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Adobe Premier Elements- multiple audio and video tracks, can make very nice movies from multiple scenes and audio tracks. As mentioned, it is a huge resource hog and got many lockups when doing final exports of large movies on newer dual-core machines, but is pro-level video software when used on a dedicated machine.
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Pain as it is, Premier is the most sophisticated.



before I bought Adobe Premiere Elements, I did a lot of research. It really DOES have capability that other programs don't have. For example, I wanted the ability to put thought bubbles above the heads of animated characters. Easy to do in stills, not so easy to maintain the thought bubble through a range of frames. Adobe is the only one I found that could do that. But HOW to do it is not in the manual. And I couldn't find it in the help. (it may be there, but searching for "thought bubble" didn't yield any hits)


I had to go to their forum to search the posts to find out how to do it. The procedure is complicated, and I would never have intuitively figured it out without instructions. In fact, things that are simple to do in windows movie maker seem complicated and unintuitive to me in Adobe Premiere Elements.

I got lockups on short video clips recorded from my daughter's phone, even though my computer exceeds the minimum requirements for running the soiftware

I emailed the company with questions, complaints and finally a request for my money back, but they never responded to any of them.

I wanted to install it on my music computer, but it requires an internet connection to validate it... so I had to install it on a computer that was not my first choice.

But at least with Adobe you get what the box says. If you read the fine print on many of the other products, core features described in the ad copy are only available of you pay extra for add-in software

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