Adobe Premiere Elements versions

v18.1 [Jul 3, 2020]
- Auto Creations just for you: Beautiful photo and video slideshows and collages are automatically created for you and delivered upon launch. Powered by Adobe Sensei AI technology.
- 23 Guided Edits for next-level results: Get step-by-step help making incredible movies, video creations, and effects that you can customize as you wish.
- Create dynamic time-lapse videos: Turn a series of photos or videos into a time-lapse that speeds up the action.
- Animate skies in your photos: Replace static skies with moving ones to create an eye-catching effect.
- Fill the frame to match your video: Bring a vertical clip or photo into a horizontal video (or vice versa) so it looks seamless. Black bars are filled in to match the look of your video.

v18.0 [Mar 8, 2020]
Explore new video editing features:
- Improve grainy videos: Shot your video in low light? Make it look more crisp with a simple drag and drop of the Reduce Noise effect.
- Animate skies in your photos: Replace static skies with moving ones to create an eye-catching effect.
- Fill the frame to match your video: Bring a vertical clip or photo into a horizontal video (or vice versa) so it looks seamless. Black bars are filled in to match the look of your video.
- Create dynamic time-lapse videos: Turn a series of photos or videos into a time-lapse that speeds up the action.
- Find videos faster with Smart Tags: Your videos are auto-tagged based on subjects like sunsets, birthdays, dogs, cats, and more. Powered by Adobe Sensei AI technology.*
- Find by faces: The faces in your videos are automatically recognized during import, and then the videos are stacked by person so it’s easy to tag and find them later. Powered by Adobe Sensei.
- Expanded HEIF and HEVC support: Import and edit HEIF photo files and HEVC video files on Windows as well as macOS.

v17.0 [Jan 30, 2019]
- Home screen: In the new Elements home screen, auto- generated photo and video slideshows and collages are created just for you and delivered upon launch. Plus, see what’s new since your last version, discover fun things to try, and get inspiring ideas, help, and tutorials.
- Auto Creations: Upon launch, slideshows, video collages, and Candid Moments are automatically created just for you on the Home screen. You can effortlessly view, open, edit, save, and instantly share your Auto Creations on your favorite social media sites.
- Enhanced Quick view: The enhanced Quick view leads you through the steps to trim a video or use the simplified sceneline to combine clips, photos, titles, music, and more into a unique production.
- New Glass Pane effect - Guided Edit: Use this guided edit to create a fun glass pane effect on your video or photo through matte overlays. The glass pane effect makes it look like the action in your scene is taking place behind a glass.
- New Luma Fade Transition effect - Guided Edit: Use this guided edit to create a cool transition effect between two video clips, two images, or an image and a video clip. The Luma Fade Transition effect creates a dramatic scene transition by fading in the colors from darkest to lightest.
- Enhanced animated GIF export: In addition to Windows, you can now export animated GIFs on Mac.
- Variable Frame Rate support: Adobe Premiere Elements 2019 automatically synchronizes the audio with videos captured from mobile devices that have variable frame rate (VFR).
Performance enhancements:
- Download and installation: Experience a faster download and installation.
- Launch: Witness a faster launch from the Elements Home screen.
- Playback: Experience an improved playback, scrubbing, and render.

v14.0 [Sep 26, 2015]
May include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

v13.0 [Aug 7, 2014]
Easily tell your big life stories
Do justice to weddings, birthdays, and other big life events. With Video Story you just pick the story type, grab clips for each chapter, and Premiere Elements does the rest — trimming, transitions, and music based on the mood you choose, so you get a full-on production.
Favorite moments, fast movies
Just click to choose your favorite moments from a video clip, and Elements turns them into a movie. Done!
Not your standard slideshows
Get inspired with Elements Live
Find great creative ideas, tips, tricks, and help right at your fingertips, right inside Elements.
Cooler titles and dramatic effects
Cooler titles and dramatic effects
Use new Guided Edits to add motion inside your movie titles, and to punch up the drama with effects or blurs that draw eyes to one part of your scene. Guided Edits build your skills in no time with built-in video tutorials.
Smooth out the shakes
ENHANCED Smooth out the shakes
Make the footage you capture with GoPros and other action cams less shaky and more awesome with the enhanced Shake Stabilizer.

