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What's new in Premiere Elements

  1. Adobe Premiere Elements User Guide
  2. Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements
    1. What's new in Premiere Elements
    2. System requirements | Adobe Premiere Elements
    3. Workspace basics
    4. Guided mode
    5. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
    6. GPU accelerated rendering
  3. Workspace and workflow
    1. Get to know the Home screen
    2. View and share auto-created collages, slideshows, and more
    3. Workspace basics
    4. Source Monitor and Program Monitor
    5. Preferences
    6. Tools
    7. Keyboard shortcuts
    8. Audio View
    9. Undoing changes
    10. Customizing shortcuts
    11. Working with scratch disks
  4. Working with projects
    1. Creating a project
    2. Adjust project settings and presets
    3. Save and back up projects
    4. Previewing movies
    5. Creating video collage
    6. Creating Highlight Reel
    7. Create a video story
    8. Creating Instant Movies
    9. Viewing clip properties
    10. Viewing a project's files
    11. Archiving projects
    12. GPU accelerated rendering
  5. Importing and adding media
    1. Add media
    2. Guidelines for adding files
    3. Set duration for imported still images
    4. 5.1 audio import
    5. Working with offline files
    6. Sharing files between Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop Elements
    7. Creating specialty clips
    8. Work with aspect ratios and field options
  6. Arranging clips
    1. Arrange clips in the Expert view timeline
    2. Group, link, and disable clips
    3. Arranging clips in the Quick view timeline
    4. Working with clip and timeline markers
    5. Sequence settings
  7. Editing clips
    1. Reduce noise
    2. Select object
    3. Candid Moments
    4. Color Match
    5. Smart Trim
    6. Change clip speed and duration
    7. Split clips
    8. Freeze and hold frames
    9. Adjusting Brightness, Contrast, and Color - Guided Edit
    10. Stabilize video footage with Shake Stabilizer
    11. Replace footage
    12. Working with source clips
    13. Trimming Unwanted Frames - Guided Edit
    14. Trim clips
    15. Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
    16. Artistic effects
  8. Color Correction and Grading
    1. Color Correction and Grading (LUTs)
    2. Color Correction Panel
    3. Color Correction Settings
  9. Applying transitions
    1. Applying transitions to clips
    2. Transition basics
    3. Adjusting transitions
    4. Adding Transitions between video clips - Guided Edit
    5. Create special transitions
    6. Create a Luma Fade Transition effect - Guided Edit
  10. Special effects basics
    1. Effects reference
    2. Applying and removing effects
    3. Create a black and white video with a color pop - Guided Edit
    4. Time remapping - Guided edit
    5. Effects basics
    6. Working with effect presets
    7. Finding and organizing effects
    8. Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
    9. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    10. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    11. Best practices to create a time-lapse video
  11. Applying special effects
    1. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
    2. Transparency and superimposing
    3. Reposition, scale, or rotate clips with the Motion effect
    4. Apply an Effects Mask to your video
    5. Adjust temperature and tint
    6. Create a Glass Pane effect - Guided Edit
    7. Create a picture-in-picture overlay
    8. Applying effects using Adjustment layers
    9. Adding Title to your movie
    10. Removing haze
    11. Creating a Picture in Picture - Guided Edit
    12. Create a Vignetting effect
    13. Add a Split Tone Effect
    14. Add FilmLooks effects
    15. Add an HSL Tuner effect
    16. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    17. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    18. Animated Sky - Guided edit
    19. Select object
    20. Animated Mattes - Guided Edit
    21. Double exposure- Guided Edit
  12. Special audio effects
    1. Mix audio and adjust volume with Adobe Premiere Elements
    2. Audio effects
    3. Adding sound effects to a video
    4. Adding music to video clips
    5. Create narrations
    6. Using soundtracks
    7. Music Remix
    8. Adding Narration to your movie - Guided Edit
    9. Adding Scores to your movie - Guided edit
  13. Movie titles
    1. Creating titles
    2. Adding shapes and images to titles
    3. Adding color and shadows to titles
    4. Apply Gradients
    5. Create Titles and MOGRTs
    6. Add responsive design
    7. Editing and formatting text
    8. Align and transform objects
    9. Motion Titles
    10. Appearance of text and shapes
    11. Exporting and importing titles
    12. Arranging objects in titles
    13. Designing titles for TV
    14. Applying styles to text and graphics
    15. Adding a video in the title
  14. Disc menus
    1. Creating disc menus
    2. Working with menu markers
    3. Types of discs and menu options
    4. Previewing menus
  15. Sharing and exporting your movies
    1. Export and share your videos
    2. Export settings
    3. Sharing for PC playback
    4. Compression and data-rate basics
    5. Common settings for sharing

Discover what's new in Adobe Premiere Elements 2025.

