Interesting comparison - Premiere Elements / iMovie

I am trying to diagnose the issues I am running into with Premiere Elements - I can't work for 4 minutes before it crashes, makes it difficult to accomplish anything!
As I look at several options, including another system upgrade, I am thinking it might be an option to stay with PrE (8.0) on Windows OR get a Mac for video edition/photo editing.
If anyone has experience in this area, how does PrE compare to iMovie? On a scale of 1-10, 1 being iMovie - 10 being Final Cut Pro (or, perhaps Premiere Pro ... don't know how they compare). Where does PrE fall - more capabilities options than iMovie, less than Final Cut/Pr Pro ... maybe a 4, 5, 6?
Interesting question or odd question! Just want to have a good option for doing some amateur video editing (video from Canon 7D & Canon HF S100, still photos and various audio).
Thanks for your thoughts, feedback, recommendations! Although this is a Windows centered blog with Premiere Elements for Windows, I knew it would be a knowledgable group!

Steve,
You have hit one big "nail" squarely on the head:
It also falls victim to Windows chief liability -- that Microsoft has to design and maintain an operating system that runs on every possible configuration of hardware. And, well, you know how that can go. Although Windows 7 seems to have addressed most of those issues.
Because of the myriad possibilities for configuration, both hardware and software, a user has to be more pro-active with their system.
Over the years, working on many thousands of problems with Adobe NLE's, I still see these issues break down in this order:
System
Assets
Project settings
System issues far outweigh the other two, and should be addressed by most users first. Assets come in second, and if Project settings match Assets, it falls way at the bottom. Now, there are also cases of OE (Operator Error) and real Bugs. Though some versions of the Adobe NLE's do have some real Bugs, we're probably talking less than 1% of all issues. While I have not done a spreadsheet, my "seat-o-the-pants" experience substantiates the above list as where one should start and the order they should work on things for troubleshooting.
Mac's do have one big advantage - far more commonality in hardware and software. Of course, it now seems that the new Snow Leopard OS does not play nice with many things Adobe, so even the vaunted Mac's are not fail-safe. To me, considering the almost complete control that Apple has over all things Mac, there should NEVER be any incompatibility issues, given that Adobe offers so many programs for both platforms. How Apple can issue an OS upgrade that ignores so many Adobe programs is beyond my comprehension.
Just some thoughts,
Hunt

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Premiere Elements 13 et Mac Os X Yosemite

Bonjour,
J'aimerais acheter Premiere Elements 13. J'utilise actuellement Mac os x 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard, je crois) mais je suis disposée à mettre à jour en os x Yosemite (je ne trouve pas de version moins récente à télécharger).
Pouvez-vous me confirmer que le logiciel Premiere Elements 13 fonctionne avec Yosemite ?
Merci.

gg_athv
Premiere Elements 13 does not support Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Mac OSX 10.7.
I am strictly an Elements Windows user, but I have seen reports of Premiere Elements13 Mac users using
the program successfully on Yosemite.
Whatever the case, it is usually a good idea to look at the tryout of the program before purchase to assure its
compatibility with your computer environment and your project goals. Although there have been some additions to 13,
there have been several removals of some of the features of prior versions.
http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements/kb/removed-features-formats-elements.html
May be of interest
ATR Premiere Elements Troubleshooting: Premiere Elements 13 First Look Details
ATR Premiere Elements Troubleshooting: Premiere Elements 13 Daily Discoveries
ATR
Add On...This is not Adobe. Rather a user to user forum.

Premiere elements 10 question

I recently purchased a Panasonic HDC-TM90 camcorder and want to buy an easy to use video editing program and I am interested in Premiere elements.
Can this program edit HD recordings? My computer is a dual core machine and I was not sure if there were any issues and if I should not record in HD if I wanted to edit it.
Thanks,
Steven

If the camera will ONLY shoot in one of the "p"(Progressive) formats, then I would look to Adobe PrPro CS 5.5, or perhaps another NLE program. There are some other good ones out there, but I cannot tell you which ones might be better, beyond the much more expensive PrPro. Cyberlink's PowerDirector, Magix MovieEdit Pro, and several versions of Sony's Vegas, all get good general reviews, but I don't know how any handles progressive Video files. Maybe others will have very specific recommendations for you.
Good luck, and enjoy the new camera,
Hunt

Can premiere elements do the following?

