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iMovie vs adobe prem elements for mac

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I have a huge amount of movies and pics of my mother. Would like to create a DVD using them in her memory and then be able to burn to a DVD to share with family.

In past I had taken course in adobe prem elements 4 and did a pretty good job of my projects.

My question is I was wondering anyone has experience iMovie and prem elements. iMovie is free but will the free one do as much as prem elements that I would have to buy.
 
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Depends what you want to do when you make your movie. I say movie because that's what you will be making initially because neither iMovie nor Prem Elements will give you a DVD at the end. You will need a DVD burning application for that.

iMovie should be sufficient for your needs initially, then you'll need either Burn(free) or Roxio Toast(not free) to make the DVD.
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html
http://www.roxio.com/eng/products/t...mwXhAi4alaR94AXKFLTZ7zRdpHHQiv1kyAaAs9z8P8HAQ
 
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Adobe Premiere Elements 15 does have DVD authoring built in.
Click to expand...
Oops. Sorry for that.
 
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Would either of you like to take my place in the I messed up line? A few more mistakes and they'll probably hand me a permanent parking spot at the head of the line.:[
 
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i will look into some burning software but don't want to spend a lot as I am only going to do this once and probably never do it again...but then again, who knows what the future holds.

mistakes - making and accepting, all in good fun.
many times i ask for help in a very unclear way...mainly cuz i really don't understand all that i am talking about
and don't know how to relay my question.

this is a marvelous forum and all works out in the end....
thank you all for great volunteer work!!!
 
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one more thing...when trfr files to macbook air...a little box with ball on stick is in corner...
what does that mean?

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