What's new in Adobe Premiere Elements 2024
Oct 19, 2023
- UI Modernization:
- Enjoy a whole new editing experience with a fresh look.
- Color Match:
- Match color to create a fresh new vibe.
- Highlight Reel:
- Show off the good stuff with automatic Highlight Reels. Powered by Adobe Sensei*
- Audio Effects:
- Enhance your storytelling with new audio effects.
- New graphics:
- Punch up your videos with fun new graphics.
- Other New Features and Enhancements:
- Auto sync. (English-only beta)
- Enjoy accelerated launch times in Adobe Premiere Elements.
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 2023 (Sep 29, 2022)
- Artistic Effects:
- Transform your clips with effects inspired by famous works of art or popular art styles. Just like with Photoshop Elements, you can click to add an amazing Artistic Effect. Powered by Adobe Sensei*
- New and Refreshed Content:
- Discover updated creative content like all-new audio tracks and modern slideshow templates to bring a new feel and energy to your videos.
- Apple silicon Native Support:
- With full support for Apple M1 chip systems or newer, you’ll enjoy up to 78% faster performance on Mac computers.
- Performance Improvements:
- Enjoy up to 50% faster installation and up to 72% faster launch times.
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 2022 (Oct 8, 2021)
- Pick the perfect aspect ratio:
- Edit and export your videos in social-friendly vertical or square aspect ratios without losing content. Add motion titles, mattes, and backgrounds designed for non-horizontal videos, too.
- Auto-reframe your subject:
- Easily resize your videos for social media and more while keeping the most important part of the action in the frame. Works great for clips with a lot of movement, like a kid’s birthday party or a sporting event.
- Add fun animated overlays:
- Jazz up any video with flitting butterflies, encircling hearts, and other beautiful and whimsical animations. Create a whole new look in a few quick steps.
- Adjust shadows and highlights:
- Easily reveal hidden details in the darkest or brightest areas of your videos so there’s more to see in every scene.
- Explore new slideshow styles:
- Show off your photos and videos and tell your stories with new animated slideshow templates in a range of great-looking styles.
- Compress video files for easy sharing:
- Use a simple slider to reduce the size of your movies so you can easily upload them to web and social sites, send them in text messages, and more.
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 2021 (Oct 9, 2020)
- Edit, create, and organize more easily than ever. Get artistic by revealing your videos with new animated matte overlays and make a little movie magic with double exposures. Select an object or area f your video to easily apply an effect that tracks throughout a video, like brightening the subject or blurring the background. With GPU accelerated performance, see high-quality playback of many effects and transitions without having to render first. This release also brings to you new soundtracks to apply to your videos and bring them to life.
- Select object:
- Select specific object or area of your video and easily apply an effect that tracks throughout the video, like brightening the subject or blurring the background.
- Double Exposure- Guided Edit:
- Make a little movie magic with double exposures. Just follow the simple steps to play a video within a photo and get the best of both worlds.
- Animated Mattes- Guided Edit:
- Get artistic by revealing your video with animated matte overlays. Apply different shapes and animation styles to full videos, select scenes, and use as transitions.
- GPU accelerated rendering:
- See high-quality playback of many awesome effects without rendering first and crop your videos faster with the new GPU accelerated performance.
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 2018 (Oct 4, 2017)
- Candid Moments:
- Effortlessly extract candid photos!
- Wish you could capture those memorable moments in your videos as photos? Now you can automatically extract great photos from your raw video clip.
- The Candid Moments feature of Premiere Elements automatically extracts those moments in the form of photos for you. Once you have these candid photo moments, you can save them to your computer, export them to the project timeline for editing, or create a slideshow.
- Smart Trim:
- Automatically trim the bad and keep the good!
- Do you find it difficult and tedious to trim your video? Trimming a raw video clip has never been easier – Use the new improved Smart Trim tool to find and bring together the best scenes based on the style of your video. Auto Smart Trim enables you to efficiently extract and combine good-quality, interesting scenes from your video clip.
- Create a freeze frame with a motion title guided edit:
- Make the moments in your video stand out!
- Create a freeze frame of an action in your video and then add an eye-catching motion title. Use this guided edit to make the moments in your video clip stand out by freezing the frame and adding a motion title to it.
- Create Bounce Back Effect guided edit:
- Create fun bounce-back effects!
- Use this guided edit to make a segment of your video run forward and backward repetitively. Export your bounce-back effect as an animated GIF (Windows) or a short video clip.
- Fix action cam footage guided edit:
- Fix lens distortions in your action cam footage!
