Presenting Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0, with everything you need to create videos that thrill your friends and family. The perfect combination of superior control, ease of use, and reliability, Premiere Elements automates tedious tasks so you can be creative more quickly. Import video clips from all of your digital video devices, then experiment with hundreds of professional transitions and effects to grab your audience. Burn your videos to DVD, complete with custom menus for that personal touch, or output them for the Web, VHS and Microsoft Mobile Media players to wow your audience anywhere.

Action!Whether you’re brand new to moviemaking or have just outgrown the limitations of most home video editing software, Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 makes it easy to produce great results, with its intuitive interface, automated tasks, and superior editing capabilities, combined to bring you an exceptionally high level of creative control.

Rely on one-click transfer

Getting your video footage into your computer is a snap with Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0. Simply plug your DV camcorder into your computer—using an IEEE 1394 (FireWire, i.LINK) connection—to instantly begin the one-step process of transferring your video direct to the Timeline. You can also transfer over USB with newer DV camcorders that support “DV via USB.” Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 automatically finds all the footage on your tape, separates your clips into scenes, and presents them in order, ready for editing. Saving time on tasks like video transfer means you can concentrate instead on the fun of creating your video.

Go from DV camcorder to DVD— With the combination of automated transfer of your video to the Timeline, gapless editing, and automatic DVD creation, you can easily go from your DV camcorder to a finished DVD in just a few clicks!

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Transfer video direct to the Timeline in one simple step with the advanced control of the Capture panel.Transfer video direct to the Timeline in one simple step with the advanced control of the Capture panel.

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Feature HighlightsCreate videos like a famous director and amaze your family and friends

Top Features in Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0

Automatic USB/FireWire DV video transfer (page 1)

Media Downloader for easy transfer of all media (page 2)

Adaptable DVD Templates with Motion Menus (page 8)

Support for all of your video devices (page 2)

Flexible, easy-to-use workspace (page 3)

Powerful time-variable effects and transitions (page 5)

Effect and transition previews (page 5)

Context-sensitive Properties panel (page 5)Project Archiver (page 4)Professional quality graphic titles and rolling credits (page 6)Professional-quality Dolby sound (page 7)Preview on TV (page 4)

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For those already familiar with Premiere Elements:

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Enjoy automatic scene detection—Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 is smart. While capturing your video, the application watches for the moments on the tape where you stopped and restarted recording, and uses those breaks to determine the size of each scene. When the transfer is complete, you are ready for editing, with no need to manually break your footage into separate clips.Bridge timecode gaps automatically—It’s common to shoot video, review it, and return to where you left off to start recording again. In the process, you end up creating a gap between the older and newer footage. Unlike most applications, Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 understands how real people shoot video, and “looks ahead” to see if there is more footage to transfer. No more aborted transfers or manual restarts, and faster editing as a result.Capture direct to the Timeline—Why should you have to manually drag scenes to an editing space after capture? With Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0, you don’t—as your video transfers from your DV camcorder, your clips are automatically arranged on the Timeline in the order you shot them. Go from camcorder to editing, with no additional preparation required.

Transfer DV via USB

Premiere Elements 2.0 keeps you ahead of the pack, with full DV-quality video transfer over USB2 for newer DV camcorders that support DV-via-USB, and of course you can still use FireWire for other camcorders. Visit www.adobe.com/products/premiereel/main.html for information about new cameras with USB Video Class/USB 2.0 high speed transfer support.

Import video from non-DV devices

Use the new Media Downloader to easily transfer video from the widest variety of non-DV devices:

VHS—via DV camcorder or AV/DV converter.DVD—from DVD camcorders, set top recorders or discs not protected by CSS encryption or Dolby professional audio encoding.Digital still cameras—with video capture in MPEG1, 3GP, ASF, MPEG4, AVI, or MOV.Mobile phones—in 3GP, ASF, or MPEG4.Video hybrid devices—such as the Panasonic D-Snap, Sanyo Xacti and JVC Everio.

Build a richer video story with all the footage you have available, no matter the source.

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Easily find any point on a DV camcorder tape when you only want to transfer that section—the Capture panel controls can remotely operate your DV camcorder.

