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. 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. 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). In addition, you can drag and drop tags onto a video while it previews, which can be quite useful since the most important content of a movie might not be in the first frame. It automates keywording through Auto Analysis of image content (including face recognition) and Smart Tagging (of video quality), starting instantly when you import files. Adopted from Photoshop Elements, the Organizer allows you to view, keyword-tag, and organize videos and photos and when you have the two Elements programs installed, it acts as a conduit to both programs via a single interface. The most obvious (and most welcome) addition to Premiere Elements is the Organizer. Premiere Elements 8 ($100, or $140 with a Plus membership prices as of 9/23/09) adds file organizing and keywording, plus greater integration with Photoshop Elements, while making it much easier to edit and use videos in style. Adobe Premiere Elements 8 makes significant strides over its predecessor, Premiere Elements 7.
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