Software Review: Adobe Premiere Elements 4 - Comments Page 2

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• 26 - Bob Lawrence

  Jun 10, 2008 at 5:34 pm

  I like Adobe Premiere Elements 3 and will eventually get used to 4, but I have a strange problem. I use a Panasonic AG DVC20 and have no problems with either capturing or editing video on my Dell at home. But at work, on a new Dell (which is on a network), my device controls are either severely limited or non functional. I can capture video, but I have to use the controls on the camera to stop capture. We've tried a new FireWire card, a different cable, changed ports...nothing seems to cure the problem. Any thoughts?

• 27 - Mike

  Jun 22, 2008 at 9:34 am

  I've given up on Adobe products, this as well as the new version of Elements 6 is so full of bugs it is like they released an Alpha test version of both instead of a stable program. I must say unless Adobe fixes these releases free of chrge to us who have purchsed them I will not be buying any Adobe products again.

• 28 - Lyle Pryor

  Jul 24, 2008 at 10:10 pm

  Same ole same ole, this program sucks. Started working fine then crashed on my old computer. So I upgraded still using xp...still crashes either on a playback of the edited product or when trying to burn to disk... c'mon adobe time to front up with some fixes. Youve taken our money how about some customer support.

• 29 - junk

  Jul 26, 2008 at 1:02 pm

  CRASH CRASH CRASH is what this program does when your burn a dvd

• 30 - Robert Scanlon

  Aug 09, 2008 at 12:18 am

  I have to agree - I also have a new-ish top line Dell running Vista Ultimate (been and XP user for years and loved it - Vista is nicer once you get past the nanny controls. Does need a grunty machine).
  
  I hate Adobe Premeiere Elements 4 - it crashes all the time, the interface is so UN-intuitive it's ridiculous. Any recommendations? I'm thinking of upgrading to Sony Vegas Pro.

• 31 - Megamaniac

  Nov 14, 2008 at 8:42 pm

  Have it and I simply love it. It's a good product for non profesionals as I do, the editing is simple and just found out that it's pretty intuitive while compared with other adobe products I have used before, so I'm really glad I have made a good choice for me. Never had any problem while exporting, but I haven't tried to burn discs, the youtube tool is cool but the first time I tried it it was weirdly bugged, it didn't connect to youtube server, but after a reformat and reinstall I found out that could use it normally.
  
  The only complain I have about it is that it doesn't recognize my camcorder, so I can't import video from it that isn't in the flash memory.

• 32 - Video Burner

  Nov 22, 2008 at 3:15 pm

  I have been making DVD's for 9 years. I have a Quad processor computer running Vista. Adobe Premiere Elements 4 is the most buggy software I have ever used. Very unstable and prone to crashes. This software is garbage. Since owning it, Adobe has not come out with one patch.
  
  This software is very media fussy too. Will only burn to +R media. It is crap!!!!!!

• 33 - Jocelyn

  Jan 03, 2009 at 4:30 pm

  This product is good in some ways, and very bad in others. I like how easy it is to edit videos, but that assumes that I can open the program. Most the time I try to open it the program crashes, and automatically re-starts my computer. Also, the features besides editing video length and such; such as adding titles and credits are very difficult to use.

• 34 - travis

  Feb 08, 2009 at 3:32 pm

  i wish i hadn't bought premiere elements. it's pretty much useless for even minor editing on my machine. i tried out vegas movie studio on the same machine, and it hummed right along with no problem. i feel like i got ripped off.

• 35 - Robin Houlston

  Apr 20, 2009 at 5:58 pm

  I am currently running Adobe Premiere Elements 4 and would like to share some issues I have had.
  1. When creating editing a project the object module can get corrupted if I click the cursor before it has finished the current operation. I have had a case where it got so corropted it would not even load. Running the repair option for re-installation solved the problem. It seems to run ok provided it is allowed to finish the current task.
  2. when it is creating files for burning to disk it is necessary to disable all user programs including even screen savers otherwise a "transcoding error" will result.
  3. When it gets around the pysically burning to disk it works ok with DVD-RW discs but not with DVD-R. "Uknown Error" results with the latter. Perhaps it has something to do with the write speed since DVD-R are much faster. I have found it better to write to a file using say the 4.7GB option when selecting the burn target and then burning the file created with NERO. This works ok.
  
  If anyone has comments or advice about this I would be interested in knowing.

• 36 - FLETCH

  May 27, 2009 at 10:21 am

  I RECIEVED ADOBE ELEMENTS4 FREE WITH MY SANYO XACTI CAM CORDER .
  I HAVE BRAND NEW PC RUNNING VISTA .
  I HAVE NEVER HAD SO MUCH TROUBLE IN MY LIFE ,IF I HAD ANY HAIR I WOULD HAVE PULLED IT ALL OUT BY NOW.
  TOTALLY UNUSABLE . ANYTHING I TRY TO DO ON IT , I GET A MESSAGE (PROGRAMME HAS STOPPED WORKING)WINDOWS NEVER FINDS A SOLUTION.LONGEST IT HAS RUN FOR IS 20 MINUTES ( NORMALLY 5 IS GOOD )
  I RE INSTALLED IT 3 TIMES AND CHECKED FOR UP DATES AND STILL RUBBISH , SO GLAD I FOUND THIS SITE . I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME DOING SOMETHING STUPID .
  CAN ANYONE RECCOMEND A GOOD ALTERNATIVE
  

• 37 - M DuBois

  Jun 16, 2009 at 3:22 pm

  #11 Jay Fisher says it best!!
  
  I need not add anything else.

• 38 - CarolWeb

  Jul 13, 2009 at 5:48 pm

  Now I know why Adobe Elements was free with my Dell.
  
  I just wasted 4 hours on a project in which all the audio and transitions disappeared after it froze up and crashed. I hate it too.