Easily find any point on a DV camcorder tape when you only want to transfer that section—the Capture panel controls can remotely operate your DV camcorder.

With capture direct to the Timeline, you can get from raw video to finished movie faster and more easily.With capture direct to the Timeline, you can get from raw video to finished movie faster and more easily.

Supported FormatsPremiere Elements 2.0 supports the import of most multimedia file formats, including:

Video3GP (mobile phones)ASF AVIDVDVD (.vob)MOD (JVC Everio)MPEG-1MPEG-2MPEG-4QuickTime Windows Media

AudioAIFFAVIDolby (AC3)MP3QuickTimeWAVWMA

Still GraphicsBMP JPEGPSDTIFF

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Keep your tools at your fingertips with a self-adjusting, task-driven workspace

The Premiere Elements 2.0 window is made up of a set of interlocking panels instead of free-floating palettes. As you adjust the size of one panel, the others automatically adjust to fill in the space or get out of the way. Need to zoom in on the action? Increase the monitor preview size and watch the other panels automatically adjust around it. You’ll never lose sight of a panel because it can’t get lost behind others. Use the navigation bar buttons to quickly switch panel arrangements to suit the natural workflow of video production—moving you easily from transfer to editing and adding special effects, creating titles and DVD menus, and burning your DVD or exporting to formats perfect for Web streaming or e-mail. Plus, individual tool cursors intelligently change to give you instant feedback on the task at hand, and the context-sensitive Properties panel always provides the right options for whatever element you select.

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A. Find the right effect or transition more easily with visual previews in the Transition and Effects panel.

B. Drag at the border of any two panels and let the self-adjusting workspace resize the others automatically.

C. Switch between task-oriented panel arrangements with one click in the navigation bar.

D. Easily adjust the options for any element in the context-sensitive Properties panel.

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The new Premiere Elements 2.0 workspace makes creating your next movie easier and more fun.

A. Find the right effect or transition more easily with visual previews in the Transition and Effects panel.

B. Drag at the border of any two panels and let the self-adjusting workspace resize the others automatically.

C. Switch between task-oriented panel arrangements with one click in the navigation bar.

D. Easily adjust the options for any element in the context-sensitive Properties panel.

The navigation bar gives you quick access to the panel arrangements that best suit each step of the moviemaking process.

The navigation bar gives you quick access to the panel arrangements that best suit each step of the moviemaking process.

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Cut!Once you’ve shot your video and transferred the clips to the Timeline, it’s time to edit your video. One click of the Edit button arranges the panels and tools you’ll need for easy editing.

Enjoy no-fuss, gapless editing

Whenever you trim, rearrange, or delete scenes, Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 automatically shifts the video clips to fill in any gaps, saving you the time and tedium of readjusting your footage.

See you changes in realtime, all the time

No more waiting for footage to render—with realtime editing, you see the changes as you make them. Preview your edits and effects without any laborious rendering delay.

Preview live on TV

See your finished video as your audience will, and feel confident you’ve captured your vision. Enjoy no-render realtime previewing of your video editing, titling and DVD menu creation, on any TV connected via USB or FireWire. Make sure it will look the way you want, long before burning the completed video to DVD.

Take control of still images

Premiere Elements 2.0 makes it even easier to create dynamic multimedia slide shows and movie projects with comprehensive still image control. All of the same editing power and control you enjoy with video clips can be easily applied to still image sequences as well. Fade audio and video in or out with a simple right-click or with the new Properties panel. Rotate stills 90 degrees in either direction, and change the duration for multiple still images on the Timeline at once. Switch images on the beat of your audio tracks, and easily apply advanced pan-and-zoom effects. You can send photos and slide shows from Photoshop Elements 4.0 directly to the Premiere Elements 2.0 Timeline, and even select a group of images in the Media panel and create an advanced slide show with a simple menu command. With Premiere Elements 2.0, it’s easy to make your photos the stars of the show.

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Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 makes it simple to create your video, with context sensitive feedback in the Monitor (A), the new fast access Split Clip button (B), cursors that indicate direction and size of edit (C) and live tips in the status line (D) .

A Find edit points more easily—the Monitor displays the changing border between clips as you drag the edit point in the Timeline.

