Adobe Premiere Elements 8 (Win)

With Adobe Premiere Elements 8 software, making incredible movies is easier than ever. Enhance your stories with professional style. Share virtually anywhere. And easily manage and protect all your video clips and photos. Amazing new features include:

• All new powerful Organiser-- find your best stuff fast
• Add motion-tracking graphics that move with your movie stars
• New automated options --create better footage faster

NEW FEATURES

• Have fun with graphics that follow the motion
  Want to add funny thought bubbles or goofy hats above people's heads? Use new motion tracking capabilities to add graphics, text, and effects that automatically move with the subjects in your scenes.
• Manage and protect all your clips and photos from one convenient place
  Bring all your video clips and photos together in the powerful, easy-to-use, fully featured new Organizer -- the hub of your video and photo experience. Now it's easier than ever to find, view, and protect all your photos and video clips, and you can even view video clips full screen. Then dive in to a full range of creative activities and start enjoying your memories.
• Save time with new automated options
  Make movies with less effort. Adobe Premiere Elements software can automatically fix shaky footage and color and lighting problems, trim away all but your best footage, and balance audio elements to give you professional-quality sound throughout your movie.
• Enliven the action with artwork and animations
  Add sparkle to your scenes thanks to an all-new library of artwork, including fun frames, objects, and animations.
• Get the big picture
  Get the full effect of your video clips and photos from within the Organizer with new full-screen previews.
• Add visual pop exactly where you want it
  Delight your audience with a touch of movie magic -- blur faces, add cartoon heads, and more. Now you can apply any 2D video effect to a specific area of a scene and keep it locked on the action with motion tracking.
• Share memories in fresh, exciting ways on the web
  Showcase your videos in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of dynamic, animated templates. Adobe Flash technology lets viewers interact with your videos for an entertaining experience.
• Create a polished movie instantly - enhanced
  Use creative editing techniques from Hollywood directors. InstantMovie automatically edits together your best clips with coordinated music, titles, effects, and transitions from the movie theme of your choice. All-new themes are included, and you can easily customize to achieve the results you envision.
• Enjoy support for Windows 7
  Take advantage of support for the new Windows 7 platform and the hands-on capabilities of Windows Touch technology.

TOP FEATURES

• Do it all with one powerful yet easy-to-use product
  Use Adobe Premiere Elements 8 software for all your video needs. Import and manage your video clips; edit them together yourself or choose automated options to effortlessly create incredible movies; enhance your movies with professional-quality effects, sound, titles, and Hollywood-style motion menus; share them on the web, disc, and everywhere else.
• Create a polished movie instantly - enhanced
  Use creative editing techniques from Hollywood directors. InstantMovie automatically edits together your best clips with coordinated music, titles, effects, and transitions from the movie theme of your choice. All-new themes are included, and you can easily customize to achieve the results you envision.
• Quickly find the clips you're looking for - enhanced
  Want to find your best video clips or clips that meet a particular set of criteria? Take advantage of the Auto-Analyzer, which automatically tags your footage and photos for quality and interest. A variety of smart search options make it easy to zero in on just the media you need.
• Add professional-quality effects and transitions - enhanced
  Add entertaining graphics that automatically follow the action in your movie. Easily combine elements from different scenes for entertaining results. And add visual appeal with hundreds of amazing special effects and TV-style transitions, including several all-new options.
• Energize your movies with music
  Use SmartSound to add a variety of musical soundtracks that automatically adjust to perfectly match the length of your movie. Even synchronize scenes to the beat of your soundtrack.
• Conveniently share your movie and enjoy the latest technology
  Follow easy steps to create your movie once and then share it in many ways, including on disc, the web, or mobile devices. Share on high-quality HD or Blu-ray Disc. You can enjoy your movie on virtually any screen, from your iPod to your HD flat screen TV.
• Make movies with drag-and-drop ease
  Create your story fast in the Sceneline, an easier alternative to the more traditional video-editing Timeline. Make your movie by simply dragging and dropping thumbnails of your clips, transitions, and effects.

Effortlessly create incredible movies

Adobe Premiere Elements 8 software offers a complete solution for easy moviemaking:

ORGANIZE
Easily view and protect your video clips and photos in a powerful and convenient media management hub.

