It's great to see Adobe still working hard to make its editing app more compelling year after year, so we thought we would see how good the latest version is.

Is the totally redesigned version of Adobe's Premiere Pro enough to convince you to upgrade… or migrate?

If you've outgrown iMovie, is Premiere Elements 10 the right way to go?

Premiere Elements arrives on the Mac, as part of the new Elements 9 suite

The popular home video editing software gets updated to a new version with Smart Fix technology

On paper, Adobe Premiere Elements is a no-brainer. It's a sensible, serious, affordable editing program with an interface and workflow that comes from its big sibling, Premiere Pro.

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Adobe’s Premiere might be fighting tooth and nail in an aggressive market of prosumer editing software, but its compositing suite, After Effects, seems unruffled. That’s not to say that there aren’t competitors. Discreet’s Combustion, for example, is a great compositing tool with an interface that many find more intuitive.

The original version of Premiere was a proper brain-teaser. Built for professional video editors and multimedia developers, it was power-packed and full of features, and came with a steep learning curve