Equipment #3

Equipment

Adobe Premiere Elements – Adobe Premiere Elements is a video editing software application for nonlinear video editing, published by Adobe Systems. It is a scaled-down version of the professional level Adobe Premiere Pro, and is tailored to new editors. The entry screen offers clip organisation, editing and auto-movie generation options. Premiere Pro project files are not compatible with Premiere Pro projects.

As a group, the main purpose for using this technology is to enable us to cut and split different sections within our filming to allow us to edit scenes together. Although the technology offers a wide variety of features, such as the effects and transitions, we are unable to use a large proportion of them. This is both due to the extravagancy of many of the features which would take away from the realism, making our film seem amateur and our chosen genres – action, crime and thriller which from our research we have found do not use any obvious extras again, in order to enforce the realism. Despite being unable to use many features of the technology, we have found that there are also features in which we use significantly more than others, such as the cutting tool. As mentioned briefly before, this tool allows us to crop clips to a desirable length, in order to match them to the next clip. This helps to enforce the continuity of the scenes and allows us to build our scenes from smaller clips. We have found this beneficial as it gives us a wider variety of choice because we are able to experiment using different cuts from different clips in order to see which matches best, helping us to produce scenes of a better quality.