Premiere 6.0 LE - Missing Effects

sansucci · #1 (**permalink**) 10-25-2005, 07:52 PM

I am trying to use Premiere 6.0 LE (on a Sony Vaio Laptop) for the first time, and I need to flip horizontally all the frames. The help package with this edition suggests that this effect should be available but I appear to have no audio or video effects with my software. I suspect this is because I have an LE version?

Presumably if I upgraded to Pro 1.5 I would get all the effects but the upgrade fee appears to be about £200.

Whilst in the future I will probably require all the effects and may indeed upgrade, for the moment it is just this single effect that I need. Is it possible to download / buy effects? If so where?

So far I am getting nowhere...

Many thanks in advance.

Dave

Matty Boy · #2 (**permalink**) 10-25-2005, 10:09 PM

Hey Dave,

I just thought I would let you know that I had a similar problem with Adobe Premiere 6.0 LE on my Sony VAIO PC. I can't remember the exact problem but it was something to do with rendering some video footage into MPEG, anyhow, the software wouldn't let me do it even though it said I could in the manual.

After checking it out on the Sony website I found that a few of the more important features within the software were locked out and darkened on the menu bar. I think it's more than just a demo version but it's definitely not complete.

I solved the problem by purchasing Adobe Premiere Elements V1 (there's a V2 available now) and it only cost me about £60. I did look at the 'pro' version but it does loads more than I would ever need, plus I figured - why spend hundreds of pounds when you don't have to!

I'm not sure if you can buy plug-ins for the LE version but I'm not too sure about that, sorry.

Hope this helps

Matty

sansucci · #3 (**permalink**) 10-26-2005, 01:22 AM

Matty,

Thanks that might help. I have seen premiere elements but figured it was actually a more basic version of the version I already have. Like you I don't want to fork out lots of money on stuff that is too complicated for what I need. Does premiere elemements work in pretty much the same way as the version you had installed?

Also do you know if it has a horizontal flip effect? Basically I am working on a DV image that was filmed across a mirror and all the text etc is reversed so I want to try and digitally flip the image back.

Thanks for your help

Rgds

Dave

Matty Boy · #4 (**permalink**) 10-26-2005, 03:03 PM

Dave,

The interface of LE is pretty much the same as Premiere Elements V1 as far as I can remember. Click below to see a screenshot.

http://desktopvideo.about.com/od/ado.../> crn_RO.htm

I checked it out, Premiere Elements V1 has a horizontal flip effect which does exactly as you describe. It's under - Video Effects - Transform - Horizontal Flip.

Hope this helps

Matty

sansucci · #5 (**permalink**) 10-27-2005, 10:22 AM

Matty

Thanks, looks like I will have to buy Elements! Couldn't access the screen shot but I figure from what you say that the user interface is pretty much the same and I guess everything is cross compatible.

Many thanks for your time

Dave

Alan Mills · #6 (**permalink**) 10-27-2005, 11:53 AM

Marc has done a rather nice review of Premiere Elements on this site. search for that.