With AI and automation working their magic in the background, trimming, resizing, adding creative flair, and turning simple clips into shareworthy videos is easy. Explore new ways to design titles with stylish text, correct and transform colors, edit faster, and access free Adobe Stock title templates. Learn new skills along the way. Add eye-catching effects and transitions. Share your best moments in Highlight Reels, slideshows, collages, and social post templates. Effortlessly organize it all. And do more on the go with the web and mobile companion apps (beta). 

New features summary

UI-modernization

 Titles with text controls

Create dynamic titles with text styling controls.

color-match

Color correction tools

Enhance with new color correction tools.

highlight-reel

Color grading tools

Use color grading presets to transform footage.

audio-effects

Simplified timeline

Edit video with the simplified timeline.

New graphics in Adobe Premiere Elements.

Free Adobe Stock title templates

Access free Adobe Stock title templates.

other-enhancements

Other New Features and Enhancements

  • Apple M3 support.
  • Be creative with the web and mobile companion apps (beta)*.
  • Share via Mobile app in Elements Organizer (beta)*.

Titles with text controls

Create dynamic titles with more text controls.

Choose from new eye-catching templates, and style your text to match your story with new controls for alignment, size, direction, color, spacing, and more. 

Switch to the light or dark mode in Adobe Premiere Elements.

Learn more about Titles with text controls in Premiere Elements.

Color Correction Tools

Get your colors just right.

Ensure that clouds, snow, and other white details look truly white using the new White Balance tool, and make precise color and brightness adjustments to your whole scene or specific areas using new color correction Curves. 

Explore the Highlight Reel option in the Create menu.

Learn more about Color Correction and Grading in Premiere Elements.

Color Grading Tools

Adjust footage color with LUTs.

Create a new mood or aesthetic by automatically transforming your color scheme with these presets, or import and apply your own. 

Explore the Color Match feature in Adobe Premiere Elements.

Learn more about Color Correction and Grading in Premiere Elements.

Simplified timeline

Edit faster with a simplified Timeline. 

See video tracks grouped together and audio tracks grouped together for easier navigation, find the editing options you use most in the new Quick Tools menu, lock individual tracks to prevent accidental changes, and more.  

Explore various audio effects in Premiere Elements.

Learn more about Simplified Timeline in Premiere Elements.

Free Adobe Stock title templates

Access free Adobe Stock title templates.

Access free Adobe Stock title templates. Choose from lots of free, professionally designed templates right inside Premiere Elements.  

Explore various audio effects in Premiere Elements.

Learn more about Adobe Stock title templates in Premiere Elements.

Other New Features and Enhancements

Apple M3 chip support

With full support for the new Apple M3 systems, you’ll enjoy faster performance on Mac computers.

Share via Mobile app (beta)*

Using the Adobe Elements (Beta) mobile application, you can scan a QR code to share your special moments directly with your family and friends on any social channel or messaging app.

With this feature, you can select one or more media in the Elements organizer desktop application and use the ‘Share via Mobile app’ option under the ‘Share’ dropdown to generate a QR code and scan it to share media directly anywhere. 

Learn more about how to Share via Mobile app in Elements Organizer.

Be creative with the Web and Mobile companion apps (beta)*

Mobile

  • Try the updated mobile companion app to upload mobile photos and videos to Elements on the desktop and web, do more creative and advanced editing on the desktop, and then access, view, and share back on your mobile.
  • One-click Quick Actions for photos - Auto Crop, Auto Straighten, Auto Tone, Auto White Balance, Remove Background. 
  • Basic editing for photos: crop, rotate, transform, change aspect ratio. 
  • Adjustments for photos - Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Temperature, Tint, Vibrance, Saturation, etc. 
  • Create Pattern Overlay and Moving Overlay creations with your photos. 
  • View web app creations like slideshows and photo collages via the Elements Mobile app. 
  • Store up to 2GB of photos and videos with free cloud storage.

Web

  • Explore the updated web companion app to access and view your edited Elements photos and videos from any browser, create collages and slideshows, and share the way you like. 
  • Add fun patterns to your photos and open your creation in the desktop app for advanced editing.
  • Add peek-through overlays to frame your subject and create an illusion of depth.
  • Add moving overlays, change backgrounds automatically, add text, adjust the look of your photos, and share to social with QR codes.
  • Apply appropriate layouts to make your creation suitable for social sharing or for print.
  • Open your web creation in the desktop app for advanced editing.
  • Get started quickly with 2GB of free cloud storage.
Note:

*Available in English, French, German, and Japanese. 

For more information, go to Mobile or Web.

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