It also adds Auto Tone and Vibrance-both handy for automatic corrections-which should be familiar to Photoshop users.Īdobe also adds a pan and zoom, which lets you move around and dive into still images, and it can automatically pan around to identified faces. While useful, I wish it had a way to do coarse changes on all three channels at once, then unlock them to fine-tune them individually. Adobe has added a new Three-Way Color Corrector, which splits corrections for highlights, midtones, and shadows. There are only a couple of significant new features in version 10. There's a bit of a learning curve to understanding even the basics for simple effects and transitions, but it's no worse-and no better-than most other video-editing software when it comes to ease of use. It uses a traditional video-editing interface, with both timeline and scene editing views. The application itself uses the same task-oriented architecture as Photoshop Elements, with Project, Edit, Disc Menus, and Share modes that are fairly straightforward. Via the Organizer you can now directly upload unedited videos to YouTube as well. And if you're planning on burning AVCHD discs, keep in mind that the software doesn't yet support version 2.0 of the spec, which allows for 1080/30p. And I'm still unhappy with the way Adobe handles AVCHD import it tries and fails to process all the ancillary files that are part of the directory structure, and doesn't give you the option to copy the entire file structure wholesale so that it can be played back or just burned as if it's a disc. Running the Auto Analyzer to get the video tagged can take a while, though. It allows for hierarchical tagging, as well as Smart Tags, which can automatically classify your media as high, medium, or low quality, as well as tag what it thinks is in focus, low contrast, blurred, and so on. But this does represent Adobe's first 64-bit port of the package-Windows only, unfortunately-which is an essential step for future development of the product.Īdobe has beefed up the Organizer a bit to improve its video support, since it's now serving Premiere Elements as well as Photoshop Elements. And this update to Adobe's consumer video-editing software is even less jingly than the image-editing package when it comes to new bells and whistles. While its sibling Photoshop Elements is turning 10, the younger Premiere Elements just gets the digits.

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