Select the clip on your timeline and click the Adjust button on the upper right of interface. In the Applied Effects panel, open Motion effects to reveal the Rotate property. If you apply keyframed animation to this effect, you'll get the spin you're trying for. ... View more

Great news, TM! Please mark this thread as answered. ... View more

How long is your video? Some sites have file size limitations. It could also be a transcoding error. Try outputting your video using Publish & Share/Computer/AVCHD with the YouTube HD preset and then upload this MP4 manually. Should look great! ... View more

Although as John indicates you do need to resize all of your photo images in Premiere Elements to no larger than 2000x1500 pixels. ... View more

No, that should definitely resolve it, bc. If your video looks fine when it's paused and fuzzy when it's played, it just needs to be rendered. Or am I wrong in describing your symptoms? ... View more

Also, don't forget to render your timeline (press Enter) whenever your timeline indicates (with either a red or amber colored line above the clips, depending on which version of the program you're using). ... View more

Make sure that you chooose the ImgBurn option to burn a Folder to a disc, not a File. Then browse to the VIDEO_TS folder and burn that to your disc. ... View more

Your source video is high resolution 1920x1080, while your output video is DVD resolution, 720x480, so your DVD will not have nearly the resolution or clarity of your original file. You can find more information in this article in the FAQ library to the right of this forum. http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1187937?tstart=0 ... View more

Steve, you've done all of the things that I'd recommend. Though you may also want to update Quicktime to the latest version. You should also go under the Edit menu and ensure that your project settings match your video specs -- which in this case are AVCHD. ... View more

No stock response given, Michelle. And no apology necessary. You asked about Premiere Elements and we told you about Premiere Elements. And the reason it and pretty much every other video editor does what it does. But if you've found what you need, that's all that matters. ... View more

Again, unless you're planning to actually put the finished footage back into your camcorder for some reason, there's no reason to get back exactly what you put in. And what you get back depends on how you're going to use it. So it's unlikely that any of the major video editing software producers (Adobe, Apple, Sony, Avid, etc.) will be changing the way they work. But if you've found an app that will do what you need, that's all that matters! ... View more

Like virtually all video editors, in Premiere Elements  you are not editing your original video. You are adding your video to a project and then you are outputting your finished, edited piece from that finished project. That virtually always involves re-encoding. The program can smart-render some formats (like DV-AVI), when your output specs match your project and source footage specs precisely. But this is not likely with your DSLR footage. On the other hand, there is little need. You will see virtually no reduction in quality from output video, when  your project is properly set up. But, more important, there is no reason your output video should be identical in specs to your source videoe. Your source video has been optimized for a specific purpose: To provide you with the maximum editable quality within its limited storage area. Likewise, your output video will be optimized for a specific purpose. What do you plan to do with your finished video? Add it to a DVD or BluRay disc? Post it online? Use it as source footage in another video project? There are output specs that are optimized for each of those uses -- the ideal size-to-quality ratio. ... View more

You may have tried to download it during a heavy traffic period. You don't say where you're at or how stable your internet connection is, but it will work. ... View more

Again, every medium has its specific needs. Rather than a super one-size-fits-all solution, it might be best to determine what the video is going to be used for and what medium it's going to be delivered on. There's an optimized format for every purpose. ... View more

Is creating a custom template really necessary though? Can you see a significant difference in your finished YouTube video compared to simply using the Publish & Share/Computer/AVCHD with default YouTube HD preset? I'd be interested in seeing a side-by-side comparison -- just to see if it's worth creating a larger file at a higher bitrade and a longer YouTube transcoding time. ... View more

For what you're trying to do, Clip Mate is the perfect solution. ... View more

You can certainly contact Adobe, or whoever you bought the software from, and ask for a refund, if that's a dealbreaker for you. (The program is primarily designed to work with camcorder video.) AVIs can use any of thousands of codecs, and sometimes simpler programs like MovieMaker don't run deep but run very wide. If you open one of your AVIs in a program like G Spot or Media Info, it will list the resolution, frame rate and audio and video codecs. Knowing them will help identify the program -- although you can probably say with certainty that they do not use the standard DV camcorder codecs. ... View more

You may need to contact Adobe Tech Support. Something is going on with your system that's too deep for us to troubleshoot on this forum. ... View more

