The New Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 Is More Powerful and Easier to Use Than Ever Before

by Mark Shapiro

With a retail price of only $99.99, this is a great way to start using the power of Adobe Premiere without having to go through the learning curve associated with mastering the full program. Adobe Premiere Elements is sort of like "Premiere for Dummies".

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The new Adobe Premiere® Elements 3.0 software makes it easy to create, edit  and share videos and movies. The new version enables you to burn your footage to a DVD in just two simple steps, complete with a DVD menu and scene index, or to easily assemble your movie by rearranging clips with drag-and-drop simplicity. You can also easily share your movies on DVD, the web, mobile phones, and virtually anywhere else.

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What do you need? Premiere is for Windows users ---

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or Intel Celeron® 1.3GHz processor (or compatible processor with SSE2 support); dual-core processors and those with Hyper-Threading Technology supported; Pentium 4 3GHz processor required for HDV

• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional, Home Edition, or Media Center Edition with Service Pack 2

• 512MB of RAM; 1GB required for HDV

• 4GB of available hard-disk space

• Color monitor with 16-bit color video card

• 1,024x768 monitor resolution

• Microsoft DirectX 9 compatible sound and display driver

• DVD-ROM drive (compatible DVD burner required to burn DVDs)

• DV/i.LINK/FireWire/IEEE 1394 interface to connect a Digital 8 or DV camcorder, or a USB2 interface to connect a DV-via-USB-compatible DV camcorder (other video devices supported via the Media Downloader)

So what's new?

Easily assemble your video clips in the Sceneline

Assemble your video faster in the Sceneline, a new alternative to the Timeline that lets you quickly drag and drop to rearrange thumbnails of your clips or add transitions and effects. It’s as easy as making a photo slide show.

Edit and preview in one convenient place—the Monitor window

The Monitor window enables you to trim and split clips, drop filters and effects on a frame and create cool looking picture-in-picture effects. For titling, you can now type text right on the screen and preview it full screen.

Premiere Elements lets you import video from almost anything and anywhere...

Import video from virtually any device, including HDV and DVD camcorders, web cameras (WDM analog), MPEG-4 video recorders, and mobile phones. Get sharp, beautiful results by capturing and editing native HDV footage.

Share on mobile phones and handheld devices

When you are done editing, you can play your finished movies on virtually any handheld device—including mobile phones, Apple iPods, and PSP™ (PlayStation® Portable) systems.

Have fun with stop-motion animation

Adobe makes animation easy. You can use the new Stop Motion Capture function to create your own time-lapse movies, claymations, and other animations.