Effortlessly create incredible movies

Product Information

With Adobe Premiere Elements 8 software, making incredible movies is easier than ever. Enhance your stories with professional style. Share virtually anywhere. And easily manage and protect all your video clips and photos.  Now you can add thought bubbles and other graphics, text, and effects that automatically move with the subjects in your movie.  Easily bring all your video clips and photos together in one convenient place, and then dive into a full range of creative activities and share virtually everywhere. 

• Automated moviemaking options
• Professional-quality effects and sound
• Automated online backup and more

Product Highlights

• Organize - Easily find, view, and protect your video clips and photos in a powerful and convenient media management hub.
• Edit - Make terrific movies with less effort thanks to smart, automated options.
• Enhance - Enhance your stories with fun, stylish motion graphics, effects, transitions, themes, titles, and disc menus.
• Share - Share your movies with family and friends via DVD, Blu-ray Disc, mobile devices, YouTube, and more

Product Features

New! Have fun with graphics that follow the motion
Want to add funny thought bubbles or goofy hats above people's heads? Use new motion tracking capabilities to add graphics, text, and effects that automatically move with the subjects in your scenes.

New! Manage and protect all your clips and photos from one convenient place
Bring all your video clips and photos together in the powerful, easy-to-use, fully featured new Organizer - the hub of your video and photo experience. Now it's easier than ever to find, view, and protect all your photos and video clips, and you can even view video clips full screen. Then dive in to a full range of creative activities and start enjoying your memories.

New! Save time with new automated options
Make movies with less effort. Adobe Premiere Elements software can automatically fix shaky footage and color and lighting problems, trim away all but your best footage, and balance audio elements to give you professional-quality sound throughout your movie.

New! Enliven the action with artwork and animations
Add sparkle to your scenes thanks to an all-new library of artwork, including fun frames, objects, and animations.

New! Get the big picture
Get the full effect of your video clips and photos from within the Organizer with new full-screen previews.

New! Add visual pop exactly where you want it
Delight your audience with a touch of movie magic - blur faces, add cartoon heads, and more. Now you can apply any 2D video effect to a specific area of a scene and keep it locked on the action with motion tracking.

New! See the same video clips and photos on every computer
Forget trying to manually maintain your clips and photos across multiple computers. With automatic syncing, media added or edited on one computer will automatically be synced to another.1

New! Share memories in fresh, exciting ways on the web
Showcase your videos in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of dynamic, animated templates. Adobe Flash technology lets viewers interact with your videos for an entertaining experience. And share via public or private galleries - friends and family won't have to register to look.2 (Get more with Plus.)

Enhanced! Create a polished movie instantly
Use creative editing techniques from Hollywood directors. InstantMovie automatically edits together your best clips with coordinated music, titles, effects, and transitions from the movie theme of your choice. All-new themes are included, and you can easily customize to achieve the results you envision.

New! Enjoy support for Windows 8
Take advantage of support for the new Windows 8 platform and the hands-on capabilities of Windows Touch technology.


1 Available in the United States only. Internet connection required.

2 Available in the United States only. Internet connection required.

 

Windows Requirements

• Windows XP with Service Pack 2, Windows Media Center, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
• 2 GHz processor with SSE2 support; 3 GHz processor required for HDV or Blu-ray; dual-core processor required for AVCHD
• For Windows XP: 512 MB of RAM (2 GB required for HD editing, including HDV, AVCHD, or Blu-ray)
• For Windows Vista and Windows 7: 1 GB of RAM (2 GB required for HD editing, including HDV, AVCHD, or Blu-ray)
• 4.5 GB of available Hard Disk space
• Color monitor with 16-bit color Video Card
• 1,024 x 768 monitor resolution at 96dpi or less
• Microsoft DirectX 9 or 10 compatible sound and display driver
• DVD-ROM drive (compatible DVD burner required to burn DVDs; compatible Blu-ray burner required to burn Blu-ray discs)
• DV/i.LINK/FireWire/IEEE 1394 interface to connect a Digital 8 DV or HDV camcorder, or a USB2 interface to connect a DV-via-USB compatible DV camcorder (other video devices supported via the Media Downloader)
• QuickTime 7 software

Adobe Premiere Elements supported import/export formats include:

ASF (import only), AVI, AVCHD (import only), SWF (import only), Blu-ray Disc (export only), DV, DVD, Dolby Digital Stereo, H.264, HDV, JPEG, PNG (import only), PSD (import only), MOD and TOD (JVC Everio, import only), MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MP3, WAV, QuickTime, Windows Media, WMA (import only), and 3GP.

Import/export of some formats, including AVCHD, DVD, Blu-ray, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and H.264, may require activation or download of components via an Internet connection. Activation or download is fast, easy, and free. Import/export of 3GP, 3GP2, MOV, MPEG-4, and QuickTime requires QuickTime software.