needs. Once you delete unwanted footage, the timeline will automatically resize everything for you. If you want to save your project, you can easily transfer the work to another PC or archive it for future editing.

Hundreds of special effects are at your fingertips to let you customize and add sparkle and personality to your movie. And if you're unsure what an effect will look like, the sneak preview function will let you view the effect before you apply it. Special transitions like fades, dissolves and wipes--or even your own customized transitions--can make moving from scene to scene seamless. Add text and moving graphics, or even use TV-style effects to add more unique elements to your movie. Choose from professional Adobe fonts designed just for video and add shadows, glows, and other effects. It also features over 100 professionally-designed templates for credits. Make your own soundtrack in Dolby Digital stereo with up to 99 audio tracks that you can edit with precise waveform controls. If you're unsure where to start, the program features how-to guides, and the Adobe website offers free tutorials and hints to help you get your project going.

Once your movie is ready, you can create personalized DVD menus from dozens of templates or ones you've designed yourself. Choose from moving backgrounds, buttons, text, and more. You can automatically create scene indexes or chapters to link to specific parts of you video--just like professional movies. Burning DVDs requires just a few simple clicks. Or, you can save to VHS or other formats for handhelds, cell phones, the Web, and more. You can also view your movie in a traditional TV format (4:3) or in widescreen (16:9). Convert to NTSC or PAL in a single slick.

New features in Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0:

• Grab from virtually any media device

• Build dynamic, personalized DVD menus

• Work in a custom editing studio

• Transfer videos to and play on portable video players

• Sneak-preview effects

• Save work in progress

• Choose from hundreds of special effects

• New Properties panel lets you view filters and effects applied to each frame

• Enjoy rich Dolby Digital sound

• Burn DVDS in a few easy clicks

Product Description
Presenting Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0. with everything you need to create videos that thrill your friends and family. The perfect combination of superior control, ease of use, and reliability, Premiere Elements automates tedious tasks so you can be creative more quickly. Import video clips from all of your digital video devices, then experiment with hundreds of professional transitions and effects to grab your audience. Burn your videos to DVD, complete with custom menus for that personal touch, or transfer them to your portable video players to wow your audience anytime, anywhere. Try anything! With Auto Save, multiple undos, and the History panel, you can always go back to a previous version Create a rich, full soundtrack for your video with Dolby® Digital stereo, up to 99 audio tracks, and precise waveform controls Edit as fast as you can with support for multiple processors, advanced multi-threading technology, and Hyper-Threading Technology on the latest Intel Pentium based Windows XP systems Built-in coaching Focus on telling your story with a flexible workspace that automatically resizes and adjusts to your needs?no more clicking around to open and close panels Roll credits in more than 100 professionally designed templates Works with Windows XP Professional, Home Edition, or Media Center Edition with Service Pack 2

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Product Reviews:

   
Premiere Elements 2.0 is a Qualified Success!, October 24, 2005
Reviewer: Robert Cozzi

Premiere Elements 2.0 is pretty good and easy to use. While Pinnacle Studio 9 is a bit easier to use, Premiere 2.0 does seem much more reliable that Studio.

The good is that you can output both Windows and Mac in addition to DVD format video, whereas with the Apple packages, such as iMovie or even Final Cut Express you're limited to Quicktime and non-Windows formats.

Editing was relatively easy, yet still has a small learning curve; the should scale the items on the screen a bit better but if you have good eyes (and I don't!) you can find just about everything at your finger tips.

About the only complaint I have is that the output quality is not as good as Final Cut Express. For some reason the resulting DVD image I created was less resolution than the original/source video which was a VOB file of an old 8mm Wedding film. Not sure why that happened but it did.

Also the helptext gets an average rating from me. While some information is right there, easy to get at, other stuff isn't in the help or is worded a bit too obscure.

Titling is about the only thing that Pinnacle does better. Premiere's is okay, but many of the checkboxes seem to work backwards. For example the "Start off Screen" for a rolling title caused the title to start on screen and roll off screen, whereas Start On Screen had the opposite affect. So trial and error comes into play.
All in all, if you're a Windows User, I would recommend it, if you're a Mac user (I use both) I would use iMovie which normally comes with your Mac or iLife package.

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