B Fine tune effects on any part of a single clip, by splitting it into two parts with the new Split Clip button.

C Trimming a clip is as simple as dragging clip borders in the Timeline.

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Rewind & fast forward your editing

Experiment freely—changing your mind well into a project is painless with Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0.

The new Project Archiver lets you easily move projects from one PC to another, or to archive a finished project in a version you can still edit later. Auto Save features and multiple levels of undo and redo let you step backwards and forwards through your editing, without worrying about mistakes or losing your work.The exclusive, familiar Adobe History panel always lets you check your editing steps, and jump backwards or forwards through them, as far as you want with a single click. Test a series of edits, transitions, effects—if you decide you don’t like them, one click returns to an earlier editing point, for as long as the project stays open.

Make it perfect for every display

Transfer, edit and export your videos in the 4:3 aspect ratio for normal TV sets, or use 16:9 for the state-of-the-art widescreen displays of today, and tomorrow.

Work as fast as you want

The Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 engine works under the hood to leverage the state-of-the-art technology built into the latest Windows XP computers, including full support for the advanced multithreading and hyperthreading technologies built into the newest Intel® Pentium® 4-based computers.

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Special Effects!Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 comes loaded with hundreds of presets, effects, and transitions, for efficient creative control and professional quality in all your videos. Simply drag from the Effects and Transitions panel to the Timeline.

Use professional quality presets—Stunning special effects, ready to use in a snap, including lighting, picture-in-picture, lens filters, and image pan (the “Ken Burns Effect”). Presets give you amazing effects in a few clicks that could take hours to create on your own.

Add video and audio effects—Get that Hollywood polish instantly. Use them as they are, or creatively customize them in the Properties window, for eye-catching effects, footage quality enhancement, and more.

Enjoy simple drag and drop transitions—Dissolve, fade and wipe between scenes with style, including several that leverage the power of your supported graphics card.

Put your clips in motion—Quickly and easily make your clips, titles and graphics grow, shrink, spin and move anywhere on the screen. Create cinematic moving picture-in-picture and floating title effects that will grab your audience.

Pick the right transition or effect—Check the effect thumbnail or moving transition thumbnail to easily decide which of the hundreds of options works best for you, before you drag them to the Timeline.

Enjoy advanced control when you want it

Turn to the context-sensitive Properties panel for advanced control over any effect, with precision adjustment for every setting. Set a picture-in-picture to fade in over the course of a clip, and slide off the screen later. You decide exactly when and where effects are applied, and how they change over time. You can even save your customized effects as new presets, so you can easily use them again whenever you like.

Create slow and fast motion — fast!

Simply by dragging a clip in the Timeline, you can stretch the clip to create dramatic slow-motion moments, or shrink the clip to produce hilarious fast-motion scenes.

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The context-sensitive Properties panel gives you precise control over every element in your movie.

The context-sensitive Properties panel gives you precise control over every element in your movie.

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Titles for all occasionsEnjoy exciting, eye-catching title templates and credits, with special effects and motion, in looks to suit any occasion and any video. Just add your text!

Start with beautiful templates for all

occasions—Complete with type style, graphics and frames, these templates are terrific for birthdays, weddings and all the special events in your life, and are easily paired with their matching DVD menu styles. Credit the cast—Easily create your own rolling, crawling or still credits and titles in a broad choice of fonts, sizes, and colors. Incorporate imported graphics and enhance the title with the onboard drawing tools in Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0. Creating custom templates is easier than ever in the convenient context-sensitive Properties panel.Create broadcast-quality titles—The professional quality Premiere Elements 2.0 title engine gives you the finest quality screen text possible.Build title styles easily—Add shadows, glows and other effects to your screen text, and preview them in realtime as you create them. Then save your styles as new presets for future use.Choose from over �0 included Adobe fonts—Specially selected for use in titles and rolling credits.Leverage the power of Photoshop Elements—Instantly create a new, correctly-sized Photoshop Elements image you can use as a new title in Premiere Elements 2.0.Enjoy more efficient title organization—Titles are now saved within your video project, so you no longer have to track or find separate title files on your hard drive.

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Choose a title template, create your credits, then add DVD menus in the matching style. The moviemaking process is easy and integrated in Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0.