Assuming you're on a Mac, it's under the Organizer's Import button, in the upper left of the interface. It also usually launches automatically when you first install the program. However, note that this converts the iPhoto catalog to an Organizer catalog. Videos captured by iMovie are not necessarily compatible with Premiere Elements. ... View more

This thread is starting to fray a bit, David. How about we keep this thread focused on the subject at hand for now. And we're waiting for someone to post the 400x300 pixels side-by-side examples of a DVD and BluRay output for comparison. But we can certainly discuss frame rate in a separate thread. ... View more

We could go on with the discussion forever. 30% resolution is just not going to look as good as 100% resolution. I don't know any other way to say it. People keep bringing up "quality" -- but that's a relative term. It could mean any number of things. If you want to continue the discussion, I challenge you to do this: Create a high-def output from your slides and then open the video in VLC media player. Do a screen capture and then use Photoshop to size this image down to 400x300 pixels. Now take those same photos, rez them down town 1000x750 and put them into a standard DV project. Output a DVD and do a screen capture of the exact same slide when played in VLC media player. Then use Photoshop to size this image down to 400x300 pixels. (This will limit the effect of interlacing, which can affect the "quality" of a DVDs playback on your computer.) Put those two 400x300 images side by side and post them to this forum. Then we can address the specific "quality" issues that are illustrated. ... View more

Premiere Elements is predominantly a video editor, not a slideshow maker. It can use photos and it can produce DVD slideshows, but that's not its main feature by any means. Properly optimizing your media before you add it to a project will give you the best results. If you're interested in a program that is primarly a slideshow creator, you may want to consider Pro Show Gold, a terrific and affordable program that's easy to use and provides excellent results. ... View more

Please confirm that you've gone to Windows Update and manually downloaded even the non-critical updates, that you've downloaded the latest version of Quicktime and that you've followed all of the suggestions above. ... View more

You can contact Adobe by clicking the Contact Adobe button on their web site. As for down-rezzing photos -- this is why we recommend that you pre-down-rez your photos yourself to as close to their final video resolution as possible. For standard video: 1000x750 pixels For high-def: 2000x1500 pixels (The little extra gives you room to do pans and zooms.) The bicubic sharpener in Photoshop Elements does an excellent job at this. ... View more

Again, Premiere Elements is a video editor. It edits video. Although you can use photos in your videos. But if you're looking for a program to display high-quality slideshows from your photos on your computer, you should be looking at a program like Pro Show Gold. Though, as Bill suggests, the Elements Organizer has a slideshow creator built into it, and it can be used to output high-resolutin WMV slideshows (or port lower resolution video to Premiere Elements if you'd prefer). ... View more

You guys are not reading the thread before you post. Video on DVDs is 720x480 pixels. It's IMPOSSIBLE to display a photo at 2048x1536 on a DVD! It's not a bug in Premiere Elements. Video is video. DVDs are DVDs. If you're trying to create a slideshow that's of higher resolution than video, you should not be using a video editor. You should be using a slideshow creator like Pro Show Gold. ... View more

As I said, a DVD file is an interlaced picture and your computer is a progressive scan (non-interlaced) device. So any frame you grab from your DVD is only going to have half the number of horizontal lines as, say, a Flash or progressive scan MP4 file. And that would certainly account for the lack of detail and fuzziness in your screen caps. On your TV, two sweeps -- one displaying even-numbered lines of video and the next displaying odd-numbered lines of video -- are combined to create a single frame of a video 30 times every second. You can't judge the quality of the DVD on your computer. ... View more

Whether or not you do so is the difference between getting very good and getting the best results, copycat. As for your results outputting Flash vs., DVD -- this is why we always ask people how they plan to use a file before we tell them how to do an output. DVDs, which use interlaced video, are ideal for interlaced video media players, like TVs. While Flash is a web-based format and is optimized for non-interlaced players, like computer software. When doing comparisons, you do have to make sure you're comparing similar things. Apples and tomatoes may look alike from the outside, but you can't compare the two. ... View more

Have you tried Googling that error code? Here's a solution. http://ph.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120609012929AAe93pc ... View more

My book (on Amazon) is loaded with lots of helpful tips like that, if you're interested, pretabhorn. ... View more