Premiere Elements settings

I am a new user of Premiere (always worked on final cut). I installed elements on a brand new 64 bit windows 7, 8 GB RAM, i7 processor machine and am having a lot of trouble.
when playing clips form my timeline in the monitor (7 minutes or so) the video is extremely (!!!!!) blurry. When I change the playback quality to highest it is much less blurry but I can only hear the audio but the video barely moves. few second clips work pretty smooth.
* Can anyone point out what settings should I be looking for?
* is Element (vs. Pro) not meant for clips longer than a few seconds.
* On another machine which is 32 bit with 3 GB RAM it works OK just is very slow when rendering.
* Any other ideas, I am pretty desperate.
All the best

Parts 1 and 2 of my free 8 part Basic Training tutorials shows you how to properly set up a project and get media into it.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/537685?tstart=0
Also note that some Panasonics shoot in 60p, a format that is not supported in Premiere Elements and will cause all sorts of problems.
If you plan to edit your video in Premiere Elements, you must shoot in 1920x1080i.

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We were pleased to learn that your problem was resolved by a just the Premiere Elements uninstall/reinstall
as you wrote in your post 2 and repeated your result in post 4.
As SG pointed out, the details of these issues are important to get at the core of the issues (whys) and expedite
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Users
Ower
AppData
Roaming
Adobe
Premiere Elements
9.0
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Add On...A ccleaner run through (regular cleaner and registry cleaner) may be indicated by itself or as part of
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Add On...What antivirus program are you running? McAfee, by any chance?

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http://forums.adobe.com/message/5779204#5779204
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Update....
No word from Adobe who would know for sure, but...
On a lead from a Premiere Pro CS6 thread that run into missing Playback Settings or grayed out Playback Settings in Premiere Pro CS6 version as well, we tried creating the keyboard shortcut Alt+Shift+P to access a possibily hidden "Playback Settings", no success. (See Premiere Elements 12 Windows 7 or 8 64 bit, Edit Menu/Keyboard Customization/Windows/Monitor Window/Playback Settings.)
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4412697
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More later.
ATR

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Jessie
Great news with your troubleshooting. Great job.
Let us now look at what you wrote
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from the point of view of
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ATR
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VRB817964
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or
NTSC AVCHD 1080p60.sqpreset file
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ATR

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jacquelinebaker
The party line is that you cannot change project settings once the project settings have been set. You need to start a new project.
Edit Menu/Project Settings/General does not offer the opportunity for any significant project settings change in this type of situation.
I have discovered that, under certain circumstances, that the user can change the established project preset without starting a new project.
The approach to doing this involves editing the Notepad document of the saved closed project file (project.prel file). I have written about this in the following blog post.
http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/05/pe11-changing-project-settings-without.html
You need to weigh the pros and cons of going through the procedure or just starting a new project and start the project again.
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http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/04/pe11-accuracy-of-automatic-project.html
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Thank you.
ATR

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Please refer to attached screenshot.

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See how you do. We can fine tune any glitches along the way if necessary.
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ATR

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With Premiere Elements 11, when Publish/Share (saving) a finished video, selecting H.264 .mov file type, what are the recommended Aspect and Codec settings , for a crisp video with a small file size?

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We will customize a very detailed reply, but
(a) What are the properties of your source media?
(b) What did you or the program set as the project preset to match the properties of the source media?
(c) What specific requirements do you have for this H.264.mov export file?
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Some reading that may help
Online User Guide http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premiereelements/using/index.html
-Page to download current PDF http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements.html
Importing Video http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1065281
-and project settings http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1112086
Saving & Sharing http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1137128
-Sharing to DVD or BluRay http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1137645
-Sharing for Movies http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1051093
-Sharing for Computer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1058237
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-http://forums.adobe.com/thread/537685
-v11 http://www.amazon.com/Muvipix-Guide-Premiere-Elements-version/dp/1479311200/
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TIPS http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere_elements/premiere_elements_tips

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I sent a support email to Adobe over a week ago but they have not even had the grace to acknowledge receipt. What an amazing way to treat customers that have paid for your product! And that's after providing screen grabs and detailed descriptions of the symptoms.
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I have no idea why the trial version will not let you install the legitimate serial number - the purchased version accepts it but the Trial puts up a red cross when you enter it.
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Correct.
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