Adobe Premiere Elements 4

(4 out of 5)

MSRP: $99.99

Adobe hits another high note with its consumer-targeted video-editing software.

Adobe has made its name among professionals and prosumers as the gold standard in multimedia production and manipulation, both online and off. For the basic consumer market, Adobe has its Elements line, which are lower-cost versions of its traditional powerhouses, Photoshop and Premiere. Fortunately, in the case of Premiere Elements 4, Adobe took the functionality and useful features of Premiere Pro, such as the timeline and straightforward editing capability, and brought it to this easy-to-use application. Design Installing Premiere Elements 4 took about 7 minutes. Upon opening the program, we were greeted with a welcome screen that required us to start a new project, open an existing one, capture video, change preset settings or exit the program entirely. There is nothing you can click other than these options. Because we’re big fans of multitasking, this proved to be a nuisance. Premiere Elements opens in full-screen on top of the Windows taskbar and cannot be moved until making a selection in the welcome screen. If you’re in the middle of something else, such as reading an e-mail, when you start up Premiere Elements, the program’s welcome screen and backdrop take precedence over everything else and force you to deal with it. We don’t mind the program opening full-screen, but we wish it didn’t hide the taskbar, too.

Read Full Review @ LaptopMag.com by Meghan J. Clark