All About Adobe® Premiere® Elements 4

Create and share great-looking movies in minutes with Adobe Premiere Elements 4—the newest version of the best-selling consumer video-editing software. Get started quickly with all your video clips and photos at your fingertips and a choice of easy options for transforming them into polished movies. Show your personal style with amazing visual effects, rich audio, and interactive menus. Adobe Premiere Elements offers a variety of options for easily sharing movies. Upload directly to YouTube or your personal sharing site, burn to DVD or Blu-ray Disc, or share on mobile phones and other devices.

Jump-start your editing with Movie Themes—Turn a sequence of scenes into a polished movie in just a few clicks. Choose from event-based themes Wedding and Birthday or style-based themes such as Silent Film and Music Video. Adobe Premiere Elements automatically applies coordinated transitions, music, and professionally designed layouts for titles, credits, and disc menus. Apply themes to entire projects or just the portions you specify.

Burn your movie to disc in a few simple steps—Go from camera to DVD or Blu-ray disc, complete with menu and scene index, in a few easy steps.

Orient yourself quickly—Take advantage of a clean, easy-to-use workspace that helps you avoid a learning curve and create great movies in a snap.

Make movies with drag-and-drop ease—Create your story fast in the enhanced Sceneline, an easier alternative to the video-editing Timeline, where you can make a movie by simply dragging and dropping thumbnails of your clips, transitions, and effects. Practical new options, like the ability to copy and paste thumbnails, make it even easier to use.

Edit with more control in the Timeline—Ready to take the next step in editing? Create your movie in the Timeline, which lets you visualize the starting and ending point of each event so you can more easily synchronize multiple events. Access up to 99 audio and video tracks for sophisticated results.

Edit and preview in one convenient place—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.

Work at professional speed—Edit as fast as you can with support for dual-core or multiple processor systems, advanced multi-threading technology, and Hyper-Threading Technology on the latest Intel® Pentium® based Windows XP or Windows Vista systems.

• Organizer with visual tagging

• Movie Themes

• Sharing Center

• Web sharing on YouTube or personal website

• HD support, including Blu-ray Disc

• Sophisticated title animation

• Easy audio mixing and refinement

• Interactive menus

• Edit to the beat

New in version 4

Enhanced in version 4

Rescue shaky footage—Did a shaky camera ruin otherwise great footage? Restore it with the new Image Stabilizer filter.

Find a specific part of the action fast—Locate individual scenes in a snap, regardless of type of video. Adobe Premiere Elements automatically splits footage into individual scenes and displays them as thumbnails in the Sceneline or Timeline, so you can quickly go to a specific place in the action.

Find scenes based on when they were shot—Opt to have the time and date your video was taken automatically applied to each file's naming structure, helping ensure you can find what you need later with a quick search in the Organizer.

Edit to the beat of a favorite song—Easily create entertaining slide shows and movies that move to the music. Adobe Premiere Elements automatically detects the tempo of your musical soundtrack and syncs the beginning and end of each scene with the beats.

Customize your movie with an interactive disc menu—Easily personalize your disc menus. Start with professionally designed menu templates and then type in text and drag and drop to add your own video clips, images, and audio.

Animate titles to fit your movie's personality—Choose from a set of world-class Adobe fonts designed to look great on video and customize them with shadows, glows, and other effects. Then animate your titles to make them bounce, spin, or zoom across your scenes.

Impress your audience with dazzling effects—Choose from hundreds of amazing special effects that you can customize and use again. Adobe Premiere Elements 4 includes 10 new effects, including Old Film, Airbrush, and Earthquake.

Browse and apply effects with greater ease—Experimenting with effects has never been easier. Browse effects by visual thumbnails, drag and drop to apply them to your video, and then modify them using easy slider controls.

Easily change backgrounds with blue/green screen keying—Put your subject in a different setting by using the Blue/Green Screen effect to replace the background. Now, Adobe Premiere Elements can automatically detect clips with blue or green screen backgrounds and remove the background with exceptional results.

Add visual interest with eye-catching transitions—Creatively move from one scene to the next with hundreds of transitions, including over 20 new transitions like 3D Explosions, 3D Transformations, Art Blends, and Motion Blends. Even create your own.

Add the finishing touch with a menu and scene index—Design custom disc menus from scratch, or choose from dozens of menu templates. Adobe Premiere Elements 4 automatically creates scene indexes or chapters for your menu with links that correspond to your video clips.

Share on the go—Show your finished movies on virtually any mobile device—including Apple iPods, Sony PSP™ (PlayStation® Portable) systems, and mobile phones, including the new Apple iPhone. Select from new export presets for many popular phone models.

Share movies in HD for the highest quality—Take advantage of the latest technology and enjoy your movies in high definition, including on Blu-ray Disc.

Burn to disc in a snap—Fit hours of video on a single- or dual-layer DVD or Blu-ray disc that's optimized for best results.

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• Intel® Pentium® 4 or Celeron™ 1.3GHz (or compatible) processor; Pentium 4.3 GHz processor required for HD or Blu-ray

• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista™

• For Windows XP: 512MB of RAM (1GB required for HD or Blu-ray)

• For Windows Vista: 1GB of RAM (2GB required for HD 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 or DV camcorder, or a USB2 interface to connect a DV-via-USB-compatible DV camcorder (other video devices supported via the Media Downloader)

$99.99 (U.S.)

September 2007

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

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

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