You have to go through the menu to get to this setting, while other apps have simple buttons.
Another action I wish were easier is restricting the gallery to a certain media type-video, photo, or audio. It's also something that seems eminently desirable for hobbyists and YouTubers. This is especially baffling because Adobe has its own repository, Adobe Stock. One area where Premiere Elements is falling behind some of the competition like CyberLink PowerDirector and Wondershare Filmora is that it doesn't offer any stock media for its users. The program did find and identify objects in my videos (even faces), but the People view didn't offer any face tagging from my video clips, which were rife with smiles. Automatic object tagging and people tagging works with video content as well. You can combine search types, looking up, for example, pictures of Joe Smith taken in New York City in September. A set of buttons appears along the left edge, letting you filter your search by automatic AI-generated Smart Tags, People, Places, Dates, Keywords, Albums, Folders, Media Types, and Star Ratings. The Organizer shows off its chops when you tap the Search magnifying glass icon in the top window border. Candid Moments, which picks the best still images from your video clips Smart Trim, which cuts out boring video sections Freeze Frame motion titles and Animated GIF creation round the highlights in recent versions. Other recent additions include Auto Creations and a Home window for quick access to your projects and tutorials. The 2020 version introduced some nifty tools, too, such as Video Noise Reduction, Auto-Tagging, and two Guided Edits: Time Lapse and Sky Replacement. The 2021 version added impressive mask selection tool with motion tracking along with editing speedup with GPU acceleration, 21 new background music tracks, and two new Guided Edits: Double Exposure, and Animated Mattes. This new option lets you shrink the file size of your exported video, showing exactly how big the file will be-handy for destinations with file-size limits.
Just select some photos or videos and the Organizer creates a slideshow without even taking you to the main video editing interface, complete with background music.Ĭompress Video Output. Found in the Organizer module, these include new modern overlay styles, such as the Geometric and Frames templates. Long a staple of digital photo editing (especially when using raw image formats) highlight and shadow adjustment is just as important with video footage when you want to get the lighting right. Add birds, butterflies, hearts, smilies, stars, smoke, and more around your main video subject. The format choices come with appropriately sized titles and backgrounds for the project format.Īnimated Overlays. A new project startup window lets you choose from among popular social media formats. It's useful, for example, if you shot a video in widescreen but want to post it as an Instagram square. The tool analyzes your video clip to determine the subject or what's important and then crops your media to fit an aspect ratio it wasn’t originally shot in.
This feature made it into Premiere Pro in 2019.
A free trial gets you 30 days of full-featured program use, but any videos made with the trial are stamped with a watermark.Īuto Reframe. If you're upgrading from a previous version, those prices drop to $119.99 and $79.99, respectively. Note that Premiere Elements is not a part of Adobe Creative Cloud service. These are one-time fees-no subscription needed. You can get Premiere Elements bundled with Photoshop Elements for $149.99 or as a standalone app for $99.99. The program trails Editors' Choice winner CyberLink PowerDirector in the breadth of effects, rendering speed, and formats it supports, however. As well as being extremely easy to use, it lets you go fairly deep with multitrack and keyframe-based editing-or you can ignore all that and use its more-automated tools.
But really, anyone who wants to create compelling videos without tackling a complex professional application like Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro can take advantage of Premiere Elements.
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