Questions

I want to share a very frustrating experience I had with v2026. Upon installation Premiere Elements and/or Microsoft evidently reset defaults… one of which was .mp4 files to Premiere Elements. Whenever I exported a movie and attempted to play it back, all it did was reload the project file, even though it said it was a .mp4 file. Finally, I went into Microsoft ‘default’ settings and reset .mp4 to a different program (in my case I selected media classic player) and all of a sudden the file played as a normal video file. Wow, how frustrating until I figured it out. Hopefully this might save someone else some frustration.Barry

 I have Adobe Elements 2021; however, for the past few weeks, I have only been able to use the program in the trial version. I have reinstalled the product, but the problem persists. I purchased the Adobe Elements program with a serial number.

I'm having trouble reactivating Premiere Elements 2020 after my PC crashed. I can't log out of my old PC (continuous BSOD).During activation, I get a message that there are too many activations.The agent said he can't help me.How do I reactivate the software?The product is visible in my software list in my Adobe account.Jacek

Hi, I’m a Newbie!!!!I'm getting an error message about “Sequence Settings Mismatch” in Premiere Elements 2026. This only happens as I’m working on a video a friend sent me. Most of the articles/videos I find about the best way to fix it only apply to Pro, not Elements. Any suggestions?

When I apply default (cross dissolve) transition to all clips on the timeline, APE applies a “transition” to the beginning of the first clip. Since there is nothing to transition from, APE installs a fade-in on the first clip.. (And a fade-out on the last clip.) My question is, why wouldn’t Adobe apply a transition only at the intersection of 2 clips? That would make more sense. After all, it’s not a transition of there’s nothing to transition to or from. I doubt that anybody really wants that fade-in/out along with transitions.. If we want fade-in/out, we can install them ourselves. It’s up to us, not APE to decide that. I know there are a couple ways to work around the issue, but Adobe should fix that in the next generation.

Running Elements 2026.1.  I have a client that creates MOGRT files in AE & until recently I was able to open them in Elements but now I can't.  I get error: "This motion graphics template is not compatible with this version of Premiere Elements."

I’ve captured some 4K HDR videos using my GoPro 12.  When playing the video in Windows, everything looks normal.  Also, when playing the clip within Premiere Elements Project Asset, it looks fine.   After adding it to the timeline and render, the color of the clip in preview looks strange.  See attachment.  The blue sky turns black.  Any assistance with this issue would be appreciated.Clip properties:Type:  MPEG Movie Frame Rate: 59.94 Color Space:  Rec 709 Color Space Override Off Video Codec Type HEVC 10 bit 4:2:0  

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when im editing my videos in premiere elements 21 its impossible to do anything becauyse if i try to playback the videos in my timeline it lags so bad that it shows 1 frame every 20 seconds. any fix?

I have installed Premiere Elements and entered my serial number. I get an error that the software is already activated. I no longer have the computer that Premiere was installed on. I did not deactivate Premiere on the old computer before I disposed of it.Is there a way to deactivate the old installation so that I can install Premiere on the new computer?

Bonjour Lorsque j’ajoute mon fichier mp4 pour faire le montage de ma vidéo j’ai uniquement le son qui apparait. Je n’ai aucune image cependant lorsque je regarde ma vidéo dans le lecteur multimedia de mon ordinateur tout est là. Comme résoudre mon problème ? Merci

Hi,just recently bought Premiere Elements 2026 but I have huge issues on Windows 11. When importing 4K/50 videos from GoPro (25 videos) into Premiere Elements, I got 1st huge issues with generating Peak files. It sometime hangs and Premiere is restarting. If I overcome this by importing one file at a time, my timeline starting to be constantly frozen, when I open project media browser, I usually got freeze of Premiere, amount of RAM used by Premiere is going into values like 30 - 40 GB (I have 64GB RAM) and then app crashes leaving huge dump file (like 40GB) in the AppData folder. Switching nVIDIA support not helps. I have check on 2025 version trial, and no issue at all. Also there are no issues on Mac with 2026 version…. Any idea what is happening with Windows version of 2026 and what can I do with this issue?

Good morning!After installing Premier Elements 2021 on a new PC I found out that I reached the limited number of activations/installations (even being signed out from old computer) - that seems like a smart marketing move by the company to get rid of old-timers, who do not want to get hooked on subscriptions.Ok, so now I am using subscription type Premier Elements 2026 (3 year subscription for $80). When I do the Export of the project and timeline has a customer logo “imposed” for 1 second, the whole frame gets a hase over and lightens up a bit. Which is quite annoying “improvement” - the video rolls, my model talks and as soon as logo appears in the corner of the screen, the whole frame lightens up. Internet suggests that I change the “export” settings - from Hardware accelerated encoding to Software accelerated encoding. Well, Software encoding works better with imposed customer logo, no haze added to the frame, good. But in other parts of the exported movie model talking mouth becom

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What settings do i best use to export a movie (montageen render in premiere elements 2026) to a USB or external HD to send this movie to a projector via a laptop?

