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Since Premiere Elements still doesn't offer image stabilization, Studio won these tests, as its automatic function eliminated most shakes without the distortion inherent in other techniques. But Studio's color correction proved superior to Premiere Elements, though Adobe's shadow/highlight tool proved more adept at fixing back-lit video. In chroma-key trials, Premiere Elements removed the key color more effectively and produced smoother edges. While Premiere Elements doesn't match Studio's flexibility in DVD design and navigational, its design templates are far superior, and users seeking to create a DVD from a canned template will find Premiere Elements easier to use.

Also new is support for Dolby Digital audio output as well as for Return to Menu flags, which send viewers back to the main menu after playing sections of the video. You can also animate and change the location of any button in a menu and change the font, font size, color, and location of menu titles and text buttons. On the DVD authoring front, you can now add either a still image or video background to any or all menus in the project, and add background audio. As with Studio, Premiere Elements can now retrieve videos from non-copy-protected DVDs, an increasingly useful feature now that most video projects are rendered to DVD. Premiere Elements lacks a real-time audio mixer, however, one of the few tools removed from Premiere Pro that would be truly useful to a home videographer.ДЄdobe also added a Media Downloader module for downloading video clips from digital still cameras, cell phones, and the like. For example, with Studio's pan-and-zoom controls, you set one key frame for zoom and position, while with Premiere Elements, you control these parameters separately, which simplifies complex effects. Once on the timeline, you'll find Premiere Elements' editing tools a model of precision. We adore the organizational capabilities of Premiere Elements' content bins, which are far superior to Studio's libraries, but wish they could match Studio's ability to split and annotate video files before dragging them to the timeline.

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If you drag the Effects and Effects Properties panels into the project window and close the History window, you're down to an exceptionally clean three-window interface, though most configuration screens remain scarily reminiscent of the professional controls of Premiere Pro.ДЄdobe drives workflow with four function-specific taskbars (Capture, Edit, Titles, DVD), each with a custom interface.

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The default view, with six open windows, is too busy for our liking, but the program supports nested windows selectable via tabs. The most significant interface tweak is a change from floating windows to an adjustable embedded-window arrangement, which lets you drag any window to the desired size without introducing clutter. While showing definite improvement, the program still trails Studio in usability and consumer-oriented features. But effect and transition libraries are largely unchanged, though some third party options are available. In Version 2, Adobe addressed usability, enhanced DVD-authoring capabilities significantly, and added video import support for a range of video devices. Also unavailable were an audio mixer, narration tools, and the ability to create an MTV-like video production automatically and synchronize it to background music. On the other hand, if you wanted to stabilize handheld video, insert champagne popping transitions between wedding scenes, or add custom-length royalty-free island music to your beach vacation videos, you couldn't do it. In some areas this approach paid dividends, as with Adobe's awesome shadow/highlight tool (the industry's best for curing back-lit videos) and great chroma-keying quality. This meant a cluttered, floating-window interface advanced, often obscure controls designed for professionals rather than consumers and libraries of effects and transitions more suitable for business projects than home movies.

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