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| Author | James Morris |
| Published | 14th Oct 2009 |
| Manufacturer | Adobe |
| Price | £97.39 (Exc VAT) |
| as reviewed | £112.00 (Inc VAT) |
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Comments for Adobe Premiere Elements 8 and Photoshop Elements 8
Dave Jefferson said on 14th October 2009
Barbara Allen said on 14th October 2009
As usual you do the best review on the net! You are obviously very knowledgeable. I need help deciding which program can do the things I want to do. I'm doing the trials, just started, but since I'm so new to this it takes me a while to figure out the best way to do things. I'm doing home movies, and I envision doing two things in particular. One is I want to be able to zoom into a face and put into a frame? or shape and move it. Pinnacle does this with their Creative Pack Add Ons(possibly otherwise, too) The Winter Pack, ornaments. It also does something similar in Prem.Pk wedding2, where the the scene is captured and turns into a framed moving object,a transition,I believe. However Pinnacle seems to be limited to doing it only their way. I've never seen anything quite like them in the other programs. The other thing I want to do is have 3 or 4 videos overlapping(faded edges)at the same time, but not in squares or split screen etc.Like a video montage. Ple-e-ease, can you help me?
James Morris said on 16th October 2009
@Barbara Allen Not sure about the framing aspect, but Premiere Elements has had exceptionally good motion control, cropping, zooming, and layering abilities right from the first release. I suspect the clip art added in the latest version could have what you're after, but you could easily create your own graphical frame in Photoshop Elements and use that.
James Morris said on 16th October 2009
And thanks for the kind words about the review!
David Foster said on 18th October 2009
Hi - Can you confirm this will run on Windows 7 ( 64 bit ) can't seem to find anything that will confirm this 9 only says Windows 7 on Adobe website )
Cheers - Foz
James Morris said on 19th October 2009
It's supposed to run on Windows 7, but I actually had problems running it on 64-bit Windows Vista. This was preview code, though, so you can't infer from that it doesn't work. I would be very surprised, as Premiere Pro runs just fine on 64-bit Windows and Elements uses the same basic codebase.
Kyleigh said on 15th November 2009
Hi there- Do you know if the Adobe Photoshop Elements and 8 and Adobe Premiere Elements will be able to run on a HP Pavillion Slimline s7520n desktop PC from 2006? I looked at the specs on my HP and the system requirements for the Adobe package, but I get confused when it starts talking about number of GHz and GBs. I really would like to get this program, but I just need to know if it will run smoothly on my computer...
Here is the link to the specs from my computer- http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00696073&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=3199127#N938
And the system requirements for the Adobe Photoshop Elements and 8 and Adobe Premiere Elements- http://www.adobe.com/products/psprelements/systemreqs/
Maybe you could look at them and compare them and help me out! I'd be so greatful!! GREAT review, by the way!
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How does the photo face recognition compare to picassa 3.5's?