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Premiere Elements 4 (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Adobe Systems Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: £78.02
Buy New: £56.82
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Rating:  12 reviews
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
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
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 2 to 4 weeks
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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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 70 for a bug ridden unsupported piece of junk October 19, 2007
M. Woods (Wales)
84 out of 86 found this review helpful
This was delivered today. I loaded it to my pc, everything was ok until I tried to burn my small test project to DVD - it crashed. I tried to export the project to PC, it crashed again. I installed it on my laptop - it crashed. I tried to get onto their support site and got stuck in an endless loop. I surfed the net and found a review that said that adobe had rushed this release even though it still has loads of bugs already been highlighted by beta testers. 70 down the drain! It got one star cos you can't submit a review without a rating.
Bug ridden. November 19, 2007
O. STRONG
41 out of 43 found this review helpful
I tried this programme out on brand new Vista Intel Duo Core machine with much more power than Adobe says this programme requires.
The programme is superb....
at least it would be if it wasn't bug ridden.
It stalls literally every 5 mins, which involves having to hang around for ages waiting for it to come back to life.
And then it crashes literally every 10 minutes if you're lucky and sometimes every 2 minutes.
This product is naff - and since buying it reviews I've read online also mention it's instability. (Next time I'll read the review beforehand) Adobe shouldn't have released it without debugging it properly. Such a shame as it has fantastic features if only it worked.
Buyer beware. This could be the most frustrating programme you'll ever purchase. It has been for me
 ELEMENTS 4 January 24, 2008
G. Wade (England)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I read with interest the previous two reviews of this product and was quite surprised. I have nothing but praise for it, it has never crashed and it has done everything I have asked of it, apart from auto scene detect HDV footage. I made a short 20 minute DV film with Elements 4 including transitions and some video effects, I burnt it to DVD without any problems and the quality was as good as Premiere 6.0 and a Pinnacle DV500. I have made a very short film and uploaded it to youtube without any problems. I have even made a short sample film of HDV footage and burnt this to an ordinary DVD and the quality was very impressive. I am using a Gigabyte mobo with an Intel chipset, 3.0Ghz P4 CPU, XP home and 2.0 gb of RAM, in my experience of video editing it is essential to get the mobo right especially the chipset, hope this helps anyone who is thinking of buying this software.
Really awful software June 12, 2008
NutShell (Hong Kong)
9 out of 9 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.
Great package and try-before-buy available February 21, 2008
Simon Draper (UK)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
While good to get you going, the photo and video packages often bundled with PCs etc really don't give you anything advanced and easy to use (I mean the budget editions that usually cost about 25 to buy separately).
So after deciding that I no way need the mega-functionality of professional packages (even if I could afford splashing out several hundred pounds!) I looked into reviews from a number of different sources on a couple of mid-range packages but the only way to really know is to try one out first before buying.
Adobe have a try-before-buy scheme for stuff like this on their website (the Pro versions and the Elements versions of PhotoShop and Premier are available) although the file downloads are naturally very big. It was after trying these that made me buy the Premier Elements 4.0 and Photoshop 6.0 bundle.
I spent pretty much a whole weekend with the trial version (which is fully featured with a 30day timeout) editing holiday photos and video clips trying out various features - they're really quite intuitive to use and (so far) I haven't had any of the crashes that others have experienced so for me it gets a thumbs up.
Surprisingly, ordering from Amazon was a couple of pounds cheaper than buying the unlock codes direct from Adobe and also gets you the installation DVD and manuals. Note though that you have to uninstall the downloaded time-limited version and then reinstall from the disk as the licence codes with the disk won't unlock the downloaded time-limited version.
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