Auto tracking then ensures that the child remains sharp while she runs through a blurred background. The image is blurred with an effect and then the child is selected with a quick scribble.

In the official Adobe demo video we see a child running through a field. A new feature is the ability to apply effects to specific objects and then have those effects follow (or track) the subject throughout the video.

Premiere Elements 2021 does a great job of letting you trim long shots into shorter slickly edited shows complete with titles, transitions and extra ‘bells and whistles’ such as picture-in-picture effects. Isolate a moving subject from a blur-filtered background using auto tracking (Image credit: George Cairns/Digital Camera World) (opens in new tab) This occasionally involved multiple drag and drop attempts before we succeeded in applying an effect (while running Premiere Elements on a 27 inch 2017 model iMac (opens in new tab)). We also found the app a little sluggish when it came to dragging effects and transitions into the timeline. This is a new glitch that wasn’t an issue until we updated the app to the latest version (2021.1). On the Mac version of Premiere Elements we found that the contents of the Add Media and Project Assets panels weren’t always visible until we’d clicked on them multiple times. Unlike the Quick workspace you can add video and audio content to multiple tracks to combine footage in more creative ways. Extra tools such as filter effects can be summoned by clicking icons on the right. The Expert workspace looks very similar to other non-linear video editing apps with a timeline along the bottom, a bin full of project assets at the right and the edited programme is displayed in the viewer. The new Animated Mattes Guided Edit helps lets you reveal a video clip in a more creative way (Image credit: George Cairns/Digital Camera World)Īfter spending time trying the tricks and techniques introduced by the Guided Edits you’ll become more confident in exploring the Expert workspace.

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