If you drag a menu into the storyboard or timeline, the application will ask whether you want it to automatically generate menu markers. Studio Plus has 45 DVD menu templates, a few of which have audio or motion. Studio Plus’s built-in effects have far less adjustability than do those in Elements, and only a couple have even a basic keyframe capability you must buy one of the extra-cost tools to get better keyframing. Pinnacle’s approach might have been tolerable if you could easily steer around the locked items, but they’re everywhere in the application, and you can’t hide them. Worse, some locked features (for example, MPEG-4 encoding, used to compress movies for Web sites) don’t show the padlock icon, and if you accidentally click one, the application will put a Pinnacle logo over the clip, or you’ll have to wait–and steam–while the application opens your Web browser so you can buy it. Effects come in packs costing from $6 to $40. Many other effects, transitions, and additional features appear within its interface, but with a padlock icon next to them, indicating that you can’t use them without buying them first, and that you can’t hide them. Studio Plus ships with 20 effects and 186 transitions. Many are keyframeable, too: You can set the specific video frame where an effect begins to work and another frame where it stops working, and you can specify the level of effect for every frame in between, if you like. But Premiere Elements ships with more than 300 video and audio effects and transitions, and many give you an incredible range of adjustability. If you choose to start from scratch, you’ll still find Studio Plus’s simple interface easier to figure out than Premiere Elements’. It’s quick, it’s easy, and the results are okay if you don’t like them, you can make changes in the timeline. The result is a movie, complete with transitions and sound effects. Studio Plus adds a SmartMovie function that requires almost no decision making–you just choose a style (for example, “soft and romantic”), enter a title and some closing credits, and hit a button. Though Premiere Elements has no storyboard, it can detect scenes and send them directly to the timeline. The storyboard lets you arrange clips easily, and you can switch back and forth between it and the timeline. Like most video editing applications, Studio Plus automatically splits footage into clips based on the camcorder’s embedded time code you just drag them into the storyboard or timeline (Studio has both). When I tried importing MPEG files from the Sony DCR-DVD301 camcorder, both applications slowed to an unusable pace and frequently crashed. Naturally, both applications capture footage from a MiniDV camcorder in fact, Adobe cautions that Premiere Elements is meant exclusively for MiniDV footage (usually an AVI file).
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