1. rotate a clip?
2. color correct a clip?
3. modify brightness of a clip?
4. remove a portion of a clip in the middle of a clip?

Highmeasdowhiker
Thank you for identifying the program of interest as Premiere Elements 12 on assumed Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 64 bit computer.
We are not Adobe trying to sell you Premiere Elements (any version). This is user to user where this user tries to supply Premiere Elements users with customized answers to Premiere Elements questions.
1. You can read the Premiere Elements 12 Help PDF that is available online, and it has Table of Content with clearly defined Chapters and subject matter under those Chapter titles including the items that I am about to mention
http://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/premiere-elements_reference.pdf
2. The Adobe Effects Reference link that I already gave you is an excellent one for sizing up the Effects situation, including Color Correction and Brightness.
The header of that Effects Reference document has a list of categories to click on...Adjust for Brightness and Color Correction for Color Correction.
In the Premiere Elements 12 Expert workspace you would find Color Correction under the fx Effects Tab/Color Correction. For
Brightness, see fx Effects/Advanced Adjustments/Image Control. These particular effects you drag into the Timeline clip and then edit
the effect under the Applied Effects Tab.
3. In Premiere Elements 12, you can burn to DVD-VIDEO on DVD disc, AVCHD format on DVD disc, and Blu-ray disc format on Blu-ray disc.
You can also burn to folder for DVD-VIDEO and AVCHD (VIDEO_TS Folder to take to DVD-VIDEO on DVD disc and the BDMV Folder to take to AVCHD on DVD disc with 3rd party software. No burn to folder for Blu-ray. And, Premiere Elements stop markers do not function at playback for AVCHD DVD or Blu-ray disc format on Blu-ray disc.
4. As for Rotation...
a. Right click the file on the Expert workspace Timeline, select Rotate 90 Right or Rotate 90 Left from the pop up menu.
or
b. Select the Timeline clip, go to Applied Effects Tab/Applied Effects Palette/Motion Panel expanded to find the Rotation option
with more controls.
Also check out Adobe TV Premiere Elements 12 for video tutorials.
http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-premiere-elements-12/
You leave yourself open to a lot of surprises if you do not look at the Premiere Elements 12 tryout before purchase. It can crash like any other version of Premiere Elements or any other software given the appropriate circumstances (some explained, some not.)
And I have no idea where you are coming from when you ask
BTW, Can PS 12 burn Blu-Ray?
Is that supposed to represent Premiere Elements 12? The abbreviation made me wonder since PS typical is used to represent Photoshop and PSE is used to represent Photoshop Elements. I am assuming that you meant Premiere Elements and that PS was a typing mistake.
Please review and consider.
ATR

IMovie/iDVD vs Adobe Premiere Elements Comparison Question

Has anyone used Adobe Premiere Elements and iMovie/iDVD to be able to make an objective comparison? It appears APE has the same feature content as iMovie/iDVD.
How well does APE run on your typical Core 2 Duo Windows laptop (1.6mhz)?
Just curious.
14" 1.2mhz iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1.25m ram, Superdrive

Okay, so here's my settings for my project...
To begin with, my output is to a WD HDTV Plus which needs a H.264 1920X1080i30 file.
The source footage is SONY AVCHD 1080i60.
My Import Prefs:
AVCHD: Apple ProRes422
AC-3 Audio: Plain Stereo
RT:
Both Dynamic Playbacks
Unlimited RT
Exported using QuickTime Conversion:
Compression: H.264
Frames:
Current
Key Frames:
Every 24
Compressor Quality: Best
Data Rate: Automatic
When it gets played back, still elements look "HD" but moving objects are jittered....HELP!
thanks
Marshall

Editing iMovie files with Adobe Premiere Elements for Windows

Hi,
My 12 year old asked for Final Cut Pro for Christmas to edit movies he takes on his iPod touch and iPad. However, he has a Windows-based desktop. As I understand it, Final Cut Pro is not a Windows-based program. I thought we could get him Adobe Premiere Elements for Windows, but will he be able to manipulate his iMovie files easily? I have no idea what format the iMovie files are. Will he be able to download them to his Windows desktop, edit his movie, and then upload back to his Apple devices? Thanks!

