Online Video Hosts for PRE 4

[DMurray407]

I know it's supposed to be easy to export video clips from PRE4 to YouTube, but I'm wondering if it is just as easy to export to other sites as well? I have an account at Smug Mug and I can have small video clips (MPEG-1 format) and I'm wondering if anyone knows if PRE4 will work with other sites besides YouTube.
Thanks!

[ATR]

Check out the Premiere Elements 4 Share Center description currently online:

http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/premiereel/features/

What has me wondering is the the following sentence:

"Broadcast far and wide uploading your movies directly to YouTube or your personal sharing site."

Given for Premiere Elements 4, a "built in YouTube" output with optimizing and formatting for YouTube. Direct connect so to speak. BUT, as for "personal sharing site"???

I suspect the catch is that the "directly" in the sentence applies to YouTube and not your personal sharing site????

The Adobe sentence is a wide open sentence. I will try to find out the details today:

(1) If you can get this Share Center direct feature including the optimization and formatting for Smug Mug (which I see requires MPEG 1 format)...I doubt it. Will you be happy with the MPEG 1 quality????

(2) Or, you do the optimizing and formatting for Smug Mug (conversion to MPEG 1) and can upload directly from Premiere Elements 4 to Smug Mug AND/OR you do the optimizing and formatting for Smug Mug (conversion to MPEG 1) and upload the saved version from your hard drive to Smug Mug.

To be continued....

ATR

[DMurray407]

Thanks for your research, ATR. I purchased the new bundle from Adobe this morning (I will get it eventually, so I may as well just get it over with!) so soon I will be able to get my hands on it and figure it out. I also signed up for a free YouTube account, just in case. I don't really have movies anyone but family would want to see (and I often wonder about them!) but once in a while I want to share something at work and we have a really strict "censor" on what websites we can view-somehow I don't think YouTube is allowed (they even block National Geographic. . .). I'll have to check it out next time I'm at work. I can go with YouTube if it's easier and better quality video-I just thought it would be neat to have everything in one place.
Thanks again!

[ATR]

This is the update that I prepared before I saw your last post. You will probably have the answer for us soon. Looking forward to your report.

Here is the update that I prepared:

I did some more looking around. It appears that, for Photoshop Elements 6 and photos, Smug Mug is a clear option offering.

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/family/partneroffers/overview/index.html#smugmug

Although I have heard no problems for video to Smug Mug from Premiere Elements 4, I would have to get a good look at the Premiere Elements 4 Interface and view the actual options offered before I know for sure.

It should be a short time before the “pioneer” Premiere Elements 4 users fill us in on the hands on answer.

I worry that I might get into the pitfall similar to the old issue of DVD-VIDEO requiring a software in addition to Photoshop Elements to get the Photoshop Elements slideshow as a DVD-VIDEO.

I will post if I get any better info.

ATR

[DMurray407]

Thanks! I contacted SmugMug and this is what they told me:

"Thank you for contacting SmugMug. We were recently informed by Adobe
that the SmugMug support in PSE6 is still included. I don't have any
information on PRE4, but I wouldn't count on SmugMug support in there,
because the format we're currently using, is kind of outdated. It's
MPEG-1 and I'm not sure if this is supported at all in this program."