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Adobe Software Review - Part 2
Jul 14 2009, 11:49 AM EDT | Post edited: Jul 14 2009, 11:49 AM EDT
The CS4 suite will let you produce video that is just as good as you see on broadcast television, with all the animation, transition and post-production tools they use. Don't buy video loops, just make them in After Effects. Don't buy themekits (unless you really like the footage and you can't get it), just make them. Heck, you don't even have to pay for graphic design elements for bulletins anymore, you can just make them yourself.

Premiere Pro (the upgrade for Premiere Elements) seems more stable and easier to work in once you figure it out. The titling and graphics can be seamlessly off-loaded to After Effects which are far easier to use and can do way more than the titling features in Premiere Elements, although you can still do the basic stuff in Premiere Pro. The suite can take a video and even generate a transcript, although you'd still have to put it in the bottom third and check it for accuracy.

A complex project you'd try to do in Windows Movie Maker might take a month of work, and you'd be disappointed with the results. That project would take a week in Premiere Elements, and look decent. The same thing would take a day in CS4 and could look like you paid $10,000 to make it happen. If serious video is what you need, get the professional tools that make professional-looking output possible. Do you find this valuable?    
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