Like Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements now supports Apple Silicon, and Adobe claims that it will now run almost 70% faster on Macs with M1/M2 chips. However, it does have one new feature that will particularly appeal to owners of newer Macs with M1 or M2 processors.

The new version of Premiere Elements for 2023 – which was actually released in September 2022 – is a relatively modest update, so existing owners may not consider it an essential upgrade. A little more clarity – and maybe even a proper PDF manual – would be useful here. The instructions in the Guided Edit mode show you how to select animated effects and add them to your video timeline, but there’s still a confusing array of additional options to deal with, such as ‘Blend’ modes that determine how the overlay effect is applied to your video clips. This is a useful option for many video projects, but even in Guided mode some of these editing tools can be a little daunting. Many of the Guided Edits available in Premiere Elements are similar to those found in Photoshop Elements, such as the Animated Overlays feature that allows you to add ‘overlay’ effects, such as falling snow or leaves, or confetti for a wedding video. And, like Photoshop Elements, it also has a ‘Guided Edit’ mode that provides step-by-step help for common tasks, such as adding titles to your videos, or creating time-lapse effects. The ‘Expert’ mode, as the name suggests, provides more detailed editing tools, with the timeline providing multiple audio and video tracks that allow you to perform more complex editing work. The ‘Quick’ mode helps beginners to get started by allowing you to quickly import multiple videos and automatically arranging them into a simple ‘timeline’ that runs along the bottom of the screen. Video-editing can be a complex task, so Premiere Elements provides three different editing modes for people with different levels of experience.

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