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Adobe Premiere Elements Changelog

What's new in Adobe Premiere Elements 2024.2

Apr 2, 2024
  • This free update includes:
  • In addition to English, the Adobe Elements web app (Beta) is now available in French, German, and Japanese. Learn More.
  • In addition to English, the Adobe Elements mobile app (Beta) is now available in French, German, and Japanese. Learn More.
  • Fixed: Issue with media import via APD
  • Fixed: Ultra Key Effect is not working
  • Fixed: Missing effects under Advanced Adjustments
  • Fixed: Guided Edit: Shadow/ Highlights Effect not available
  • Fixed: The "Learn More" string is truncated on the update dialog
  • Fixed: Not getting Adobe crash reporter dialog after crash
  • Fixed: The user isn't shown a feedback dialog under certain situations
  • Updates for Elements Organizer:
  • Fixed: Crashes that occurred during large catalog backups
  • Fixed: Silent Dumps created for Elements AutoAnalyzer and Elements Organizer

New in Adobe Premiere Elements 2024 (Oct 19, 2023)

  • New features summary:
  • 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.
  • UI Modernization:
  • Discover modern fonts, icons, buttons, and colors that are easier on the eye. Plus, choose from light and dark mode options. You'll notice modernized workspaces (Quick, Guided, and Advanced), dialogs, buttons, panels, toolbar, action bar, and more. You can change the UI color mode of the application to dark or light from the preferences
  • Color Match:
  • Explore the new Color Match feature in Quick and Advanced modes. Choose from built-in presets or use a video of your own to match the color and create a consistent look across your clips. Further, fine-tune the luminance, color strength, hue, saturation, and brightness of the result in the Advanced mode.
  • Highlight Reel:
  • Count on Adobe Sensei AI* to quickly turn your favorite clips into Highlight Reels that focus on people, close-ups, and your highest-quality footage.
  • Audio Effects:
  • Enhance your storytelling with new audio effects in Adobe Premiere Elements. Try out effects like Studio Reverb, Vocal Enhancer, and DeHummer to improve your listening experience. Follow these steps to apply the desired audio effect:
  • Switch to Advanced view in Adobe Premiere Elements editor.
  • Open Effects panel > Switch to the Audio tab
  • Drag and drop any desired audio effect over an audio on the timeline.
  • Within the Applied Effects panel, you've the ability to finely adjust properties linked to chosen audio effects, tailoring them to your preferred output with precision.
  • New Graphics:
  • Emphasize key moments or just add some eye-candy with modern new graphics. Try out fresh content categories, including Beach, Birthday, Christmas, Doodles, Easter, Fitness, Halloween, Kawaii, Neon Stickers, and Social.
  • Other New Features and Enhancements
  • Auto Sync (English-only beta):
  • Auto-sync your photos and videos to enjoy them anywhere. (English-only beta)
  • Sync across the Elements Organizer and the web and mobile companion apps.
  • Quick Launch:
  • Experience accelerated launch times now in Adobe Premiere Elements.

New in Adobe Premiere Elements 2023.1 (Apr 6, 2023)

  • This free update includes a fix for the Artistic Effect bug related to certain Intel GPU cards and some critical bug fixes.

New in Adobe Premiere Elements 2023 (Sep 29, 2022)

  • New features summary:
  • 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 an 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 2022.4 (Jul 15, 2022)

  • This free update includes stability fixes.

New in Adobe Premiere Elements 2022.1 (Feb 26, 2022)

  • This free update includes stability fixes.

New in Adobe Premiere Elements 2022 (Oct 7, 2021)

  • New features summary:
  • 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 2021.3 (Aug 24, 2021)

  • This free update includes crash fixes and critical security fixes.

New in Adobe Premiere Elements 2021.1 (Aug 24, 2021)

  • Fixed issue: Not able to type "@" in the german setup on the login page.
  • Fixed issue: In Elements Organizer, borderless prints leave borders on the bottom and the right size of the print
  • More NVIDIA GPU cards are supported for GPU Acceleration.

New in Adobe Premiere Elements 15.0 (Oct 8, 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)

  • 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)

  • New:
  • Easily tell your big life stories:
  • Do justice to weddings, birthdays, and other big life events. With Video Story you 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, so you get a full-on production.
  • Favorite moments, fast movies:
  • Just click to choose your favorite moments from a video clip, and Elements turns them into a movie. Done!
  • Cooler titles and dramatic effects:
  • Use new Guided Edits to add motion inside your movie titles, and to punch up the drama with effects or blurs that draw eyes to one part of your scene. Guided Edits build your skills in no time with built-in video tutorials.
  • Smooth out the shakes:
  • Make the footage you capture with GoPros and other action cams less shaky and more awesome with the enhanced Shake Stabilizer.
  • See your photos and videos in all their glory:
  • Support for High DPI on Windows and Retina Display on Mac means you always see your photos and videos full res — no compromises.
  • ENHANCED:
  • Get a final movie, faster:
  • Less waiting around! Premiere Elements now creates your finished movie file faster than ever.

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)

  • Go Hollywood with popular movie styles:
  • Use new FilmLooks to apply favorite cinematic styles to your movies.
  • 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.
  • Manage your videos more easily:
  • Intuitively sort and manage videos and photos based on people, places, and events using new Organizer views.
  • Slow down or speed up the action:
  • Create emphasis, suspense, or drama in key movie moments by adding slow-motion effects. Add fast-motion effects to accelerate your narrative or create a sense of energy, excitement, or fun.
  • Adjust color with greater ease:
  • Use sliders to adjust the color in your footage as easily as you would adjust the color in your photos.
  • Share videos and slide shows on Vimeo:
  • Quickly share your video clips and slide shows on the popular Vimeo site.
  • Map your memories:
  • Relive your journeys by viewing your videos and photos on a map based on where they were taken.
  • Enhance your footage with powerful photo-blending techniques:
  • Use blend modes to enhance one clip with the colors or textures of another clip, add your signature or a copyright line as a watermark, and more.
  • Get fresh looks with new effects and enhancements:
  • Impress friends and family by creating movies that feature eye-catching new effects, themes, and more.

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.
  • Enjoy support for 64-bit Windows 7:
  • Edit with speed and stability thanks to support for 64-bit Windows 7 systems.
  • 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)

  • Title related crashes
  • Issues related to incompatible Display driver for certain Graphic (GPU) Cards
  • Other Bug Fixes

New in Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0.3 (Apr 28, 2010)

  • Provides updates to applicable membership services and some important security fixes.