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Adobe Premiere Elements 2021 19.0 (Torrent)

Pros

  • Clear, simple interface
  • Guided Edits ease basic and advanced projects
  • Lots of video effects
  • Solid text tools
  • Cross-platform support

Cons

  • Slow output rendering speed
  • No 360-degree VR or 3D editing
  • No multicam support
  • No screen recording capability
Adobe considers the audience for its consumer-targeted video editing software to be what it calls memory keepers, who tend to be women in their 40s documenting, embellishing, and sharing their special family moments. But really, anyone who wants to create compelling videos without the complexity of a professional application like Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro can take advantage of Premiere Elements. As well as being extremely easy to use, it lets you go fairly deep with multitrack and keyframe based editing—or you can ignore all that and use its more-automatic tools. The program trails PCMag Editors’ Choice, CyberLink PowerDirector, in the breadth of effects, rendering speed, and formats it supports, however.

Compatibility, Pricing, Setup

Premiere Elements is available for 64-bit editions of Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 (version 1809 or 1903 recommended) and macOS 10.12 through 10.14. I primarily review the Windows version here, though I have tested the software on an iMac, as well. You can get the program together with Photoshop Elements for $149.99 or as a standalone app for $99.99. These are one-time fees—no subscription needed. Note that Premiere Elements is not a part of Adobe Creative Cloud service. If you’re upgrading from a previous version, those prices drop to $119.99 and $79.99, respectively. A free trial gets you 30 days of full-featured program use, but any videos made with the trial get stamped with a watermark.

Adobe Premiere Elements' interfaceMake sure you have a fast Internet connection and a capacious hard drive before installing the program, as it requires at least 6GB of disk space. You also need a reasonably powerful machine with a multicore CPU of at least 2GHz, and at the very least 4GB of RAM and 5GB of available hard drive space. On Windows, the app requires SSE2 support on the CPU and a DirectX 9 or 10 graphics card with at least a 1280-by-800 resolution monitor. When you first launch the program, it asks if you want to send diagnostic information to Adobe.

What’s New in Premiere Elements

There are not many changes in the 2021 version, but the new mask selection tool with motion tracking is impressive. In addition to that, the update gets an editing speedup with GPU acceleration, 21 new background music tracks, and two new Guided Edits: Double Exposure, and Animated Mattes. More on those below.

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