
The library of templates, effects, transitions, and graphics has expanded, and now includes animated clip art that you can drag and drop into a film clip. In Premiere Elements 8, you can now add still photos to movies, even if you don’t have Photoshop Elements installed. Smart Fix tended to do a good job on the most obvious fixable problems.

In our tests, both Smart Trim and Smart Mix worked seamlessly, taking the drudgery out of critical video editing processes. Again, you can override Smart Mix’s choices. Smart Mix balances different sound sources so that the background music doesn’t drown out narration or dialogue. You can set Smart Trim either to work automatically or to mark the areas of video it recommends for trimming if you select the latter, you can then manually trim, adjust, or retain pieces, all in an easy-to-use timeline. Smart Trim uses SmartTags to determine which portions of a video should remain and which should go, as well as to weigh the interest of various sections. Smart Fix attempts to automatically correct the imperfections–such as an underexposed clip–that Smart Tags has flagged. Other automatic tools include Smart Fix, Smart Trim, and Smart Mix.
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You may prefer to use Premiere Elements 8’s manual tools to edit the Instant Movie, or to start your own from scratch. The results do tend to be pleasant, though sometimes rough, with the clip order not always logical or smooth.

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Like any automatic tool, Instant Movie doesn’t always produce great movies. In addition, Premiere Elements 8 offers more customization tools for Instant Movie, such as sliders to adjust the clip speed and/or the number of effects that will apply automatically.

Smart Tags attempt to guide the Instant Movie function away from using boring, blurred, or otherwise undesirable clips within the movie. Instant Movie can use the new Smart Tags to create a movie, with music and transitions, based on your selected Flash template. However, the two aren’t divided processes so much as they are a workflow continuum. The interface provides two ways to create movies from your video: Instant Movie and manual creation. If you pay $40 more, you get a Plus membership that includes 20GB of storage, as well as template and tutorial goodies. Premiere Elements 8 comes with a Basic membership to Adobe’s photo-sharing site,, plus 2GB of online storage at the site. You can back up, share, and archive the Organizer database and media files–and even sync them with your other computers–using Adobe’s wizard from within Premiere Elements (assuming that your other computers have an Elements 8 program installed).
