#ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 5.0 PREMIERE MOVIE#
When working in the Edit Movie workspace, the Media Window offers a choice of four views which you toggle: one, for organising your various media files (video, audio, still images) a second for your audio and video effects and transitions a third offers an array of titling templates, and there's another "Get Media" menu, which appears to duplicate the job of the button at the top of the workspace.
An "internet" button leads off to the "Idea Gallery" on Adobe's web site with brief tutorials.Īdobe Premiere Elements 3.0 uses the now familiar stretchy interface, where all the windows readjust automatically to fill the screen, with a Media window that slides elegantly open and closed when you need it. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a way to save custom workspaces, although Premiere Elements does remember your last settings.Ī video camera icon at the top opens a drop down menu for importing media from DV or HDV cameras, devices like mobile phones and webcams through USB2.0 - and, for those who have the bundled version - Adobe Photoshop Elements.Ī second, clapper board button offers a drop-down menu for exporting to tape, DVD and a variety of file types including QuickTime, Windows Media, MPEG, Flash video, iPod, mobile 3GP, and PSP (as H.264 files). The two workspaces are easily customised by dragging and dropping your panels into place, for example, to make better use of two monitors if you have them. The Timeline window, where you lay out the clips, runs horizontally across the bottom, with a Monitor/preview window at the centre of the screen and in the default layout the Media panel and file properties window to the left and the right of this window. The slightly simplified interface now revolves around two tabbed workspaces positioned along the top to "Edit Movie" and "Create DVD." Canada ) or bundled with Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 (check prices at Amazon: US U.K.
#ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 5.0 PREMIERE SOFTWARE#
The software comes by itself (check prices at Amazon: US U.K. Adobe's consumer video editing package Premiere Elements 3.0 builds on the strengths of its previous version with an even less cluttered interface to make the workspace less intimidating for the casual editor and relatively sophisticated tools tucked away for those who want to spend more time manipulating their video.