Adobe Premiere Elements 8.0 is the latest release of the consumer-based video editing program from Adobe. It is a scaled down version of their professional level package Premiere Pro and it can be purchased as a bundle with Adobe Photoshop Elements for a significant savings.
Like Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements is a lot easier to work with and a lot more manageable than its big brother Premier Pro and while it has fewer features than Pro, the features it does have are more geared toward and will better serve the general consumer.
What do you need to run Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0?
• 2 GHz or faster Processor with SSE2 support.
• 3 GHz processor for HDV or Blu-ray.
• Dual-core processor for AVCHD.
• Windows XP with SP2 or SP3, Windows Media Center, Vista, or Windows 7
• 1 GB Ram (2 GB for HD editing)
• 4.5 GB hard drive space
• Color monitor with 16-bit color video card
• 1024 x 768 monitor resolution at 96 DPI
• DirectX 9 compatible display driver
• DVD-ROM drive (or other compatible drives for Blu-ray, etc.)
• Internet Explorer 6-8 or Firefox 1.5-3.x.
• DV/i.LINK/FireWire/IEEE 1394 interface to connect a Digital 8 DV or HDV camcorder, or a USB 2.0 interface to connect a DV-via-USB compatible DV camcorder (other video devices supported via the Media Downloader)
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Article comments
1 - JEFF J
Adobe Photoshop has always been the standard in the industry, so I was taken aback when I bought Premiere Elements.
It’s a total flop. When it does start, it has a nice layout and nice features, but there is the small detail that it NEVER STARTS. It freezes at the welcome screen, and only starts in one in twenty tries. I must add that I installed it on a new PC. Adobe should issue a recall if they want to preserve their good name, rather than become the BP of the software industry. Read the comments on their own site.