Titles fly through the scene, twist and turn, and then settle down. This year's new guided edits are targeted to enhance social media entries.įreeze frames with motion titles: This guided edit walks you through the steps to create a freeze frame of the action and then adds an eye-catching motion-graphic title to the frame. Since the dawn of Elements, guided edits - easy-to-follow recipes for amateurs to achieve professional-looking results - have been a hallmark of the app. This tool works best on videos without a specific soundtrack, as opposed to voice narratives, demos or musical performances in which, despite the transitions, cuts did not sound as natural. I found the feature quick and easy to use, saving me from a lot of futzing around to find just the right composition. As with the Candid Moments feature, Premiere Elements sometimes had a different take on what was important in my videos, but it was not far off from what I'd pick. Within the timeline, the app automatically dims the suggested trims and lets you preview its handiwork before you make the final cut. Premiere Elements scrubs through your video to extract the boring parts, but you can tweak those results. Unfortunately, there's no way to 'teach' the Organizer which images you want and which you don't. A number of Auto Curate selections were uneven, as some overexposed and underexposed photos appeared among the best results. While the concept is solid, the execution sometimes left something to be desired.

The app's Smart Tag feature from last year now helps Auto Curate analyze image content. A slider gives you control over how many photos to include in the results, for use in both slideshows and videos.

The 2018 version of Elements debuts Auto Curate, an AI-derived machine learning feature, which analyzes photos for composition, exposure, focus and faces, selecting only a small number of the best images.

The Elements Organizer asset manager has seen some smart technical advances over the past couple of years, mostly in searching and tagging images, and now in the the kind of wall-to-wall image catalog popularized by Apple Photos, Flickr and Google Photos. While the Organizer's Auto Curate concept is solid, its execution in Premiere Elements sometimes left something to be desired.

It also powers the new Candid Moments and Smart Trim features, which automatically select the best parts of your videos without the need for boring, time-consuming scrubbing and snipping. Adobe doesn't mess around with its simple, easy-to-understand interface.Īdobe's machine learning framework boosts the program's organizational and editing smarts for functions like search and tagging.

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