clue
Bottom line: Making distinction between video editor project files and formats of exports.
Details...
The iPod touch and iPad typically offer video files H.264.mov or H.264.mp4 formats. This is not a Mac versus Windows matter because we are talking exports (.mov and .mp4) not project files from a video editing project.
He should be able to take his iPod or iPad device videos and edit them in Premiere Elements. And, then he should be able to return them to his device(s).
But, many of these devices record video with a variable frame rate (depending on the lighting conditions to a great extent). Premiere Elements (any version) can have problems with such video to the extend (a) out of sync audio (b) cannot import file at all. I have a iPod Touch 4th Generation and have no Premiere Elements importing/editing/exporting problems with my 1280 x 720 @ 30 progressive frames per second (H.264.mov) video from that iPod.
Below is an excerpt of Premiere Elements 13 exports that might be of interest...
Android Phones and Tablets (NEW)
There are 7 presets in this new Android Phones and Tablets category. Each has Advanced Button and Share Work Area Bar Only opportunities. The names of the 7 Android Phones and Tablets presets are
MP4 - 1080p 25
MP4 - 1080p 29.97
Android Tablet - 1280 x 800 25
Android Tablet - 1280 x 800 29.97
MP4 - 720p 23.976
MP4 - 720p 25
MP4 - 720p 29.97
Apple iPod, iPad, iPhone
In going from 12 to 13, there are now 8 presets instead of 16 for the Apple iPod, iPad, iPhone category. Each preset has Advanced Button and Share Work Area Only opportunities. The names of the 5 presets are
Apple TV, iPad, iPhone4 - 720p25
Apple TV, iPad, iPhone4 - 720p29.97
Apple TV, iPad, iPhone4 - 1080p25
Apple TV, iPad, iPhone4 - 1080p29.97
Apple iPad 2,3,4, Mini; iPhone 4S, 5, 5S; Apple TV 3 - 1080p 23.976 NEW
Apple iPad 2,3,4, Mini; iPhone 4S, 5, 5S; Apple TV 3 - 1080p 25 NEW
Apple iPad 2,3,4, Mini; iPhone 4S, 5, 5S; Apple TV 3 - 1080p 29.97 NEW
Removed preset names are
Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Widescreen Low Quality
Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Widescreen Medium Quality
Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Widescreen High Quality
Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Standard Low Quality
Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Standard Medium Quality
Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Standard High Quality
Apple iPad Widescreen Low Quality
Apple iPad Widescreen Medium Quality
Apple iPad Widescreen High Quality
Apple iPad Standard Low Quality
Apple iPad Standard Medium Quality
Apple iPad Standard High Quality
The ideal way would be to look at the tryout of Premiere Elements 13 before purchase. If not possible, then, if purchased from Adobe direct, there
should be an opportunity for money back within 30 days of purchased. If purchased from an authorized reseller, then the refund/return would be according to the policy of the retailer.
Please let us know if you are OK with the above information. If you need more information, please do not hesitate to ask. If clarification on anything that I have written is needed, please let me know.
Thank you.
ATR

How do I edit clips in iMovie (or Premiere Elements 10)?

I am new to Mac. Used to have no problem at all editing and converting movies on my PC. Have both iMovie and Adobe Premiere Elements 10 on my new Mac. Even as a borderline PC geek, I can't seem to figure how to clip and edit and merge videos on my Mac. Guessing I will have questions about saving to a new DVD as well when I get that far. Trying to condense dozens of DVDs with old family home movies down to a single DVD by selecting 'best of clips.' Grateful for any assistance.

Hi Jeni,
I am not familiar with Windows Movie Maker, so I lack any frame of reference (no pun inteneded) to judge what you may be doing wrong. Both iMovie and Premiere Elements (PE) are designed so that the normal work flow is trim the clip the way you want, then put the clip in the timeline of your movie. In either you can work other ways, but the layout and tools in these programs are pretty much geared for that type of workflow. I use both by the way, although I am fairly new to Adobe Premiere Elements 10 and have not used iMovie all that much. In PE for example, you can double click the clip you want to use and that opens the clip viewer. You slide the pointers at the beginning and end of the clip viewer time line to set what are called "in and out points" and drag the clip into your time line or onto the scene line depending on which PE editing mode you are using. When you eventually export the movie using the Share panel, the program exports the entire timeline, which should be the series of trimmed clips, unless you check the box to tell it to only export the marked part of the timeline (I forget the title on the check box and don't have the program running in front of me). But in either case, each clip in your movie or portion of a movie should be trimmed according to the in and out points you previously set.
iMovie works on a similar concept, except you drag your mouse pointer over a clip in an event to adjust the yellow rectangle to mark the part of the clip you want to use, then drag that clip into you project. In either program there are ways of trimming and cropping clips in the timeline/sceneline/project and automatically adjusting the rest to compensate, but in any case, I'm not sure why you would be losing the edits.
Steve

I purchased a License for Adobe Photoshop Elements 13 plus Adobe Premiere Elements 13 and Adobe doesn't recognize the License Key, Adode customer services aren't interested.

