About the software

Intelligent editing. Flawless videos. Cool creations.

Adobe Premiere Elements 2021 makes the creative possibilities endless.

Get started creating

• Get going quickly and start exploring the endless possibilities. Discover fun tricks, see what’s new with the latest version, and get inspiring ideas, help, and tutorials.
• Beautiful slideshows and collages are automatically delivered upon launch. Powered by Adobe Sensei AI technology.*

Intelligent editing

• Meet your creative sidekick. With Adobe Sensei AI technology in your corner, you can easily edit, create, organize, and share your videos to take your movies to the next level.
• Select a specific object—or area—of your video and easily apply an effect that tracks throughout the video.
• Improve grainy low-light footage with a simple drag and drop, instantly extract still shots from your video, automatically bring together the best scenes from your movie with Smart Trim, and more.
• New GPU-accelerated performance provides high-quality playback of many awesome effects without rendering first and makes cropping quick and easy.
• Easily make movies in Quick Edit mode, which offers a simple Sceneline that puts your clips, transitions, text, effects, and more at your fingertips.

Step-by-step Guided Edits

• From basic adjustments to fun animations, transitions, and artistic effects, you’re covered with 25 Guided Edits. Achieve the look you want without any guesswork. Just follow the steps and learn as you go.
• Make cool double exposures, reveal your videos with animated matte overlays, and more to get exactly the results you want.

Create & share

• Enjoy more creative freedom. Make animated social posts, add stylish titles, transitions, or themes to your movies, and more.
• Set the mood of your movie with the perfect soundtrack with brand new music.
• Create dynamic video collages with a mix of photos and videos to show many memories at once.
• When you’re ready, share your movies with friends and family in a variety of ways:
  • Create fun GIFs to easily share on social media.
  • Share on YouTube and Vimeo.
  • Share on DVDs (Windows only) and HDTVs.
  • Import, edit, and share HEIF photo files and HEVC video files on Windows as well as macOS.

Effortless organization

• Clean up the clutter automatically. Thanks to Adobe Sensei AI technology, you can find your photos and videos in a snap using Smart Tags, facial recognition, and more.
• Your catalog structure is automatically backed up for easy recovery—so you can work worry-free.

NEW

NEW Make precise selections

Select a specific object—or area—of your video and easily apply an effect that tracks throughout the video.

UPDATE See effects in real time

See high-quality playback of many effects without rendering first—and crop videos faster—with new GPU-accelerated performance boosts.

UPDATE Guided Edits mean more creative possibilities

From basic adjustments to fun animations, transitions, and artistic effects, you’re covered with 25 Guided Edits. Achieve the look you want without any guesswork. Just follow the steps and learn as you go.

UPDATE Guided Edits mean more creative possibilities

From basic adjustments to artistic creations, you’re covered with 58 Guided Edits. Achieve the look you want without any guesswork. Just follow the steps and learn as you go:

• NEW Create cool double exposure videos
  Make a little movie magic with double exposures. Just follow the simple steps to play a video within a photo and get the best of both worlds.
• NEW Add animated matte overlays
  Get artistic by revealing your video with animated matte overlays. Apply different shapes and animation styles to full videos, select scenes, or as transitions.

UPDATE Try out new music tracks

The perfect video needs the perfect soundtrack. Create just the feel you want with brand new music tracks, ready to rock.

UPDATE Automatically back up your catalog structure

Cataloging—albums, keyword tags, people, places, events, and more—is key to photo and video library organization. Now, all of this information is automatically backed up for easy recovery