I must admit, Premiere Elements is far too limiting but as a Home User who's content is the odd holiday clip, or dashcam clip, I can't justify the cost of a subscription to CC. It's a pity Adobe can't make the full products available to amateurs for a one off payment with some kind of proof of non photographic / non graphic / non creative based employment required - eg Tax Slips. That would ensure they didn't harm their professional subscriptions whilst giving keen amateurs access to the features they also want. It's a bit of a fallacy to assume that amateurs only want to produce amateur level content. Most amateurs I know want to produce Broadcast Quality content and to that end it's not only features that are lacking but encoding from consumer level products usually falls way short of broadcast quality in my opinion. When you look at Vegas Pro 15, it's near to CC in abilities but is often on offer, bringing a £499 price tag down to around £150 which isn't much different to the £100 for Premiere Elements. This has to be costing Adobe (although I somehow doubt they care that much about home users), and to the extent that they do, it would be great if they could offer a full package eg Premiere, After Effects to consumers for say a one off payment of £100 for a perpetually renewing licence, subject to an annual proof of non photographic / creative industry employment.
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