Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

Hi Vlad,
I collaborate with a friend to make our own music videos as a retirement hobby, covering songs from the 50's and 60's. His camera is a Nikon D5000 and his clips are in 720P. If my clips are in 1080P, I'll upscale his to 1080P (by pulling the dots on the edges of his clip border to fill my frame... you can also do this to crop the clip to make a larger image) to combine them and render them in 1080P. If mine are 4K and I upscale his clip from 720p to 4K and render the video in 4K. I don't downscale my footage but upscale lower resolution footage to match whatever my footage is.

I did that in this video. I'm on the right side in 4K and his footage is on the left, and was originally 720P, and the video is rendered in 4K.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLeM7LeVst4

In this one my footage was 1080P, and I upscaled his from 720P to 1080P and rendered the video in 1080P.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvmV2iaSZQw

In another case I took his 720P footage and my 1080P footage and upscaled both to 1440P.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ1j_xyA8IU

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

Great work!

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

Thank you.

Vladimir200 Loc: Beaumont, Ca.

Thanks so much! You just taught me a lot!

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

You're very welcome.

Marshalltucker Loc: Texas

You can do about everything on that list with Premier Elements with the main difference being Elements has no GPU support which can result in extremely long rendering times but Elements is not a subscription like Pro is and if you have the time it's great.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

The thing you don't get with Elements is a full featured audio editor integrated with the video editor, like Adobe Audition is with Premiere Pro. For example with Premiere Pro you can start or end the audio before or after a segment starts, or fade in/fade out the audio independently of the video, use audio tools like equalization, echo, placing different audio tracks in different locations in the stereo spectrum (like drums to the left, vocal center), etc. Being able to non-destructively edit the audio right on the video time line is a big convenience and time saver.

Marshalltucker Loc: Texas

I suspect that the Pro version will do a whole lot more than elements, I've never used the Pro version but have used Elements since Premier Elements 9 came out, I have 2018 now and it does all I need although I don't think it has the stereo spectrum capabilities mentioned, it will however separate the audio and video and can do a lot of the other audio stuff mentioned. I do think that a great number of serious YouTube vloggers do use the pro version because it does render faster if you have a nice gpu on your system. The newer versions of Elements will do 4K but you need a lot of processing power to do it, I think the Pro version is better at that but there is that subscription fee that may or may not matter to you.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

I've been using the CS6 suite (Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Audition, After Effects) for many years now so no subscription. I tried the CC version when it first came out but didn't see enough difference to keep it. I have no problem editing 4K videos with it on an old HP Z-200 desktop I bought several years ago on ebay for $200 and upgraded with 16GB of RAM. It runs Win 10 Pro 64 bit at 3GHz with an intel i7 processor and a separate 2GB video card and a 1TB hard drive. If it exports a video for an hour or two I just let it run for however long it takes and do something else in the meantime. Sometimes I start the export when I go to bed and let it run while I'm sleeping, and it's done when I wake up in the morning.