- Use this guided edit to fix the video footages captured using action cameras. Quickly reduce the length of cam footage using Smart Trim, bring out those bright colors using Color Correction, and fix the fish eye bulge using the Lens Distortion effect.
- Create an animated social post guided edit:
- Create a short visual story and share on social media!
- Animated social post is a postable effect that allows you to add animated text and titles to your videos and photos. You can then customize the font style, position, and animation of the text to quickly create short videos that are ready to be shared on social media, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Vimeo.
- Project-specific online presets:
- Premiere Elements now displays online presets based on the type of project. For example, for an NTSC project, only NTSC presets are displayed, and for a PAL project, only PAL presets are displayed. Also, the option of Full HD presets has been added for sharing on Facebook and Vimeo.
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 15.0 (Oct 6, 2016)
- Layer Adjustment Guided Edit:
- Another opportunity to impress people with your editing chops. This new Guided Edit makes it easy to give your movie a signature look by applying effects across multiple clips or your entire movie at once.
- Haze Removal:
- You loved it in Photoshop Elements and now we’re bringing it to Premiere Elements. New Haze Removal enables you to easily remove haze to make the background of your scenes as crisp as what’s up front.
- Remix:
- We’ve eliminated the frustration of matching different length music files with your video clips. Pick any music file, and it can be easily remixed to match the length of your movie with a natural sound and transition so you never lose the soul of your audio.
- Face Detection:
- We’ve added face detection to Smart Trim, Favorite Moments and Pan and Zoom, giving priority to footage of what matters most – the people in your videos – when suggesting places to trim. With face detection, you’ll get a great movie of friends and family without that unnecessary footage.
- Video Collage:
- create dynamic collages with photos and videos that show many memories at once. A fun and creative way for sharing on Facebook, YouTube, and other social sites.
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 14.0 (Sep 25, 2015)
- What’s new in Premiere Elements:
- Tell dazzling stories with motion titles: When you’ve made a great movie, why not start it off right? Grab attention with new, professional-looking motion titles. Premiere Elements makes it easy to animate text and graphics using built-in presets.
- Color Pop Guided Edit for instant wow: Color Pop for photos was a big hit last year, so we added a Guided Edit for Premiere Elements this year. Create some visual drama by popping one or more colors in a scene and pushing everything else to black-and-white. You can fine-tune for hue, saturation and luminance, too. Elements walks you through it step by step.
- Play with time using Guided Edits: Get step-by-step help creating slow-motion effects that add emphasis, suspense or drama. Or, get guidance with adding fast-motion effects that speed up your story and create energy, excitement or fun.
- Go beyond HD with 4K: If you’ve got a 4K Ultra HD video camera and/or TV, you know what all the fuss is about. Now you can use Premiere Elements to edit and view 4K movies for the ultimate cinematic experience.
- Sound your best: Audio sets your movie’s mood, and now it’s easier than ever to fine-tune your sound. We’ve brought all of the audio features together in one place so they’re easy to find, and a new toggle screen lets you focus on just audio or video parts of a clip as needed.
- Easily export optimized movies in multiple formats: Now when you’re ready to export your movie, Premiere Elements recommends settings for you. That way you get a movie that looks great on whatever device or screen you choose, from iPads, iPods and other smartphones to big-screen 4K and HD TVs.
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 13.0 (Sep 24, 2014)
- Premiere Elements 13 helps you discover how to make quick movies, reduce camera shakiness and share with family and friends. And when you’ve mastered the basics, Premiere Elements can take you to the next level with built in Guided Edits, and access to some very powerful expert features.
- Favorite moments:
- Instead of trimming out what you don’t want from your video, how about focusing on the good stuff? We’ve made it really easy to choose the best moments from your clips and pull them together into a short movie that’s great for sharing.
- Easily tell your big life stories with Video Story:
- Do justice to weddings, birthdays, and other big life events. Just pick the story type, grab clips for each chapter, and Premiere Elements does the rest—trimming, transitions, and music based on the mood you choose.
- Get the shakes out with Video Stabilizer:
- Make the footage you capture with action cameras and smartphones less shaky and more awesome.
- New Guided edits make it easy to create fun movies:
- add motion inside your movie titles to create a fun look
- punch up the drama with effects or blurs that draw attention to one part of your video
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 12.0 (Sep 24, 2013)
- NEW:
- Take your videos with you wherever you go:
- Easily view, relive, and share your Elements videos on your smartphone or tablet. And finally — unlock the photos from your mobile device, and see them in your Elements albums back at home.
- Learn as you use:
- Use Guided Edits to learn advanced editing techniques with built-in video tutorials. Build your moviemaking savvy in no time.
