Adobe Premiere Elements 13 vs. Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Some of the most captivating imagery produced by nonprofits in recent years hasn't been photos — it's been viral videos.

Nonprofits like yours are getting savvier with social media and video, and you don't need celebrities or high-definition video. All you need is a great story and a clear message.

But which tool is best for delivering that message? Adobe provides two capable video-editing products: Adobe Premiere Elements 13 and Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

The Basics

Both Premiere Elements and Premiere Pro CC allow you to sequence clips, add audio (like narration and natural sound), include transitions, manipulate color, and add titles. Premiere Pro CC adds more features on top of these basics, including support for more video, audio, and image file formats and more tools and utilities.

Which One Do I Need?

If you need to perform basic video editing, organize your videos for quick access, and post them online, Premiere Elements will likely have everything you need.

If you need to work with very high-resolution video of any format, have granular control over how you edit it, post videos online, and distribute them on physical media, Premiere Pro CC is the best choice.

Comparison

Check out the table below for a one-to-one comparison of the features and support in each product.

	Premiere Elements 13	Premiere Pro CC (2015)
Cost through TechSoup	$27 one-time admin fee	$5 admin fee plus $239.88 for the first year, $359.88 every year after
Availability through TechSoup	Part of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements bundle	Part of Creative Cloud All Apps membership
License	In perpetuity	Subscription
OS support	Windows and Mac (both included in same product)	Windows and Mac (choice of which to install in application manager)
Timelines per project	One	Multiple
Custom sequence support	No	Yes
Nested sequence support	No	Yes
DVD and Blu-ray authoring support	Limited	Yes
GPU acceleration	No	Yes
Keyframing	No	Yes
Autosave	Yes	Yes
Changeable aspect ratios	Yes	Yes
Displays	Storyboard, Timeline	Storyboard, Timeline
Green screen (Chroma key)	No	Yes
Subtitles	No	Yes
Video import format support	3G2, 3GP, AVI, DV, M1V, M2TS, M2T, M2V, M4V, MOD, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPE, MPG, MP2, MTS, SWF, TOD, VOB, WMV (Windows)	3G2, 3GP, ASF (Windows), AVI, DV, F4V, GIF, M1V, M2TS, M2T, M2V, M4V, MJPEG, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPE, MPG, MTS, MXF, VOB, WMV (Windows) Select native camera formats
Video export format support	3GP, 3G2, AVI, GIF (Windows), M2T, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG, VOB, WMV (Windows)	3GP, AAC, AC3, AVCI, AVI (Windows), GIF (Windows), IMX, M2V, M2T, M4V, MOV, MP4, MPA, MPG, WAV, WMV (Windows)
Video project import format support	PREL	AAF, AEP, AEPX, CSV, EDL, PBL, PLB (Windows), PREL (Windows), PRPROJ, PSQ (Windows), TAB, TXT, XML
Image import format support	BMP, CR2, CRW, DIB, DNG, GIF, ICO, JPEG, JPG, NEF, ORF, PCT, PIC, PICT, PNG, PRTL, PSD, RLE, TIF, TIFF, WBM	AI, BMP, DIB, DPX, EPS, GIF, ICB, ICO, JPEG, PICT, PNG, PRTL, PSD, PSQ, PTL, RLE, TGA, TIF, TIFF, VDA, VST
Image export format support	JPEG, JPG, PRTL	BMP (Windows), DPX, GIF (Windows), JPEG, JPG, PNG, TGA, TIF, TIFF
Audio import format support	AAC, AC3, AIF, AIFF, AMR, M4A, MP3, MOV, WAV (Windows), WMA (Windows)	AAC, AC3, AIF, AIFF, ASND, AVI, BWF, M4A, MP3, MPEG, MPG, MOV, MXF, WAV, WMA (Windows)
Audio export format support	AAC, AC3, AIFF, MP3, MOV	AAC, AIF, AIFF, MP3, WAV
Subtitle import format support	N/A	DFXP, MCC, SCC, STL, XML

More Information

Check out the product pages for Premiere Elements (part of the Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements bundle) and Premiere Pro CC (part of the Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps plan).

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