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Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 and Premiere Elements

post #1 of 7
3/29/05 at 10:27am
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I am getting started in editing and organizing home videos and photos using Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 and Premiere Elements. Adobe web site states only 256MB RAM is needed to run run of the programs and 512MB to run both simultaneously.

Currently, I have a P4 1.8GHz with Win XP Pro SP1, 512MB DDR RAM (PC 1600/2100 200/266), extra 60GB HD space, 64MB video card.

I see alot of people saying that they need 1GB RAM for video editing but I assume that is for professional editing.

Is this Adobe Premiere Elements going to crawl? Do I need to upgrade anything to enjoy this new hobby?
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post #2 of 7
4/2/05 at 6:34pm

Not a problem

You should be able to run ok under those specs. I don't know about running both at the same time, though. You'll just have to try it out. They are scaled-down versions so you may not have a problem.

I used to do Premiere 6.5 editing on a similar system. The only real dragging problems were precessing tany applied effects to the video. Your CPU speed really makes the difference there, but it takes time no matter how fast the CPU. I would get it going and walk away to let it do it's stuff.
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post #3 of 7
4/2/05 at 6:35pm
"precessing tany" should be "processing any"...guess I should check b4 posting!
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post #4 of 7
6/14/05 at 4:13am

to gi tom

hello,

i just purchased these products but haven't used them yet. i was wondering how you like premier elements to edit video and if you have purchased a book for the software?

thanks
indera
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post #5 of 7
6/14/05 at 4:41pm
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Originally Posted by GI Tom
I am getting started in editing and organizing home videos and photos using Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 and Premiere Elements. Adobe web site states only 256MB RAM is needed to run run of the programs and 512MB to run both simultaneously.

Currently, I have a P4 1.8GHz with Win XP Pro SP1, 512MB DDR RAM (PC 1600/2100 200/266), extra 60GB HD space, 64MB video card.

I see alot of people saying that they need 1GB RAM for video editing but I assume that is for professional editing.

Is this Adobe Premiere Elements going to crawl? Do I need to upgrade anything to enjoy this new hobby?
Shouldn't be a problem. I use them on my AMD XP-2000 (Sempron) with 512mb of RAM, though I don't use them together at the same time. I think cpu speed and RAM will make the most difference in your experience, but what you have should work fine.

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Originally Posted by indera
hello,

i just purchased these products but haven't used them yet. i was wondering how you like premier elements to edit video and if you have purchased a book for the software?

thanks
indera
If you haven't used any other video editors, then learning this will be just as easy/hard as any of the others. If you already know a particular video editing package, you'll have to re-learn a few of the commands. I started on Movie Maker2 (still use it a lot), and Premiere Elements (PE) does a few of the basic things differently. For example, I think most video editors take your raw footage and "virtually" break it into scenes, meaning they use software pointers within the file to identify where the scene breaks should be. The original input remains as one large file. However, PE physically breaks the file into smaller files based on scene detection when the footage is originally captured. If I try to import the original large AVI file into PE, I get one large file to work with. There's no way that I've found to automagically break that into scenes once the file has been captured. I consider it a bug, but Adobe (and the people on their forum) seem to like it that way, so maybe I'm just not a savvy user.
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post #6 of 7
6/24/05 at 2:11pm
hi rfortson,

i plan to install both products today. i was scanning through the book that comes with premiere elements and i think when you capture the video you have the option to bring it in as one huge file or as scenes based on when the stop recoding button on the camcorder is pressed. look on page 52-54. i hope this helps.

indera
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post #7 of 7
6/24/05 at 11:55pm
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Originally Posted by indera
hi rfortson,

i plan to install both products today. i was scanning through the book that comes with premiere elements and i think when you capture the video you have the option to bring it in as one huge file or as scenes based on when the stop recoding button on the camcorder is pressed. look on page 52-54. i hope this helps.

indera

You are correct. However, if you already captured the video using another program (Movie Maker 2, for example), you can't split the file into scenes with PE. You have to capture the video with Premiere Elements originally to get scenes within PE. I now know to use PE to capture my video even if I think I may edit it with another program. I'd rather PE treat scenes the way the other programs do, but then PE does lots of other nice things the other editors don't do.
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