- ENHANCED:
- Discover a friendly and intuitive environment:
- Organize, edit, enhance, and share more quickly and easily thanks to big, bold icons; a helpful Action bar; and the ability to choose from Quick and Expert editing modes to fit your needs.
- Get Hollywood effects and styles:
- Discover more FilmLooks (Comic, Trinity, Yesteryear, Cross Process) to add Hollywood effects and styles to your movies.
- Add music to your movies:
- Enhance your video with over 50 musical scores. Use over 250 sound effects to add depth and drama to your movies.
- Spotlight your subject:
- Add graphics, text, and effects that move with the subject using motion tracking.
- Share your stories:
- Upload your finished movies to Vimeo, YouTube, or your personal website. Adobe Premiere Elements will optimize and format your movie for specific destinations, so your movies always look great. Now, easily share your Elements movies in shared albums, and view them on your smartphone or tablet.
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 11.0 (Sep 25, 2012)
- An entirely new and improved user interface including many of the same updates found in Photoshop Elements 11
- Add polish with a wide range of great-looking effects, transitions, themes, titles, disc menus, and professional-level effects and sound
- Give videos Hollywood movie styles with FilmLooks; easily apply slow and fast motion effects; dial-in colors with slider controls; effortlessly integrate blends for seamless transitions; and make adjustments with Quick Presets
- Show off finished creations with integrated video sharing on Vimeo
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 10.0 (Sep 27, 2011)
- Turn photos into entertaining movies:
- Easily bring your photos to life using customized pan and zoom motions that add drama or fun to fit your story. Automated options can even do the work of finding faces and panning and zooming to them.
- Easily correct or enhance color:
- Automatically boost color tone and vibrance without affecting skin tones, or use sliders to adjust color with complete control. You can also independently adjust color in highlights, shadows, and midtones for perfect color throughout your movie.
- Get HD quality on standard DVDs:
- Burn HD-quality movies to affordable DVD discs using standard burners.
- Quickly share on popular sites:
- Import video clips and immediately share them on Facebook and YouTube, and quickly share finished movies on Facebook.1
- Tag photos faster using your Facebook Friends list:
- Use your Facebook Friends list to quickly tag faces in your photos and easily share them on Facebook.
- Quickly find photos of specific things:
- Want to find shots that include your surfboard, your grandma's house, or the Eiffel Tower? Let Object Search automatically find your photos based on what's in them.
- Export in AVCHD format:
- Share movies in high-quality AVCHD format.
- Enhance your audio on Mac:
- Editing on a Mac? Now you can use SmartSound to add a variety of musical soundtracks that automatically adjust to perfectly match the length of your movie.
- Get fresh looks with new creative options:
- Enhance the visual appeal of your movies with new movie themes, Online Album templates, and more
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 9.0.1 (Jan 6, 2011)
- This update improves stability and consists of the fixes for some of the issues as reported by the users through various forums. Also, this update provides an improved importing of media on Mac.
- This update resolves the following issues:
- Crash on Exit after Full Screen view
- Crashes on launch from Standard user.
- Provides fix for "Import from iPhoto"
- Other Bug Fixes
New in Adobe Premiere Elements 9.0 (Sep 21, 2010)
- Enhance your movies with professional flair:
- Use state-of-the-art effects options to enhance your movies with eye-catching visual effects and professional-quality audio. (Access more effects and get ongoing deliveries with Plus.)
- Jazz up the action:
- Give your movie an eye-catching cartoon look. Choose from a variety of animation styles, and customize as you wish.
- Share in an exciting new way on the web:
- Debut your movie with a convenient, interactive web DVD viewing experience. Easily share your movie — complete with a scene index and chapter menus — on Photoshop.com or your own website.
- Quickly share videos and photos on Facebook:
- Conveniently share videos and photos on Facebook directly from the Organizer, which automatically optimizes your media so it looks its best.
- Get creative inspiration:
- Bring your ideas to life with relevant how-tos that appear just when you need them. (Access more how-tos and get ongoing deliveries with Plus.)
- Easily fix audio problems:
- Easily reduce background noise and fix problems with audio volume and clarity so your movie has high-quality sound from start to finish.
- Enjoy support for popular cameras:
- Easily bring in video from compact camcorders like Flip cameras as well as from DSLR still cameras.
- Enjoy optimized HD editing:
- Experience fluid responsiveness and high performance when editing video, even HD.
- Now available for Mac OS:
- Whether you use Mac OS or Windows, you can now use the #1 selling consumer video-editing software† to easily create incredible home movies.