Choose a title template, create your credits, then add DVD menus in the matching style. The moviemaking process is easy and integrated in Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0.

Great titles fast—start with templates, then customize them as much as you like, with the familiar Adobe text and shape tools, and the convenient Titler Styles panel.Great titles fast—start with templates, then customize them as much as you like, with the familiar Adobe text and shape tools, and the convenient Titler Styles panel.

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Sensational Sound!Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 takes as much care with the audio of your movie as it does with the video. You’ll enjoy full compatibility with the latest standards, including Dolby stereo, and a full complement of audio editing and enhancement features.

Hear the difference of Dolby Stereo—Enjoy the advantage of Dolby stereo support on import and export. Professional quality Dolby compression means full quality audio in less space on the DVD, leaving more space for even higher quality video.

Easily edit multiple soundtracks—Sweeten your video with up to 99 audio tracks to smoothly mix ambient sound, special effects, background music and narration. Easily crossfade and overlay your audio, for a video soundtrack that is as richly detailed as you choose.

Enjoy full Timeline control—View the waveform of your soundtrack and easily adjust your audio mix right in the Timeline, for simple, effective sound control. Resize audio tracks for more waveform detail, and zoom in to even the single frame level so you can easily find and delete pops, clicks or other unwanted noise. You can also easily fade audio in or out, using either a simple right-click in the Timeline, or in the new Properties panel.

Add comprehensive audio effects—Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 includes a full suite of audio filters, effects and transitions, so you can adjust flaws in the original sound, create great mixes, and enhance any audio source.

Match the beat—Add music to your project, then use the waveform display to cut your video clips to match the beat.

Rely on industry standard sound support—Import audio clips in any of a range of standard audio formats, including AIFF, AVI, Dolby AC3, MP3, QuickTime, WAV, and WMA.

Bend the pitch—Create hilarious speed-talking chipmunks or ominous slow-talking bears by slowing or speeding the pace of an audio clip. You can match the audio speed to the video when you create a slow or fast motion clip, or keep the pitch constant on the soundtrack, even if the video is speeding along. Like any movie director, the control and choice are always yours.

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Dolby 5.1 audio tracks will be converted to Dolby stereo on import. Premiere Elements 2.0 will not import Dolby Professional audio from protected sources such as Hollywood DVD movies.

Dolby 5.1 audio tracks will be converted to Dolby stereo on import. Premiere Elements 2.0 will not import Dolby Professional audio from protected sources such as Hollywood DVD movies.

Total audio control is yours on the Timeline, with up to 99 audio tracks for a soundtrack as rich as you want.Total audio control is yours on the Timeline, with up to 99 audio tracks for a soundtrack as rich as you want.

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Show Time!Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 lets you show your videos any way you like. Create a DVD with custom menus, a VHS tape, or export an optimized file for the Web, e-mail, portable media devices and players, and mobile phones.

Easily create DVDs

From custom menus to final burn, Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 makes it simple to create DVDs that are fun to share and convenient to watch.

Create DVDs automatically—Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 smoothly generates your finished DVD, with a main menu and scene index menus created for you, and automatically linked to your scenes.Start with professionally designed templates—

Choose from dozens of built-in templates, including many brand new templates, some complete with motion menus and audio backgrounds. Included templates come in themes perfect for all occasions, each featuring main menu and scenes menu pairings to easily create the most complex DVD menus.Personalize your DVDs—Create your own customized DVD menu by adding your own background image with your favorite audio soundtrack, or go all out with by creating your own motion menu with a favorite video clip. Add bonus material, your own “Director’s Cut,” the “Making Of” and some “easter eggs.” Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 makes it easy to create Hollywood-style DVDs.Create menus that move—Enjoy the added impact of full-motion DVD menus, backgrounds and buttons with custom audio. With animated scene menu buttons, your audience will see a mini-movie thumbnail that previews the scene.Make it perfect every time—

Preview your navigation menus, buttons, and features on an attached TV set, to see how they’ll appear to the audience before you burn your movie to DVD.

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A wide variety of themed DVD menu templates —some with motion menus and audio backgrounds—make short work of creating Hollywood-style DVDs.