Hello, I am unable to see my scanner in Elements 2026.  When I select File/Import I only see WIA Support.  I have checked WIA and it is running and I see both scanners.  If I select WIA support, it freezes up completely and I have to manually stop running the program from task manager.  I am running Windows 11

I’m trying to adapt to Premier Elements 2025, after using prior versions (2021 as the latest) for years. Biggest single problem is, I simply cannot find convenient one-frame-forward or one-frame-back controls. In prior versions, there was a simple button, for each of those commands, which would then allow me to use a cut command at exactly the frame I wanted. In the 2025 version, all I can figure out is, keep expanding, and expanding, and expanding the timeline, until I can use my mouse to create what looks like only a single-frame jump at a time. If anyone can help me find a better way to get single-frame resolution, before I cut/trim a video segment, I would be very grateful.

I’ve been using P-Elements for years, and was comfortable with the 2021 version, but that version cannot handle HEVC h.265 files. So, I upgraded to the 2025 version, but that interface is just so, so totally different, I cannot use it comfortably, or efficiently, and since I’m just an occasional hobbyist who doesn’t do this often, I have found it deeply frustrating, and discouraging, to try to learn a completely new and different interface -- especially since I cannot find any way to move forward or backward by a single frame, before I trim a video (I created a separate post, to try to address that problem).My question is, if I buy the 2022, or 2023, or 2024 version of Premier Elements, will it be able to handle HEVC h.265 files, while letting me continue to use an interface which is at least similar to the 2021 version?Or, can anyone give me a complete step-by-step version of where to find (I’m hoping someone can offer an exact link, rather than just some name that I would need to beg

The floating timeline is not working in adobe premiere elements 2026, also after adobe service support said that the problem is solved and the case closed, the problem is stil there, also after the new update.

I've been using 2021 Premier Elements for years, now trying Elements 2025, want to get newly saved mp4(2025) files to match parameters of older mp4(2021) files, close enough for high-speed lossless merging in Bandicut. I've matched frame size, frame rate, keyframe rate, and audio traits; and, I’ve tried both Constant Bitrate, and Variable Bitrate. But, none of those have been good enough for Bandicut, which keeps saying, “no, if you want to merge those two mp4 files together, you will have to use slow frame-by-frame encoding, and that will be lossy.” How many more parameters do I need to align, and what are they? I’m using a Windows 10 system, to create 1080p files, with a target bitrate of 11 Mbps.

HiI’m looking for a way to Change 'Duration' of multiple slides… I have found this thread: Changing multiple slide lengths at once? CS6 | Community However I cannot see where on the properties on the right this can be done.  I am on APE 2024, so maybe it is slightly different. Thanks!

Product/Version/OS: Adobe Premiere Elements 2026 — Version 26.0.0 (20251104.PRE.65345cd3) macOS Tahoe 26.2 Hardware: Macbook Pro M3 Max  Problem:I’m trying to key out a green screen clip and replace the background. My green screen footage looks normal and in full color before applying the key. As soon as I apply Ultra Key to the green screen clip and select the green background with the eyedropper, the foreground subject (me) becomes grayscale/grey (looks like desaturated/black-and-white). This happens even if I place a colorful background video underneath. Important: it’s not just a preview issue — the exported video also shows the subject in grayscale. Steps to reproduce: Import a green screen clip (subject in front of green background). Clip is full color normally. Place clip on V2. Place any background video/image on V1 (optional; subject still turns gray even without background). Add Ultra Key to the V2 clip. Use eyedropper to select the green background as Key Color.

I re-loaded Premier Elements 2021 onto a machine I’ve been using for years, when Win 10 got corrupted and needed a fresh install. Whenever I load a template file, to bring in the parameters I want to start with (1080p, etc), it creates a batch of unwanted folders on my desktop (Autosave, Layout, etc). I have repeatedly opened Preferences, then Scratch Disks, and inserted the name of a folder (which is on a solid-state drive other than the one where my Premier Element project files are located, and other than the drive I save my mp4 files to). But, as soon as I close Premier Elements, it wipes out those folder names, and goes back to “desktop scattering” mode, the next time I open it. How can I get it to save, and use, the folder location I keep asking and telling it to use?

After upgrade to version 26.0.0 the effect “Blend” is missing. I used it to change the opacity of source clips. Does this effect now have another name or is there another way to change blend modes/opacity of source clips? 

Hello!I'm aware that there have been similar question asked before, but I feel that my case might be a bit different, since I couldn't find a solution to my problem.So, I have a few questions about exporting on Adobe Premiere Elements 12. I create gaming videos on YouTube. I record console games with Elgato HD (in 720p 60 fps) and PC games with Fraps (in 1080p 60 fps). The raw, non-edited video is in great quality. However, when I export the edited video, my quality drops. It's still good, but not as good as the original footage, which bothers me. I know for sure I have something wrong with my exporting settings, but I can't figure out what. I've tried rising the bitrate, but even when I set it to as high as it's possible, the quality doesn't match the original.Here are the settings I've used to export my Fraps recorded videos:Videos are usually edited to about 20-30 minutes, and with these settings the exporting takes about 2 hours.But here's the one thing that confuses me. The source