I purchased a License for Adobe Photoshop Elements 13 plus Adobe Premiere Elements 13 and Adobe doesn't recognize the License Key, Adobe customer services aren't interested, neither are Ebuyer.com.
Where do I go next? Credit card company to ask for a refund?

57dibbs
Has you contacted the seller through its Customer Service?
If that is the case and Customer Service has no idea of what you were given as a Product Key and how to use it, have you considered asking
your question in the seller's forum (PC software section)?
But, I have another idea for you to try first....are you involved in a student teacher purchase with prepaid card? If so, please click on the following link
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/find-serial-number-student-teacher.html#card-sub mit-product-code
and go to the section on "I received a prepaid card, and I need help". In that section go to "2" which is for
"Submitting my product code and proof of eligibility to Adobe". You will notice there is a link to click on that
is related to country. Make the appropriate choice and see if that solves the problem. You should see
Visit the page listed on the back of your prepaid card to submit your code and proof.
For customers inside North America, www.adobe.com/go/edu-validate
For customers outside North America, submit through your region's customer portal below:
Europe, Middle East, Africa | Germany | France | Spain | Italy | Netherlands | Czech Republic | Poland | Asia/Pacific | Korea
Verification can take anywhere from 2 to 30 days to validate.
If the above does not apply to you, then I would explore the seller forum for answers if you cannot get them from Adobe Chat or the seller's
Customer Service. Getting your money back from the seller should be tried as soon as possible if you find no solution.
Thank you.
ATR

Any new users of Premiere Element 9 ? (to compare with iMovie)

Just read an article in in MacGeneration (in french) about Premiere Element 9. I'm quite impressed. I really like the fact the one can either use an interface similar to iMovie or a more advanced and traditional multi-track timeline. Many transitions and effects are available. Looks better than iMovie to me.
For those who can read french:
http://www.macgeneration.com/labo/voir/127492/test-de-premiere-elements-9-pour-m ac

Hi
Looks better than iMovie to me.
And costs ?
My experiences with Premiere - Was an unstable and shaky (bombing and locking up) road.
So if this new version is as unstable - I wait.
Take a look at FinalCut Express - You might end up as me - Loving it.
Yours not knowing - just thinking out aloud. Bengt W

Premiere Elements not allowing me to edit photos. I am not interested in videos. Also not opening photos from other sources. Windows 8 computer

I have many photos in my files and computers; most of them are visible in Premiere elements Organizer, but I can't edit them or pull out individual ones. Often cannot open a photos that comes in an email. I don't use videos; I just want to edit my photos.
Did I buy the wrong program?

Hi
Premiere Elements is a video editor not a photo editor. This is why you cannot edit your photos.
The organiser is for both Photoshop (photographic editor) and Premiere (video editor) elements. This is for managing your photo and video library.
I hope this helps.

Newly installed Premiere Element 13 won't run.

I just installed Premiere Element13. The program launches but when I select either "New" or "Existing" project, a pop-up will show with the message"Adobe Premiere Element.exe - No Disk" "Please insert disk in drive D". The pop-up cannot be dismissed and the program is stuck there and won't even close. I have to go to Task Manager to end it! I am running Windows 8.1, i5 4670K CPU, 8G RAM, 1T HD with DVD burner. Any suggestion?

Heliossss
I just installed the purchased version of Premiere Elements 13 on Windows 7 and 8.1 64 bit. Interesting....
1. Beyond the usual, there seems to be a problem with this version's Interpret Footage and Properties readings for the .mod widescreen 16:9 file
Premiere Elements 13 Major .MOD Widescreen Concerns
2. With the Sept 2014 tryout there was a video transition named Funnel which is not there now in December 2014 in the
purchased version.
3. In the Sept. 2014 tryout, there were 2 new Movie Menu themes in the Kid's Corner category (Recital and Back to School). They
are not there in my December 2014 purchased Premiere Elements 13.
4. There are some reports about some .m2ts files having no sound only in the Elements Organizer 13 player. More news on that.
This just might be a problem with AC-3 (Dolby Digital) support in this particular user file in the Elements Organizer 13 player. If you run into this type of issue, please let us know.
But, right now all is moving along nicely. Hope all is going well there.
Best wishes
ATR

How many cores can Adobe Premiere Elements 12 utilise on a CPU?

