What happened to Premiere Elements 5 and 6?

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

The technology world moves at such a Leopard-like pace that, after only a fortnight off, it’s easy to feel out of the loop.

Yet, when I returned from my cloud-addled holibubs this morning, I was beginning to wonder whether I’d been away two years rather than two weeks. Before I went away Adobe was trundling along on Premiere Elements 4. I come back this morning, and the company’s announced Premiere Elements 7!

Had those crafty Adobe folk launched 5 and 6 whilst I was rain dodging in Devon? No, the lovely PR manager explained, Adobe has simply decided to skip versions 5 and 6 so people don’t get confused when they see Photoshop Elements 7 bundled with its seemingly two-versions-behind video brethen, and think they’re being saddled with old software.

Glad nobody got confused then…