Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements 10

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

Reviews of the about to be released(?) PrEl v10 and PSE v10.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/software ... lements-10

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/software ... lements-10

[RJ Johnston]

Oh my and ho hum.

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

Indeed. Not very flattering reviews, are they?

[Steve Grisetti]

Chuck, Ron and I have been very happy with this new version -- if for no other reason than that it runs better than the program has in a number of generations! (I'm not sure what PC Pro was trying to prove by loading a 120 fps video into the program -- but with standard AVCHD and DV camcorder and DSLR video, the program works great, even on a dual-core machine, in my experience.)

The 64-bit support is also very exciting, and it brings a noticeable improvement to the product.

Check out our reviews at http://Muvipix.com/pe10.php

[JP's]

Can you undock the panels to spread across two monitors?

[Chuck Engels]

I have completed 3 paid projects with the Version 10 Beta, that shows you how much I like and trust it. It is fast, reliable and fun to use, reminds me of versions 2 and 3 as far as stability. I can't say enough good things about this version. Wish they would have added a few things and maybe brought back a few things that they took away, but overall I really like it.

I have edited, HDV from an HV40 tape camcorder and video from a Nikon DSLR (720p) as well as a few other formats, no red lines, no issues editing, whether it is AVCHD or HDV, I'm excited about Premiere Elements for the first time in a long time.

If you were thinking about switching to another editor or to Premiere Pro, or trying to decide which editor to use, I would highly recommend Premiere Elements 10

[Chuck Engels]

Can you undock the panels to spread across two monitors?

Yes, I have undocked the Timeline and the Monitor panels.

[Paul LS]

Main thing that makes me happy is they have finally caught up with the competition and have incorporated high definition AVCHD disc burning... ie burning high definition AVCHD videos to standard DVDs with a menu structure so they can be played back on a Blu-ray player. Previously I had to use two programs to achieve this.

Also nice to have a more professional color correction effect.

As for the 64 bit version. What will suck though is that when it installs as a 64 bit application on Windows 7 64 bit you have to kiss goodbye to all your 32 bit plugins. Lets hope the plugin manufacturers release 64 bit versions... plus for free.

[Dave McElderry]

What does suck though is that it installs as a 64 bit application on Windows 7 64 bit... so you have to kiss goodbye to all your 32 bit plugins.

How does this work? Will both versions be included in the package or will you buy one or the other? Are you saying that you can't install the 32 bit version on Win 7-64?

EDIT: I see that you edited your original post Paul. So apparently it is optional.

[rfjg]

Unfortunately, you can’t install the 32bit version of PRE 10 on 64bit Windows 7
Also, the 64bit version is only Windows 7, if you have 64bit version of VISTA or XP, then the 32bit version of PRE 10 will install

[Dave McElderry]

Unfortunately, you can’t install the 32bit version of PRE 10 on 64bit Windows 7
Also, the 64bit version is only Windows 7, if you have 64bit version of VISTA or XP, then the 32bit version of PRE 10 will install

I guess I can sort of understand not putting engineering $$ into making the 64 bit version compatible with older operating systems, although not being a programmer I don't know what would really be involved. However, I can't quite understand the logic of not allowing the 32 bit version to be installed under Win 7-64.

[Chris B]

However, I can't quite understand the logic of not allowing the 32 bit version to be installed under Win 7-64.

Just guessing - one less variation to support.

Nice see the move to 64bit at consumer level (although it's taken long enough). Having said that I never had memory issues with PE anyhow so I don't know if I would see the benefit - does anyone have any performance numbers?

Perhaps this will motivate others who really need it to move there (I'm looking at you Vegas Movie Studio). The colour corrector seems to be playing catch up (does PE have the white balance tool equivalent of VMS yet?) and nothing stands out and says "buy me".

Very unimpressed with the upgrade price - a whole 17% discount. Any why is the download version MORE than the boxed version? Sticking with VMS for the moment.

[Bobby]

...Wish they would have added a few things and maybe brought back a few things that they took away, but overall I really like it...

OK, I'll ask the question: What did they REMOVE this time?

[Steve Grisetti]

Actually, they re-added several things that they'd removed or disabled in version 9.

They did remove a few minor things. Like the ability to output web quality WMVs and MOVs -- but it's easy enough to recreate the presets for them. (I even show you how in the books.)

And, while they've returned the icon view option to the project Media panel, you can't re-arrange the order of the media in icon view, as you could in earlier versions of the program.

[Dave McElderry]

Did they give us back the Favorites folder for transitions?