I am looking into purchasing 1 of 3 different products right now and Elements is one of those with others being competitors. Due to Elements not utilising OpenCL or Cuda increased rendering speed, other software looks like a better solution. However, the ones I am currently looking at only use up to 4 cores. The processor I am looking at is the Intel 4930k 6 core processor, will Elements utilise all cores effectively? Also I have heard Elements runs poorly on Windows 8.0 and 8.1 as compared with 7.* . Is this the case?
-Best Wishes, A

ABane
This is not Adobe. Just a user to user forum where some of us do not have 6 core processor. to give you a first hand answer and and all of us do not have access to Adobe Engineering support documents that are not typically seen online. We visit here on a non scheduled basis, so a posted thread does not activate an instantaneous reply process.
If you want an Adobe answer to your question, you might click on the following link, and, when it opens, click on the statement
"Still need help? Contact us." in order to bring up Adobe Chat for the topic of "Downloading, Installing, and Setting Up".
Contact Customer Care
Interesting, it looks like a new format for the old link. But, let us see how effective it is with this new format.
Premiere Elements 12 should be able to use 4 cores. Probably 6 cores for encoding, but I cannot give you the definite answer.
Supported devices | Adobe Premiere Elements
I can tell you first hand, Premiere Elements 12/12.1 runs well on Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit, Windows 8 64 bit, and Windows 8.1 64 bit.
And these computer are using dual core processors.
ATR

Premiere Elements 9 Project Media View List & Icon Icons Gone

Today at another forum that I frequent, a Premiere Elements 9 user was distressed because he could not find the List (Ctrl + Page Up) & Icon (Ctrl _ Page Down) icons that were found in the prior version of the Project Media View. The Icon view was particularly useful for sorting media before dragging to the Timeline or for the Create Slideshow feature. Now in Premiere Elements 9, all you have are your media in a list format with no option to sort.
This person simultaneously posted his question at another forum for which he received a reply and a workaround which included going into the Elements Organizer/Create/SlideShow Editor and create a slideshow that could be outputted (Edit in Premiere Elements) back into Premiere Elements 9. I would take issue with that suggested approach since I believe that there is an easier and quicker workaround to overcome the inconvenient loss of those features in Premiere Elements 9 Project Media View.
First, the questions and then my workaround for this situation
Does anyone know if Adobe is aware of this situation and intends to correct this oversight or intentional change in features?
Has anyone come up with his/her favorite workaround for this matter?
Bottom Line for my workaround: From Premiere Elements 9 workspace, go to Elements Organizer workspace and create a sorted album of the media brought into Premiere Elements 9 Get Media/Files & Folders. Then exist Elements Organizer, opening to Premiere Elements workspace where one uses Filter by: Select Album and does just that.
I will post a step by step on my suggested workaround if requested.
ATR

