Version 8 Trial Available

[Chuck Engels]

Try the latest Version of Premiere Elements

[RJ Johnston]

I tried it, but it keeps crashing right after I click the "new project" button or the "open an existing project" button. There was a crash report that I filled out and sent in to Adobe. I can open the Orgainizer.

That was disappointing. I think version 7 may be the last version that I'll be able to run on this Dell Dimension 3000 Pentium 4 3GHz HT with 2 GB RAM.

[JohnnyO]

I tried it, but it keeps crashing right after I click the "new project" button or the "open an existing project" button. There was a crash report that I filled out and sent in to Adobe. I can open the Orgainizer.

I get either the same problem RJ reports, or it comes up, and jusrt hangs. I can exit after it comes up and hangs, but I get the crash report.

I can open the organizer and Phptoshop Elemwnts 8.

[JohnnyO]

RJ - I know we are both running MAGIX MEP 15 PLUS. It makes me wonder if there is now an incompatability introduced with PRE8.

[RJ Johnston]

The window that is suppose to come up is the one where you enter the serial number or choose the trial version. That window never shows up.

The very first time I used PRE8, the edit environment loaded okay. But after that I could not load it again.

I'm going to let Adobe worry about it.

[JohnnyO]

The window that is suppose to come up is the one where you enter the serial number or choose the trial version. That window never shows up.

The very first time I used PRE8, the edit environment loaded okay. But after that I could not load it again.

I'm going to let Adobe worry about it.

This is exactly what happens on my system.

[RJ Johnston]

JohnnyO,

I uninstalled every Adobe program I had on my computer, deleted all Adobe folders, ran a registry cleaner, then installed the trial version again. Before running PRE8 for the first time, I made a copy of all folders in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe" except for the Acrobat folder which I couldn't delete. I restored these folders before running PRE8 each time. That was the only way I could get the trial version/serial number dialogbox to show up. There is one folder I nailed down that seemed to be the only one that I really needed to restore, "Adobe PCD."

Although I could start new projects and open existing ones, I couldn't edit for very long and would crash. That was with only a 20-second DV-AVI clip on the timeline and the video stabilizer applied. Since there's no way I can use PRE8, I've uninstalled it, and I am installing my other Adobe programs as I need them.

[roadsideron]

Same here. I gave up. PE 7 works fine and this is the first time I've passed on both Adobe and Pinnacle's new versions.

[RJ Johnston]

Here is my troubleshooting workaround for the chronic crashes I was having:

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