What's new in Adobe Premiere Elements

Adobe Premiere Elements 2019 makes video editing easy and fun with a variety of cool features. 

Get started with auto-generated photo and video slideshows and collages that are created just for you and delivered upon launch. See what’s new since your last version, discover fun things to try, and get inspiring ideas, help, and tutorials in the new Home screen. Easily make movies in the redesigned Quick Edit mode, which offers a simplified timeline that puts everything at your fingertips. Plus, get two new Guided Edits for creating Glass Pane effects and Luma Fade transitions. And enjoy faster performance throughout Premiere Elements.

Get up and running quickly with Elements!

In the new Elements home screen, auto-generated photo and video slideshows and collages are created just for you and delivered upon launch. Plus, see what’s new since your last version, discover fun things to try, and get inspiring ideas, help, and tutorials.

For more information, see Get to know the Home screen.

Auto Creations

Powered by Adobe Sensei - amazing slideshows, video collages, and Candid Moments created automatically!

Upon launch, slideshows, video collages, and Candid Moments are automatically created just for you on the Home screen. You can effortlessly view, open, edit, save, and instantly share your Auto Creations on your favorite social media sites.

Auto Creations are powered by Adobe Sensei AI technology and highlight memorable events like birthdays and vacations. 

For more information, see View and share auto-created collages, slideshows, and more.

Enhanced Quick view

Making movies is easier than ever!

The enhanced Quick view leads you through the steps to trim a video or use the simplified sceneline to combine clips, photos, titles, music, and more into a unique production.

For more information, see Quick in the Views section in Workspace basics. 

New Glass Pane effect - Guided Edit

Make it look like your scene is taking place behind glass!

Use this guided edit to create a fun glass pane effect on your video or photo through matte overlays. The glass pane effect makes it look like the action in your scene is taking place behind a glass.

For more information, see Create a Glass Pane effect - Guided Edit.

New Luma Fade Transition effect - Guided Edit

Create a dramatic scene transition by fading in the colors!

Use this guided edit to create a cool transition effect between two video clips, two images, or an image and a video clip. The Luma Fade Transition effect creates a dramatic scene transition by fading in the colors from darkest to lightest.

For more information, see Create a Luma Fade Transition effect - Guided Edit.

New video file format support [macOS 10.13 and above]

Adobe Premiere Elements 2019 supports the import and editing of media captured with the following codecs:

• High Efficiency Image Format (HEIF) for images 
• High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) for videos 

iOS devices running on iOS 11 or higher versions capture video and image files with these codecs.

Hardware-accelerated HEVC decoding is supported on MacBook Pro and iMac Pro machines with macOS 10.13. Hardware decode acceleration is automatically selected as the default option on Mac if the hardware supports it.

For the complete list of import video file formats, see Video file formats - import.

Enhanced animated GIF export

In addition to Windows, you can now export animated GIFs on Mac.

For more information, see Export and share - Image.

Variable Frame Rate support

Adobe Premiere Elements 2019 automatically synchronizes the audio with videos captured from mobile devices that have variable frame rate (VFR). 

For more information, see Videos with Variable Frame Rate footage.

Performance enhancements

Working with Premiere Elements is now easier and faster than before!

The following performance improvements are implemented in Premiere Elements 2019:

• Download and installation: Experience a faster download and installation.
• Launch: Witness a faster launch from the Elements Home screen.
• Playback: Experience an improved playback, scrubbing, and render.

Removed features

The following features are no longer supported in Adobe Premiere Elements 2019:

• Flash files
• DVD [Mac-only]
• Quick time format
  Note: Codecs supported by native operating systems continue to work.
• Direct share on Facebook 
  Note: You can save your creations to your computer and share those on Facebook separately. For more information about this issue and the workaround, see Unable to upload photos and videos to Facebook.