SG
I was trying to be discreet and have us still remain friends, so I did not mention the responder at the other forum by name or place. You let the cat out of the bag. OK, no offense taken please, but I thought that your workaround "Elements Organizer/Create/Slideshow/Edit With Premiere Elements" was "not so good" a choice. I will owe up to that.
None of the workarounds are as good as the Adobe Icon View of prior version, but....
Workaround 1. If your interest is getting sorted photos for using the Create Slideshow Feature in Project Media View. The secret is to put the photos in a Folder and then move the photos around in the Folder. I can go into the choreography on that if need be. Then highlight all the photos in the Folder, select Create Slideshow. Even if you do not go the Create Slideshow route, this is one way to get sorted photos for the Timeline.
Workaround 2. If the Create Slideshow feature is not involved. Going the create Album route in Elements Organizer.
Premiere Elements 9 Get Media/Files and Folders
Add Media Dialog
Select photos, Click Open
Select Organizer in the row above the line of Organize/Edit/Disc Menus/Share to open the Elements Organizer.
In the Elements Organizer, go to the Albums category and expand that category, then click on the green cross, and select New Album. On that right side of the Elements Organizer you will see a window with two tabs, Content and Sharing. Select Content and drag your media from the major window on the left to the Content window on the right. Name the album and click Done.
You will then see your Album name listed in the Album’s category. Click the green icon to the left of the Album name. When you do, you will see thumbnails for your photos numbered sequentially in the major window on the left side of the Elements Organizer. Sort the photos there as you want them arranged on the Timeline.Then exit Elements Organizer via File Menu/Exit.
The Premiere Elements Organize workspace will open. Go to the Filter by: Select Album and do just that, selecting the sorted album that you just created. Highlight the photos and drag them to the Timeline.
That is what I have come up with so far. I have been doing a lot of retesting of the principle to make sure that it would work more than just the first time.
What do you think? Contribution or first class dud??
ATR
Just another possible variation on the thought with regard to Create Slideshow....it might merit thinking about numerically or alphabetically ordering your photos in a Folder beforehand and then bringing the Folder into Premiere Elements so that you have the Folder in Project Media View...Select All...Right Click Highlight....Create Slideshow?????

Premiere Elements 9 PC: Major Importer Failure

I think that I have gone down every troubleshooting road on trying to discover why "all of a sudden" Premiere Elements 9 PC will not import anything via Get Media/Files and Folders into its Organize interface as is its default behavior. The program fails at that point and shows the message "the program is not responding". Yet if you force the closure of that particular project and reopen a new one, you find that those media that failed to import into Organize in the first project now are live and well in the Organize of the new project. You can drag them from the Organize to the Timeline and use them in this new project. All other functions of Premiere Elements 9 PC appear unaffected by this import failure. AND, source media can be video (any format and size) and photos (any size). This happens even with import of the first and only file being a jpg (800 x 600 pixels).
My history of Premiere Elements 9 PC/baddrivers.txt file/ and "incompatible driver messages" is well documented in these forums. That involved Windows XP Professional SP3 32 bit and a NVIDIA display card. And, I have been moving along successfully with Premiere Elements 9 PC for several months. About two weeks ago, I upgraded my computer to Windows 7 Professional 64 bit Intel Graphics Card, and Premiere Elements has been performing great until yesterday when what I call "major importer failure" struck. The computer has about 800 GB free hard drive space and about 2.5 GB out of 4.0 GB of available RAM. All of this worked great for about two weeks and now suddenly this yesterday. Did I do anything different or unusual? I think not. I also have Premiere Elements 7 and 8 on this same new computer, and they continue to function perfectly in all respects, whereas Premiere Elements 9 does not. AND, yes I have had the Premiere Elements 9.0.1 Update installed and in use before and after the importer failure.
Troubleshooting has included
a. Uninstall/Reinstall from Premiere Elements 9 installation disc + uninstall/reinstall of QuickTime + Photoshop Elements 9 as well.
b. System Restore (as well as a restore of an earlier version of the installed Premiere Elements 9.
c. Removal of possible interferring program, such as, Nero InCD.
d. Removal of recent Windows Updates
e. Uninstall/reinstall of Intel driver since at one point in the failure the Edit Mode Monitor was displaying part of the Disc Menu Section while the program was in the Organize Mode.
f. Have looked at permissions, running as Administrator, etc.
One of the things that I will try this morning is installing Premiere Elements 9 PC on the previous system Windows XP Professional SP3 32 bit to see if there is any major importer failure there at this time.
If anyone has the time, I would appreciate any comments on a troubleshooting avenue that I may have overlooked. This appears to be another Deja Vu all over again. I hope not.
Thanks.
ATR

