There are 25 Guided Edits available in Premiere Elements.

After inverting your selection, selecting the Tracking button tracks the motion of the selection throughout the video (below). Running the video, the butterfly flutters around in its natural state and the background remains with the special effect. For example, you can select an area of the video (I chose a butterfly), invert the mask and apply an effect to the background (I chose the New Blue Cartoonr effect).

Premiere then tracks the selection through the video, applying the effect through time and space. As mentioned above, the 2021 version includes the ability to easily select an object or an area of a video and apply one of the many prebuilt effects to the selection or to its invert. It’s always interesting to see what the engineers have to add to programs that have been around for many years, as with Premiere Elements. Bundled with Adobe Photoshop Elements photo editor, the cost is $149.99 for new users $119.99 to upgrade.

The MSRP for Adobe Premiere Elements 2021 is $99.99 for new users or $79.99 to upgrade. New video editing features include the ability to select a specific object or area of your video and effortlessly apply an effect that tracks throughout the video. Accelerated GPU (graphics processing unit) performance means faster high-quality playback of effects and improved performance when cropping video.

This week, I am taking a look at Adobe Premiere Elements 2021, which provides a way for still photographers to meet their clients’ video requests without deeply immersing themselves into the complexity of high-end Adobe Premiere Pro video editing. Last week, my hands-on review of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 revealed a powerful image-editing program at a very affordable price.

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