I'm an assistant editor and have worked with far too many video editing programs over the years haha. Whatever you wanna go for it's really up to you, they both do pretty much the same job unless you're making a film, but I'd probably recommend elements for the time being. Both pro and elements will render the same sort of quality as far as YouTube is concerned.

It's not complex but if you're rushing out of movie maker this might provide a nice bridge.Īs far as support for video files go, if you run everything through handbrake and/or don't record in a peculiar format it should be fine. Probably the most important thing (And why I'm pushing elements so hard) is it will help you actively while editing. Not stuff you need for youtube, but nice to have if you want to make home movies or whatever. Premiere Elements has these things called themes which work a bit like iMovie's trailers, as well as boasting the feature of DVD authoring and stuff. You lose a lot of the compatibility between other adobe products with elements, you won't be able to drop illustrator files right in the timeline but psd files will work fine. With Elements you won't get the ability to use plugins like you would in Pro (Like Boris FX or Mocha but if you don't know what they are you probably don't need them right now). (Of course if you're a student then you can use a discount and these change dramatically, i think you can get all of CC for 20 dollars a month) I think Elements is something like 80 USD outright while a subscription to premiere pro-CC is 20usd per month.

Premiere Elements has the advantage of being not on a subscription based plan. Okay so while Pro is definitely the better editor with a more professional aim, the key there is professional.

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