Neale
Thank you for your interest in this issue.
I still have not pin pointed why my Premiere Elements 9 works great EXCEPT it will not import media into the Organize with Get Media/Files and Folders and attempts to do that drive the program into unresponsiveness and extreme difficult closure, even with the Task Manager.
Yes, I have already looked at the workaround that you suggested for moving forward in my Premiere Elements 9 PC project, that is, entering all my source media into the Elements Organizer (can do from Photoshop Elements side) so that the source media thumbnail will be in the Premiere Elements Organize "ahead of time", and I will not have to depend upon Get Media/Files and Folders to get that job done.
But, until I hit the key to this, I think I have an almost perfect better way. My computer is now Windows 7 Professional 64 bit that comes with the Windows XP Mode. Essentially what you have in this mode is a virtual Windows XP Professional SP3 32 bit machine (best I can determine, Microsoft Generic Card). I can install Premiere Elements 9 (same serial number as on the Windows 7), and IT WORKS, no problem with the Get Media/Files and Folders. The one glitch in this perfect solution is setting up to burn to DVD. The Windows 7 Windows XP Mode Virtual Machine will not recognize installed internal DVD/CD drives when you go to write a DVD. The explanation is that the optical drive in XP Mode is a virtual device - read only. I have confirmed this. In order to use Premiere Elements 9 PC burn to disc in this Windows XP Mode , my answer here appears to be plugging in an external DVD burner USB and then using the USB Attach of the Windows XP Mode.
When Premiere Elements 9 PC was released, I was forced into much troubleshooting of the display issues which are very widely documented here. But then I was using "a real" Windows XP Professional SP3 32 bit" with a NVIDIA card. In the trial version, the BadDrivers.txt and VideoRenderer.dll got me through that episode. For me, the purchased version "essentially" was not afflicted with these same problems, and it has been running great. Now when I go to a new computer system for better performance/greater computer resources (by the way, Intel HD Graphics card), Premiere Elements 9 runs great for two weeks and then this no Get Media/Files and Folders matter sets in accompanied by program going completely knocked out by the event. In all of this, old or new, I have Premiere Elements 7, 8, and 9 installed on the same computer. While Premiere Elements 9 is being hit with these issues, Premiere Elements 7 and 8 are not , same computer environment, same source media, same project preset, et al. For me, the Premiere Elements 9.0.1 has not hit the mark.
I have done extensive troubleshooting of the this current matter, too long and involved to go into now. I am preparing a full detailed description of the issue and the troubleshooting that went into the search for a fix. I will be posting it at the forum that I frequent. When I post it there, I will supply a link to it for whomever is interested. I have filed a bug report with Adobe on this matter in abridged format as per the space provided in its bug report online form.
Thanks again for posting.
ATR

Premiere Elements 12 Problems ... still quite buggy?

Hi all,
I used Premiere Elements 11 up to now. Currently testing Version 12 - which appears to be quite buggy to me... Now I just wanted to make sure that it's not me being too dump to find the correct settings...
BTW: I'm using a MacBook w/ Retina from 2012 and most current OS X Maverics as well as a freshly updated APE 12 Testversion (...with German Language)...
1. ...and most anoying one: scrolling in the Timeline left and right on (Apple Magic-)Mouse works now just the other way round than in APE 11 (...which was quite intuitive to me... :-( ) ...I've found some settings for the keyboard, but nothing regarding mouse wheel scroll direction. BTW: is it possible to use up and down scrolling to pan up and down the video-tracks instead of moving back and forth in the timeline (...again).
2. Most interesting new feature of V 12 is the motion tracking (at least for me):
a) I can only use motion tracking with those childish graphics and animation. I just want to use it for simple text as the help message suggests should be possible as well. But the button to place texts is disabled when motion tracking is enabled... is there another way to enable motion tracking on a existing text-and/or-graphic-overlay?
b) I have a lot of videos filmed with a GoPro in upside-down-mode, meaning that I have to rotate the videos by 180 degree in Premiere. Motion tracking appears not to be able to handle that. While objects can be tracked (which is also not too easy as i had to find out) the motion track seems to be way more suitable for the non-rotated video... I've found no way, yet to rotate the track as well (without roating the graphic as well).
So... unfortunately Version 12 is a bit frustrating up to now... Thanks for your help!
Losty

Sorry for your challenges, Losty. I'm having great success with version 12!
Of course, Mac Retina displays are known for causing problems like the ones you're experiencing. I'd hoped Mac would have fixed this by now.
You can certainly use your own text, graphic or even a picture-in-picture with Motion Tracking. I demonstrate how in tutorial on the left side of this page. http://Muvipix.com/pe12.php
As for 2b, I have no idea why you're shooting your videos upside-down, but you certainly are adding an unnecessary level of complexity to your post production. I'd recommend that you first right-side-up your videos in Premiere Elements and then output the finished video using Publish & Share/Computer/AVCHD with the M2T 1920x1080 preset to output the fixed video. You can then use your righted videos in a new project and do all the Motion Tracking you want with it.

Interesting comparison - Premiere Elements / iMovie

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