jackie980 wrote:I was looking at some and saw Adobe Premiere Elements 3, what is the difrence between elements and the others?
Premiere Elements 3 is a "consumer" version of Premiere Pro. It features the same interface (mostly), but doesn't have the amount of effects or plugin support that Pro has.
It's the easiest program to edit with in comparison to most of the editors out there -- even its own prior versions. PE 3 does have a few nice new things going for it -- much better memory management for faster rendering, better support for MPEG2 and third-party codecs (but not perfect), and MP4 export support for iPods, PSPs, etc.
The only real negative I have against it is that it still doesn't support third-party codecs well. HuffYUY exports are still screwy, Lagarith Lossless Codec seems to come out with indexing issues, and DivX/XviD direct freezes it up. Also, the MP4 codec it uses isn't widely supported by players -- even VLC had some issues with it.
It's not that it's bad, just a bit quirky.
