Adobe Premiere Elements 2019
Organize, edit, and share your clips
$69.99 From Adobe Systems, Inc., adobe.com Needs macOS 10.12 or later
Devices like the iPhone enable us to capture both video and stills. As a result, we have the challenge of managing, processing, and sharing these assets. Enter Premiere Elements, a video editor that’s integrated into the Photoshop Elements Organizer. If you’re familiar with working with images in Photoshop Elements, but are new to video editing, then Premiere Elements will slot into your workflow nicely. Better still, if you prefer to organize your clips and stills in Apple’s Photos app then Premiere Elements can link directly to them, so you don’t have to use the Elements Organizer. Shooting on an iPhone 7 or above also sees Premiere Elements 2019 work with HEVC files that use H.265 compression, taking up less storage. When you launch the Elements Organizer a splash screen will let you jump into editing photos or video. Click on the Video Editor link and you’ll launch Premiere Elements, an app designed to let you trim down raw footage into short shareable sequences, fix problems with color and tone, and add other bells and whistles such as titles and transitions.
Premiere Elements looks comfortably similar to Photoshop Elements, so turning raw footage into something more polished is relatively straightforward. Like Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements has multiple workspaces designed to suit the needs and experience of the user. The Quick workspace provides basic video editing tools such as the timeline (or Sceneline). It also boasts a Smart Trim tool designed to automatically analyze your raw footage for properties such as faces, groups, action, and areas in focus. In theory it should trim your clips to show the best bits, though in practice it struggled to select anything useful in our test batch. At least it’s a simple job to trim clips manually.
The Guided option takes you through the step–by–step process of importing clips into the Expert workspace, adding them to the timeline, trimming and splitting clips, and inserting transitions. You can also be guided to produce a wide range of creative results, which introduce you to more advanced post– production tools and effects pros like to use.
If you’re a video editing novice then you can try exploring the Auto Creations feature that creates video collages automatically from Elements Organizer’s contents. After launching Premiere Elements check out the Home Screen for a thumbnail displaying auto–generated content. These collages may not contain the best clips but they’re a good springboard to creativity. You can add new media to customize a video collage, trim clips and swap the position of clips in the collage.
the bottom line. An easy way for novice video makers to perform basic non–linear editing tasks, developing their skills at a steady pace. George Cairns