Can Elements 9 Organizer send to Premiere Elements 7?

Question

When right-clicking an item in the Elements 9 Organizer the context sensitive menu includes "Edit with Photoshop Elements..." & "Edit with Premiere Elements...".
These "Edit with" dialogs look only for  PSE9 and PRE9. Is there a way to make the PRE link open up PRE7?
Cheers,
Neale
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Answer 1

Neale
I have looked specifically at what I think that you tried to demonstrate in your mini videos, that is, how long it takes
(a) for video thumbnails to populate completely all the frames of a given video dragged to the Premiere Elements 9 vs 7 Timeline
as well as
(b) for video thumbnails to populate completely all the frames viewed after toggling from Timeline Zoom In Zoom Out.
I started with the fundamental observation that the Video Track Display Style default was NOT the same in Premiere Elements 7 and 9. The same 4 Styles are offered in 7 and 9
a. All frames from of the video displayed with thumbnails of video imported to that video track
b. Only the first and last frame displayed with thumbnails of the video imported to that video track.
c. Only the first frame displayed with thumbnail of the video imported to that video track.
d. None of the frames from the video displayed with thumbnails of video imported to that video track.
The default for Premiere Elements 7 is “a” whereas the default for Premiere Elements 9 is “b”. And, I have not found a location in either program to reset that default. It is obvious, if you use the Premiere Elements 9 default with only the first and last frame expected to be populated with a video image, rate of population of frames with video images might not be as obvious. I have no way of knowing whether or not Adobe made this default change as a tradeoff for something else new in the Timeline. But it makes me wonder "Why the change?" Be that as it may.
I did some comparisons of the matter with a 5 minutes MPEG4.avi video (so about 9000 frames). My initial testing indicated:
a. Generally time for population of all frames with video was quicker with Premiere Elements 7 than 9, but not all the time.
b. The slowest time of population of all frames in Premiere Elements 9 was 3 to 4 seconds which could be brought to essentially “instant” with the sequence:
Make sure that the video thumbnail in the Media Area was properly Updated
Import the video to the Timeline with its defauft Track Display Style “b”
After video was on the Timeline, change the Default Track Display Style to “a”
Then do your toggle Zoom In, Zoom Out.
Making sure that the Timeline was selected also seemed to factor into quicker or instantaneous population of all the frames with video.
At the present time I do not have access to a computer with greater resources to rule in or out that possible aspect of the problem. Too, the source of the video, number of frames involved, and project settings do need to be defined in these observations. Neale, it looked like you were dealing with a 4 minute video, so I used a 5 min video for testing - NTSC DV Standard project. And, it was really too early for me to report even the above. But, I did feel that the points above did need to enter into the discussion.
Whatever the case, I do not feel that the performance of Premiere Elements 9 in this regard is a deal breaker for me.
To be continued…..
ATR