Premiere Elements is a great platform to learn to edit on and I put together a quick guide of 5 tips for getting started with Premiere Elements–including the “training wheels” feature that I mentioned earlier.San Jose, Calif. If you are brand new to video editing, Premiere Pro might be too big of a leap to start out with. If you’ve used other consumer-level editors before and you think you’re ready to graduate to a more pro-level platform, then I highly recommend Premiere Pro. So the difference is really your own preference and what you’re trying to achieve with the videos you are editing. Premiere Pro CC (that’s Adobe’s Create Cloud suite) will run $20 a month for just Premiere Pro or $50 a month for the entire suite. There is a pretty steep price difference between Premiere Pro and Premiere Elements. Once I discovered that I really like video editing, I made the leap to Premiere Pro. I didn’t just jump right into video editing with Premiere Pro–I learned the basics on consumer-level editors first. I’ll tell you more about that in a minute. Premiere Elements has this really neat thing where you have different views and it’s kind of like training wheels. And they’re great! I love Premiere Pro and I edit my YouTube videos with it, but I also really really like video editing, and learning new things.

The functions and features available, the effects, the workflow between multiple people working on one video project–these are professional-grade features.

Premiere Pro has a ton of video editing capabilities, of course, but it’s geared more for professional-level video editors. Premiere Elements has a ton of editing capabilities that should satisfy your need to edit family videos, GoPro videos, vacation videos, photo montage videos for birthdays, anniversaries or funerals, videos for your blog, your business, or even your YouTube channel.

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