• Bring all your footage and photos together -- Bring in video from the latest camcorders, digital cameras, webcams, mobile phones, VHS tapes, DVDs, analog and digital TV tuners, and set-top DVD recorders. Import and edit video from high-definition AVCHD camcorders.
• Organize with ease and find what you need fast -- View your video clips and photos in one convenient location - whether they're stored on your hard drive or on CD - automatically organized by date. View instantly every video you've ever shot of your dog, for example, by simply clicking on its visual tag.
• View your videos any way, anywhere -- Get the full effect of your video clips and photos from within the Organizer with new full-screen previews. Browse through your video clips in one convenient location - whether they're stored on your hard drive or on CD - automatically organized by date. Access every video stored on your computer from directly within the Organizer, where you can use convenient Folder View to add, delete, or move hard-drive folders.

EDIT
Make terrific movies with less effort thanks to smart, automated options.

• Choose smart moviemaking options -- Create polished movies with no effort using creative techniques from Hollywood directors. Just choose a theme, and InstantMovie automatically finds your best clips, trims away bad footage, and edits the clips together with coordinated music, titles, effects, motion graphics, and credits. All-new themes are included, and you can easily customize to achieve the results you envision. Let Smart Albums do the work of finding clips that meet the criteria most important to you, so you can quickly start making the movie you have in mind.
• Edit with ease -- Create your story quickly in the Sceneline, an easier alternative to the more traditional video-editing Timeline. Make a movie by simply dragging and dropping thumbnails of your clips, transitions, and effects. Edit and view your movie in one convenient place - the Monitor window - where you can easily trim and split clips, drop filters and effects right on a frame, create fun picture-in-picture effects, type titles and text right on the screen, and more. Preview your movie full screen as you work with just the click of a button.

ENHANCE
Enhance your stories with fun, stylish motion graphics, effects, transitions, themes, titles, and disc menus.

• Customize with TV-style effects and transitions -- Impress your audience with dazzling effects. Add visual interest with eye-catching transitions enhanced. Tie it all together with a theme. Have fun with graphics that follow the motion. Add visual pop exactly where you want it. Enliven the action with artwork and animations. Get creative with stop-motion animation. Try your hand at animation. Use stop-motion video capture to animate an action figure, create a time-lapse movie of a sunset, and more. Enhance photo slide shows.
• Sound your best -- Use background music and sound effects to underscore emotions, add emphasis, or create a mood. The 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.
• Add professional-quality menus and text -- Design custom disc menus from scratch, or choose from dozens of Hollywood-style motion menu templates. Type in text and drag and drop to add your own video clips, images, and audio. Add a scene index for easy navigation. Take advantage of automatically created scene indexes or chapters for your menu with links that correspond to your video clips. Animate titles to fit your movie's personality. Add polished credits. Roll credits in more than 100 professionally designed templates.
• Be in complete control -- Ready to take the next step in editing? Create your movie in the Timeline, which lets you work with up to 99 audio and video tracks for sophisticated results. Now you can easily copy and paste transitions from one part of the Timeline to another, replace a clip while retaining the effects and attributes of the original clip, and more.

SHARE
Share your movies with family and friends via DVD, Blu-ray Disc, mobile devices, YouTube, and more.

• Share on DVD, Blu-ray Disc, the web, and devices -- Share your memories in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of new animated templates that let you showcase videos and photos together. Adobe Flash technology lets viewers have fun interacting with your movies.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• 2GHz processor with SSE2 support; 3GHz processor required for HDV or Blu-ray; dual-core processor required for AVCHD
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2, Windows Media Center, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
• For Windows XP: 512MB of RAM (2GB required for HD editing, including HDV, AVCHD, or Blu-ray)
• For Windows Vista and Windows 7: 1GB of RAM (2GB required for HD editing, including HDV, AVCHD, 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 DV or HDV camcorder, or a USB2 interface to connect a DV-via-USB compatible DV camcorder (other video devices supported via the Media Downloader)
• QuickTime 7 software

Adobe Premiere Elements supported import/export formats include:

ASF (import only), AVI, AVCHD (import only), SWF (import only), Blu-ray Disc (export only), DV, DVD, Dolby Digital Stereo, H.264, HDV, JPEG, PNG (import only), PSD (import only), MOD and TOD (JVC Everio, import only), MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MP3, WAV, QuickTime, Windows Media, WMA (import only), 3GP.

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

Product information is advisory only. Specifications and compatibility should be checked with the manufacturer before order. Images are for illustrative purposes only.