Welcome Esther, Based on what you you are doing - stay with Premiere Elements. The biggest difference between Elements and Pro is that Elements will take you right through to making a DVD or BR, and it does it very well :-) .
With Pro you need other programs like Encore and they do not come cheap. You will find many functions in Pro that you will never use so why pay for it. I would suggest though to possibly get the latest version of Element (I think it is 11). They say!? it handles AVCHD files better and has other improvements. Before you want to do more than Elements can do you have to get to a pretty high professional level. Enjoy making videos. Uwe > On 03/12/2012 3:32 PM, [email protected] > <mailto:k.smibert%40bigpond.com> wrote: > > Hello Esther, > > > > Congratulations on joining the ranks of Video Editors. > > Thank you, Kelvin! > > > 1/ Your camera is a great one. From extreme close up to zoom. I have > one, and in company with a DSLR I seem to have all bases covered. > > I have a very good dSLR as well, with the capability of taking video. > But the VIXIA beats the camera easily! > > > Perhaps the effective difference between Elements and pro, is that > the first tends to think for you (and does it well), whereas the most > of us on this forum using Prem Pro are stubborn enough to want to tell > the program what to do ....and make all the mistakes for ourselves. > > And I am stubborn enough to not want to continuously deal with zooming > in and out, with a different transition between each scene or with all > sorts of fancy add-ons. I like things simple. > The wedding video I was making for our son, was finished this afternoon > and burned to a DVD. I'm happy with the visual part of it, just have to > try and tone down the background noise some in a few places. > I used only one transition between clips, additive dissolve. Each > "chapter" begins with a still that zooms in. > That's it. Played it on the television, and except for some of the > sound, I am happy with it. My son better be, too! > > 3/ An up to date and powerful computer is essential for your > enjoyment or frustrations will occur. Editing is the biggest soaker-up > of computer ‘grunt’.. As someone pointed out. > > My computer was purchased after I had Premiere Elements and found it a > pain-you-know-where to work on my XP machine. It's now on a Win7 and > with 8GB memory and a TB hard drive, it works great. Can't remember the > other specs offhand, but think the processor is i-7 or something like > that. > > 4/ I am up to 7 G-grandkids ( to 10 years of age.) So a lot older > than you....Therefore you have many years of film making > enjoyment/frustration ahead of you. > > May catch up with you.... Our oldest granddaughter is getting married in > August ;-) > > Esther > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
