35 live in Cumbria, Married. IT geek and gadget fiend. Biker, photographer and video taker. Do some...
35 live in Cumbria, Married. IT geek and gadget fiend. Biker, photographer and video taker. Do some work for local press website. Started with ZX81 and still learning
Member since:19.02.2009
Reviews:13
I have recently been roped in to doing video editing for a local paper, and a little video recording and taking the odd photo. Has a lot to do with marrying the Content Editor and Web guru.
So after being faced with using a really outdated copy of premiere (5 or 6 I think) I bought myself this Premiere/Photoshop Elements package. I have to say that I'm glad I did.
First off I have a big Dual Corelaptop (T8100 Pentium Processor, 3Gb RAM 2x320 Gb momentus Drives and a big Nvidia GT card) which is well over the requirements of this software. Secondly I bought from Amazon for under £90 for the package on special offer and thirdly I have had some experience of Premiere in the past.
Installation was smooth and simple, no problems, no fuss just the usual 20-30 minute installation process. Once installed and registered I discovered one of the niggly flaws with the program, codecs, what seems to happen is that every time you want to export as a different type of video for the first time it wants to go to the Adobe site and get an unlock code that you then have to type in to get the codec to work. Both Flash and MPEG did this which is more than a little annoying, if its installed with the software why unlock it? Anyway as its a one off thing for each codec its annoying but not bad enough to make you completely fed up with it.
If you have used other versions of Premiere everything looks much the same, some menus have been integrated with each other and a couple of the work areas have been moved about but it is definitely an evolution of the earlier versions (as is Photoshop) and as such once you get into the swing of things its easy to find your way around. Production of video is that same as always a slow repetitive process where you find the bits you want to keep and move them around into a sequence that looks OK, put titles on it, play with the sound and export. These functions haven't really changed but they do seem just a little faster.
Photoshop is much the same as it has ever been, its still probably the best image editor around for retouching and editing digital images, again the menus and layout has evolved but everything looks familiar.
My biggest problem is this new trend to make the software file and categorise everything, and it seems that this is one of the major developments of the packages in that they want you to tag and classify all of you photos and videos, thankfully it can be ignored, I have always filed mine in a simple folder structure on a hard drive, but it does get on your nerves a little.
Both packages have proven rock solid and I have had little in the way of crashes or computer freezes which is nice to see. Reliable surprisingly inexpensive and full featured software package from Adobe.
As an extra I have been teaching my wife to use it for simple news bulletins for their website, after being initially apprehensive about the interface because it looks so unfriendly she loves playing about with it now is producing top quality stuff.
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