v12.0 [Sep 26, 2013]
1. Discover a friendly and intuitive environment
- Organize, edit, enhance and share more quickly and easily thanks to big, bold icons;
a helpful Action bar; and the ability to choose from Quick and Expert editing modes to fit your needs.
2. Take your videos with you wherever you go
- Easily view, relive, and share your Elements videos on your smartphone or tablet. And finally — unlock the photos from your mobile device and see them in your Elements albums back at home.
3. Get Hollywood effects and styles
Discover more FilmLooks (Comic, Trinity, Yesteryear, Cross Process) to add Hollywood effects and styles to your movies.
4. Spotlight your subject
- Add graphics, text and effects that move with the subject using motion tracking.
5. Learn as you use
- Use Guided Edits to learn advanced editing techniques with built-in video tutorials. Build your moviemaking savvy in no time.
6. Share your stories
- Upload your finished movies to Vimeo, YouTube or your personal website. Adobe Premiere Elements will optimize and format your movie for specific destinations, so your movies always look great. Now, easily share your Elements movies in shared albums and view them on your smartphone or tablet.

v11.0 [Sep 26, 2012]
Discover a friendly and intuitive environment
Organize, edit, enhance and share more quickly and easily thanks to big, bold icons; a helpful Action bar; and the ability to choose from Quick and Expert editing modes to fit your needs.
Map your memories
Relive your journeys by viewing your photos and videos on a map based on where they were taken.
Manage your videos more easily
Intuitively sort and manage videos and photos based on people, places and events using the Organizer views.
Go Hollywood with popular movie styles
Use new FilmLooks to apply favorite cinematic styles to your movies.
Slow down or speed up the action
Create emphasis, suspense or drama in key movie moments by adding slow-motion effects and add fast-motion effects to accelerate your narrative or create a sense of energy, excitement or fun.
Share videos and slide shows on Vimeo
Quickly share your video clips and photo slide shows on the popular Vimeo site.
ENHANCED Get easy and powerful video editing.
Trick out your flick with special effects like fast/slow-mo and FilmLooks. Push your movies to the top sharing sites, and get famous faster.

v8.0 [Sep 24, 2009]
ave fun with graphics that follow the motion new
Want to add funny thought bubbles or goofy hats above people's heads? Use new motion tracking capabilities to add graphics, text, and effects that automatically move with the subjects in your scenes.
Manage and protect all your clips and photos from one convenient place new
Bring all your video clips and photos together in the powerful, easy-to-use, fully featured new Organizer — the hub of your video and photo experience. Now it's easier than ever to find, view, and protect all your photos and video clips, and you can even view video clips full screen. Then dive in to a full range of creative activities and start enjoying your memories.
Save time with new automated options new
Make movies with less effort. Adobe® Premiere® Elements software can automatically fix shaky footage and color and lighting problems, trim away all but your best footage, and balance audio elements to give you professional-quality sound throughout your movie.
Enliven the action with artwork and animations new
Add sparkle to your scenes thanks to an all-new library of artwork, including fun frames, objects, and animations.
Get the big picture new
Get the full effect of your video clips and photos from within the Organizer with new full-screen previews.
Add visual pop exactly where you want it new
Delight your audience with a touch of movie magic — blur faces, add cartoon heads, and more. Now you can apply any 2D video effect to a specific area of a scene and keep it locked on the action with motion tracking.
See the same video clips and photos on every computer new.
With automatic syncing, media added or edited on one computer will automatically be synced to another.1
Showcase your videos in one-of-a-kind Online Albums with your choice of dynamic, animated templates. And share via public or private galleries — friends and family won't have to register to look.2 (Get more with Plus.)