Video Editing

New Automated Options Make Video Editing Effortless for Everyone

Sept. 23, 2009 - Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced Adobe Premiere Elements 8 software for Windows, the newest version of the No. 1 selling consumer video-editing software.* This major release enables users to easily create incredible movies, offering automated "smart" options that take the work out of video editing, easy-to-apply professional-quality effects and a new Organizer to manage all media in one convenient location.

"It's become easier than ever to shoot video on the fly, but most people don't realize it's just as easy to take raw clips and turn them into a movie that will impress friends and family," said Doug Mack, vice president and general manager of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at Adobe. "We want to take the intimidation factor out of video editing and empower users to get creative and personalize their videos. With the new Organizer and automated technology available in Premiere Elements 8, we created a dashboard full of features that will drive video projects forward in just a few simple clicks."Read more

Adobe today announced major upgrades to its popular digital photo and video software - Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows and Mac and Adobe Premiere Elements 8 for Windows.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows features:

• Enhanced Organizer: easily manage media and find photo and video clips even faster than before.
• New Auto-Analyzer: automatically analyzes and tags media so users can quickly find content
• People Recognition: identifies people in photos, becoming more intelligent over time, as it learns to associate names and faces.
• Sync: now users can automatically synch media across multiple computers
• Photomerge Exposure: merge multiple shots of the same scene, with and without a flash
• Recompose: the new Recompose makes it easy to automatically resize photos without distorting the image.
• Quick Fix previews: visually choose the best color, contrast and lighting adjustments from a series of previews.
• Online Album: share photos and videos with the new interactive Online Album templates

Technology moves so quickly that almost everyone has analog (tape) and digital video they want to save and enjoy. Even with today's low-cost, high quality cameras and ubiquitous camphones, the results are usually less than great viewing quality.

Unless you're carrying a bank of photo lights around, the video is usually a little on the dark side. And no matter how hard you try to hold the camera steady, the video is shaky. Often the focus is a little off and there are video noise artifacts that make the final movie a little "uncomfortable" to watch, especially when everyone expects to watch theater quality videos of the kids events, family activities and special moments.

If you're converting old family/friends videotapes to digital, the problem becomes even worse. You not only have to handle all of the issues listed above, you also have video quality that is…well…VHS quality. Ten to 20 years ago it was fine, but once DVD movies were introduced it was easy to see that the quality could be better…a lot better. Read more

All of us have seen it with the oldest generation – technology has progressed, but their technological prowess has not, leaving them behind on things the youngest among us consider necessities. Of course, technology will keep progressing, and, barring tragedy, the young will themselves be the old one day. These two facts entail that keeping up with technology must be a priority for everyone, lest they be left behind.

With the widespread availability of broadband internet, video technology now holds a more prominent position in current internet and media projects. Unfortunately, few people are able to efficiently and effectively use this technology, as becoming proficient in video editing is difficult and time-consuming.

Enter Pinnacle Studio 12. This award-winning software makes the incredible quite achievable, and opens the doors of video editing to a much larger segment of the population. Able to import digital media (videos, photos, and audio) from a wide variety of sources, including DV, HDV and AVCHD camcorders, and digital still cameras, Pinnacle 12 is highly likely to be compatible with your preferred source of media. After you get your media uploaded, you can take advantage of Pinnacle's 18 video tracks and 80 preloaded templates to create your video. After you're finished, you'll be amazed at how any time-crunched novice video maker will be able to masquerade easily as a pro. Read more

Family memory keepers have increasingly done away with the digital shoebox and are sharing photos, videos and digital photo albums on home TVs and across the Internet. Memory keepers are usually married females who enjoy taking photos and videos (especially when children are involved) and are very comfortable in working with editing and sharing solutions such as Pinnacle Studio 12.

The needs of the camera/camcorder/content production user are no longer being met with a single solution. For example, Pinnacle’s research shows there were measurable differences among the age groups as well as male/female, married/single and the number of children in the households.

The company found that the female of the household is not only taking over the management of capturing family moments and memories, but also wanted to do more with them than simply leaving the images on memory cards or storing them on the family’s computer hard drive. Read more

December 17, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Just in time for the holidays, Roxio is introducing a new online service that enables consumers to create and share stunning multimedia slideshows on professionally produced DVDs. A perfect solution for last-minute shoppers, the new Roxio PhotoShow DVD service allows consumers to quickly turn personal photos and video clips into an expressive multimedia slideshow. Users can also create personalized disc and cover artwork based on a pre-designed style. Finalized projects are then produced, tested, packaged and shipped from a professional DVD production facility. The service is available today at www.roxio.com. DVDs usually cost $29.99; however, for a limited time, Roxio is offering a special savings coupon code (DVDOFFER) worth $10 off the purchase price. See an example slideshow at www.RoxioMemorableGifts.com.

"Roxio PhotoShow DVD turns still images and video clips into richly woven digital stories that convey the full emotion and feeling behind important family memories, milestones and events," said Matt DiMaria, general manager, Roxio division of Sonic Solution. "Not only an ideal solution for last minute holiday shoppers, Roxio PhotoShow DVDs are also a great way to share the season's events with those closest to us after the holidays are over." Read more

If you’re like us you’ve got a long holiday gift list and a short budget. Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales were fantastic but buying a consumer electronics product to give this year just didn’t seem right. We wanted to give something people would really like, really cherish. Money was important but it was really more about showing people we really cared.

Our son actually came up with the idea because he had begun the monumental task of saving all of the still analog photos and videos we’d taken over the past five – 10 years and was digitizing them to put on the family's Verbatim 1TB home server. It was great…huge capacity and supported all of the leading interfaces. Scanning all of the photos is time consuming but is necessary if you want to bring them into the 21st century. Converting VHS tapes to digital is a snap.

Our closet held stacks of tapes – birthdays, family outings, events with our folks, grandparents and the kids. We’ve known for a long time that there’s nothing permanent about tape and if we didn’t get the content digitized the moments, memories could simply…disappear! The special moments, the memories are suddenly…simply memories. Read more