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ike Apple’s iMovie, Adobe Premiere
Elements 2020 is designed to help video
makers import, fix and share their raw
clips as tightly edited programs, complete
with professional post–production assets
such as titles and transitions.
As our iPhones can generate HD and 4K
footage, we may have the problem of
managing an ever–growing collection of
video assets. This can involve lots of
rummaging through folders in an attempt
to find particular clips.
With the release of Premiere Elements
2020 it’s now easier to manage your video
collection and find files more quickly. Thanks
to Adobe Sensei, the Elements 2020
Organizer uses Artificial Intelligence to
analyze the content of your video footage
and add Smart Tags that cover common
subjects such as sunsets, birthdays, dogs,
cats, and so on. This is similar to the search
tool in Apple’s Photos app, which also auto
tags stills and clips with categories such as
dogs, cats etc. Premiere Elements 2020 can
now organize clips according to the faces
featured in them, so you can search through
auto–generated stacks of clips to find andlabel particular people. The Elements
Organizer has been able to tag photos for
years, so it’s good to see that video assets
have now become easier to tag and search
for in the 2020 version.GUIDED EDITS
Premiere’s useful Guided workspace walks
you through the video–making process,
covering basic techniques such as importing
clips and manually trimming them in the
Timeline. Step by step text instructions are
accompanied by pop–up highlights around
appropriate buttons and panels in the
workspace, so that you can quickly get to
know where key editing features are located
and how to use them. This gives Premiere
Elements 2020 the edge over iMovie, which
lacks an interactive workflow guide for
editing newcomers.
The Guided workspace also teaches you
how to make creative edits such as looping
and bouncing an action clip. There are new
options here, such as Animated Sky. This
enables you to create the effect of adding
motion to a static photo. As its name
suggests, Animated Sky guides you throughAdobe Premiere Elements 2020
Turn long rambling clips into slickly–edited
social media content
$59.99 From Adobe, adobe.com
Features Guided edits, post–production keying tools, noise reduction effects, auto tagging
Reviews
44 FEB 2020 maclife.com
Retime video to create high–speed sequences, or run stills together to animate them.