Adobe Premier Elements

[pin13689]

one feature i haven't found and would be very useful is the possibility to make use of keyframes in effects/controls

is this possible/available ?

if so, this is really going to be a hit !!!!

[pin13689]

sorry Marc,

didn't read your posts toroughly enough

glad to read all effects are keyframeble !

can't wait to get my hands on this one

[LJR]

Marc,

Were the audio fx keyframeable too?

[Marc Peters]

Yes

[scpatrick]

So what are the DVD menu capabilities like? Does it have motion menus, or the ability to have sub-menus? Can we add background audio to a menu?

In answer to other queries here I gather from the adobe forums that you cannot import a PremElem project into PremPro.

Simon

[Marc Peters]

DVD menus are good but basic for experienced users. There's an exhaustive set of templates, but you have little control - only submenu is created automatically out of the scenes, no motion menus. I'll take a look at the audio tonight.

Yep, as I said in my earlier posts and you suggest, prel projects are not compatible with ppro.

[Danny DeLoach]

Marc, thanks for this very helpful information you are providing about Premiere Elements.

I am wondering if Premiere Elements can capture directly to MPEG-2. From what I have gathered from Adobe's information, it can only capture to native DV format. I think that is a type of AVI file, but I'm not sure. My understanding is that capturing in native DV format would take up massive amounts of hard drive space. I guess over 10 Gigabytes per hour of video. Storing all that video for later use would fill a hard drive very quickly. I currently use Pinnacle Studio 8. It can capture directly to MPEG-2 and edit from MPEG-2 files. I capture and archive all of my footage at the highest MPEG-2 quality settings. This creates approximately 3GB files per hour of video.

So, my question is 1) Can Premiere Elements capture directly to MPEG-2 and 2) Can it edit from MPEG-2 files?

Thanks

[Marc Peters]

As far as I am aware, Elements can only capture in DV. You can import MPEG2 files into your project, but these will have to be rendered on the timeline to preview smoothly.

[LJR]

Danny,

One thing you may want to consider is that if you are going to be applying effects, transitions or corrections to your video which is natively stored as MPEG 2, then you will lose futher resolution when these files are rendered. It's better obviously to work in the dv avi format, do all rendering before transcoding to MPEG 2. Of course, if the disk space is a major concern then you might not have the option.

Marc,

Does this effectively mean that Premiere Elements cannot import footage from DVD Cams?

[Marc Peters]

Essentially, the only option available is DV capture. I understand that DVDcams only have USB and analogue connections. So it looks, as you say, that capture is NOT supported. But then why oh why oh why would someone buy a DVD cam?

You would have to go the "rip DVD to HDD, then convert" route. Perhaps there will be a plugin for VOB files. Perhaps not.