Adobe Premiere Elements 18 (Windows): The Best Video Editor Does It All For You

A no-brainer for novices, and handy for more experienced users, too.

- Samuel Axon

Adobe Premiere Elements 2018 offers most of the same basic video-editing features you’d find in other consumer packages, but it separates itself from the pack with tutorials and automatic curation and content-creation features that very nearly (but not quite) do all the work for you, as long as you don’t mind if your videos look generic.

It’s this easy access that makes Adobe Premiere Elements our top-rated consumer paid video editor. Read all of our video editing software reviews (go.pcworld.com/ vesr) to find out how we tested, what to look for, and more.

The main video-editing interface is broken into three views: Quick, Guided, and Expert. Quick and Expert are basic versions of the same video-editing experience you get in most other software. The latter exposes more options to you than the former.