What's the verdict on PE8

[KrunkMcGrunk]

Most of the reviews of Premiere Elements 8 that I've read have been overwhelmingly negative. I gather that this is because of the conflicts with Asus/Nvidia hardware that caused quite a bit of instability early on in the software's release. Adobe has since released some patches trying to work out the problems, but I haven't heard if they've actually solved the issues people were having.

So, I wanted to start a thread here to ask if you any of you know if PE8 is still having stability problems, or if they've largely been solved.

I'm deciding on whether or not I should make the jump from Win XP to Win 7, and since PE7 isn't compatible with Win 7, I'd need to upgrade to PE8.

[KrunkMcGrunk]

No one has any experience with Premiere Elements 8?

[TreeTops]

I use it. Adobe has released only one patch and that patch fixed most of the problems that some people had experienced with editing.

[KrunkMcGrunk]

What kind of hardware are you running it on?

[TreeTops]

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