Does Elements have blurring capabilities?

Hello, we're looking at purchasing a video-editing software. At first, Premiere Pro sounded pretty good. But, Elements looks like it may handle our needs. I presume that Elements may not have all the bells and whistles that are found in Pro, but it would have the same processing "muscle" to handle movies (ours are 1920 x 1200). If I'm wrong on this, please correct me.
The main purpose currently for our editing is to blur confidential information in the movie. There would be several places that need to be blurred at once. There shouldn't be a need to have the blur move with the subject, but, if we need it, it seems that graphics can move with a subject.
So, my main question is this: Does Elements have the capability to blur subjects? I also welcome any comments or concerns that I need to consider before making this purchase.
Kevin

Though I love my PrPro, PrE can do so many of the same things (naming conventions and locations can be different). With the price differential, you should be able to do some serious hardware improvements. The three, that will give you the most bang-for-the-buck will be:
CPU power - especially if you use AVCHD source material
RAM - just fill up the MoBo per your OS. Except for the 4GB sticks, RAM is cheap now.
I/O sub-system, i.e. multiple fast physical HDD's, allocated properly. The most common recommended configuration is: C:\ OS, programs and probably Page File, D:\ Project and Scratch Disks, E:\ media files. If one is buying new, get the fastest possible C:\. Size does not matter THAT much. D:\ & E:\ should be fast (7200 RPM min.), but do not need to be as quick as C:\, and here bigger is better. If possible, SATA II will be the best controller.
Do NOT use any partitions. I am talking about physical, not logical, HDD's. If one goes a RAID _0 route, only use this for the media drive, and not for the system, or Project drive, unless you also use a RAID with redundancy. If you go RAID, I would look into a dedicated RAID controller card, instead of on-board RAID controller, or software striping.
Good luck,
Hunt

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