Premiere Elements 4 (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Adobe Systems Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: £78.02
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 783
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 1-2 business days
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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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 Happy Happy September 2, 2008
I purchased this after the "try before you buy", simply because I found it to be an excellent piece of software.
However, in my experience, to be certain of incident free use, I have disconnected my broadband connection, before stopping the Norton Antivirus. (I only stop the broadband for obvious reasons).
It's a smart piece of software, which makes video editing a breeze, and gives great control over the imported clips.
My advice - use the trial first, and if no issues occur, pay for the licence.
 System requirements are very important!!! August 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this product because a very good friend of mine uses it on his laptop, while he is away on business, he is a photographer and graphic designer who sometimes utilises film in his work. I mentioned the reviews mentioned here and he said that he had never experienced any problems i described, he also said that most of the problems sound like they are caused by hardrives that operate at 5400 rpm's that cannot keep up with video editing make sure you are on a 7200 rpm drive. Also you will require a video/graphic card with at least 64Mb of ram.
We run it on an ACER laptop from pc world and it works a treat, we dont have any problems creating, editing rendering or burning and i would recomend it to anyone as long as you have the correct hardware to let the programme run correctly, video editing on the level that premier runs on uses up a lot of memory, your computer will be worked hard keeping up with the things the software allows you to do!
 Really awful software June 12, 2008
8 out of 8 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 3 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
7 out of 7 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!!
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