We had no problems importing 4K footage from a variety of sources, but preview performance was predictably poor on our Core i7 3517U laptop. The presets are downloaded on demand, but doing so is painfully slow - 4MB downloads consistently took over a minute.Īdobe Premiere Elements 14 review: Support for 4KĪnother key new feature is 4K support, with Adobe making specific references to the Panasonic GH4, Sony AX100, GoPro Hero 4 and a few other cameras. Text can be resized, reformatted and moved around, but it’s a little awkward.

The total length of these animated titles is fixed, and inserting longer words than the template allows sometimes causes them to overlap. The trouble with the more elaborate templates is that it’s trickier to give the user free reign to customise them. They’re unusually elegant for consumer-oriented software, with simple illustrative graphics that shimmy into view along with a few lines of editable text. There are 32 preset templates to choose from, organised by genres such as Sports, Travel and Wedding. The new animated titles are more substantial. When in Audio View mode, the Tools, Transitions and Effects buttons in the Action Bar show audio-related functions by default, but all this amounts to is an interface tweak and little more. A master level meter and fader help you avoid distorting the audio output, but there’s no fader for individual channels, despite what the pop-up mixer suggests.

It reveals buttons on each audio track for recording a narration and for soloing the track, but, surprisingly, there’s no mute button. Audio View is another new feature that’s largely cosmetic.

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