/processor/graphics card combination, then your purchase and the successful use thereof will be completely hit or miss (even if you comply with the minimum requirements on the box. Maybe they should state their favourite combination instead of just giving a minimum requirement). When changing a single letter in a rolling title at the end of my compilation due to a mistake on my part (bad proof read), it took one and a half hours to render, whereupon I found another two mistakes after the rendering, again independently, and so to change them took another three hours, so I spent the whole evening just editing three single letter mistakes. It's a soul destroying process.
For a company like Adobe (for which I used Premiere Elements 2 with absolutely no problem and currently use CS3 Collection) it is really disgusting and for which the should be utterly ashamed. Do not (as mentioned by others) in any way, shape or form waste your money on this product until at least a patch or 5 comes out and only then after it has been fully tested and there are positive reviews. I would like to give zero stars, but you can't.
I am an extremely unhappy punter.
 Fingers crossed - no problems yet. April 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
On a Vista Home Premium machine I've had no problems with this package so far. I've edited 1 hour 15 minutes of video (6 scenes) with transitions and burnt to DVD (2 copies) with a menu. After that, 20 minutes with titles, effects, transitions, soundtrack and narration and burnt to DVD as well as saving as AVI. I have used Pinnacle Studio V9 on an XP machine in the past - that used to fail regularly but I got by with it. Premiere Elements 4 is like a professional product compared with that. I am very pleased I wasn't swayed by the negative reviews. I thought it necessary to say that it does work for me. I'd give it five stars but I haven't been using it long enough for that.
POWERFUL PC, TECH` SUPPORT-(many hours/days),..--P` ELEMENTS 4 A DISASTER!! April 12, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
My view, as the title intimates, Premiere Elements 4 DOES NOT DO WHAT IT SAYS `ON THE BOX`, this product was obviously NOT tested on `real world` pc`s, I have 3 SATA discs, QUAD cpu, Gigabyte 8800GT, 4GB fast memory and have done everything suggested by the friendly Adobe support staff, SOUND OUT OF SYNC, NO CURE, my view is DON`T TOUCH PREMIERE ELEMENTS 4 WITH A BARGEPOLE (unless you want grey hairs),it simply cannot handle High Definition material,... DON`T JUST TAKE MY WORD FOR IT,CHECK OTHER SITES,..there are very few praises for this product.
Adobe Photoshop is a great product, ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 4 IS A DISASTER AND COMPLETELY UNUSEABLE FOR HIGH DEFINITION, believe me, I have tried it extensively!!
 Premiere Elements 4 March 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As with it's predecessors I have had no problem with this product. It does exactly as it says on the box. I have just completed my first short movie using Elements 4 complete with more effects and transitions than 3 & 2. At first it seems more complicated but after a bit of practice becomes quite easy.
More bugs than a dog's back. March 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A more bug-ridden piece of software of have yet to come across - and that even includes software I've written myself. It crashes about every five minutes when editing HDV - it's awful. Patches? What patches. I'm an experienced photoshop user, and needed an entry level package for some film editing. But the stability of this product is appalling - Adobe you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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