A wide variety of themed DVD menu templates —some with motion menus and audio backgrounds—make short work of creating Hollywood-style DVDs.

The Preview DVD window lets you preview the experience of watching your finished video on TV, before you burn your disc.The Preview DVD window lets you preview the experience of watching your finished video on TV, before you burn your disc.

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Mastering your video

Enjoy support for dual-layer DVDs—Go long. Get up to four hours of highest quality video on a single disc, with new support for dual-layer DVD burners.Maximize DVD quality automatically—No more guesswork! Premiere Elements 2.0 automatically saves your video at the maximum possible quality to fit on the DVD media.Output to international standards—Share your videos with friends and family around the globe with a single click. Premiere Elements 2.0 saves your DVD in NTSC format for the Americas and Japan, or PAL for Europe and most other countries. Get the wide view—Premiere Elements 2.0 supports both the standard 4:3 TV aspect ratio and the 16:9 full widescreen view, just like the newest Hollywood movies, and perfect for your new widescreen LCD or plasma TV. Take your movies on the road—Easily transfer your finished movies to portable video players and thrill your audience anytime, anywhere, with simple built-in presets for output to Microsoft PlayForSure portable DVD players.Export to VHS—Use your DV camcorder to connect a VCR to your computer, and let Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 record your video directly onto any VHS tape.Easily create movies suitable for Web and e-mail—Choose from standard Windows Media and QuickTime formats to automatically optimize and output your video in a size suitable for display over the Web or transported by e-mail, including to mobile phones and handheld computers.Enjoy total flexibility with your movie projects—Use the Project Archiver to easily transport your movie projects intact. Move a project to another PC, complete with all needed files. Or archive just the project and your used footage in a folder that’s easy to back up. A project archive is always ready to edit, when you want to create a new version, add extra video, or change titles. A DVD is forever, but a project archive is forever flexible!

Help When You Need ItWith automatic video transfer, editing and DVD creation features, Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 can take you from DV camcorder to Hollywood-style DVD in a few steps. You don’t have to be an expert to look like a pro, and there are many features to help you move to the next moviemaking level.

Welcome to Premiere Elements 2.0—From the start, Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 makes it easier to get to that final movie. The Welcome Screen provides a simple, efficient entry point to your new or recent video projects, and an easy to follow, step-by-step tutorial to get you up to speed fast.

Get Flexible Help—The powerful Help system in Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 always provides the most relevant answers to your questions, with full access to onboard and online resources, wild card searches, and automatically categorized results.

Learn quickly and easily—The context-sensitive How To panel features a variety of sophisticated procedures, to quickly get you up and running through each part of the moviemaking process.

Get started faster—New to video editing? Watch the overview movie included on your Premiere Elements 2.0 installer DVD.

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Adobe Photoshop Elements �.0 Plus Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0Edit, organize and show your photos with Photoshop Elements 4.0. Enjoy simple, powerful video editing and DVD creation with Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0. Now, enjoy the power of both together in one affordable, convenient package. Easily open Premiere Elements DVD menu templates in Photoshop Elements for editing, or create new ones from scratch to use over and over again. Whether you’re adding still photos to your latest video, turning video frames into great photo creations, or creating standalone DVD slide shows from your photos, you can do even more using these two great products together. Best yet—save money! The Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 Plus Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 bundle debuts at the suggested retail price of just $149.99, a $50 savings over purchasing the individual products.

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Minimum System RequirementsWindows®• Intel® Pentium® 4, M, D,

Extreme Edition or AMD or AMD Athlon XP, XP-M, Opteron, Athlon 64

• Microsoft® Windows® XP (Home, Pro, Media Center) running Service Pack 2

• 256 MB of RAM • 2 GB of available hard disk

space for installation• DVD-ROM drive (compatible

DVD writer required to burn DVDs)

• 1024x768, 16-bit (XGA) display

• Microsoft DirectX 9 compat-ible sound and display drivers

• Video transfer via any of:• DV/i.LINK/FireWire/IEEE

1394 interface to connect a Digital8 or DV camcorder

• USB2 interface with a compatible DV via USB DV camcorder

• Other video devices (supported via Media Downloader)

Estimated Street Price$99 (U.S.)

Expected AvailabilityFourth Quarter 2005