![]() ![]() If the point was to find fun new ways of using the clips you have, the implementation just missed the boat. Granted, orange isn't your standard chromakey color, but in a consumer product, not everything that's shot is intentional. Even a simple color tolerance slider could have prevented the flag from showing through Dan Ackerman's skin here. ![]() However, Adobe provides no controls for you to tweak the results. ![]() When you drag a video with a (relatively) solid-colored background into the timeline or onto another video, the program asks if you want to treat it as a Videomerge clip and automatically combines them with the background chromakeyed out. On one hand, this Videomerge feature is dead simple to use. Using technology from Adobe's Ultra, Premiere Elements now suports rudimentary chromakeying. Adobe licenses it like everyone else, but didn't even bother to give it a similar interface to the rest of Premiere. Ditto for its basic SmartSound music-generation implementation. But when compared with innovations like Pinnacle Studio Plus 12's Montage themes, which allow for some really clever, sophisticated effects, and a friendly implementation for editing them, InstantMovie seems pretty basic and uninspiring. They're nice templates, and it does a good job. Its new InstantMovie basically rolls selected clips into prefab templates. The good news is that it handled every AVCHD file format on my hard disk-from a variety of Canon, Sony and Panasonic camcorders-without problems. It now includes AVCHD support, for which Adobe has lagged far behind its competitors for a long time. This version really feels like an attempt to catch-up to competitors. (For more on the online and mobile aspects of the Elements release, read our coverage on .) ![]() Adobe might as well have sold the space as an ad it's that annoying. The InstantMovie, Open Project and New Project options get relegated to a task bar that's relatively inconspicuous compared to the large, rotating slide show heralding the many benefits of the free and $40 Plus membership for (more project templates, remote access and 20GB-plus of storage space). Take, for instance, the Welcome screen, which is your first encounter with either one of the applications. "As with its sibling Adobe Photoshop Elements, with Premiere Elements Adobe pushes the Web subscription message a little too hard. Lori Grunin weighs in on that update, too: Premiere Elements 7 will see the bonus features in Elements 7 and raise them with new movie-making tools, support for AVCHD, and automatic video upload to YouTube. ![]()
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