One final thing about special effects: they require a lot of horsepower. If you are already editing your videos, you are probably aware that video editing is a high-end task for your computer. Adobe recommends the following configuration for Premiere Elements, but keep in mind that this represents their "entry level" setup:
Special effects, where changes are applied to each frame in a clip, and to many clips in a video track, and to many tracks in a project, and to both video and audio tracks at the same time, obviously requires a little more than the minimum. |