Initially, I started out using Adobe Premiere Elements 13, but as a LOT of users of this software have discovered...and as Adobe has really admitted since it was released in late 2014, while the "front half" (ie. editing) of the program works flawlessly, the "back half" (ie. final output) has some problems. If you're outputting to a video file, you have nothing to worry about. On the other hand, if you're creating an ISO file, even though you get a "completion" message, in reality, it doesn't always create the ISO file. The biggest problem comes if you decide to output to a DVD or Blu-ray, as it almost always fails...and that's if you van even get it to start the burn phase. Out of approximately a dozen tries, it's only successfully burned a single DVD. All the other attempts successfully completed "steps 1 through 5", and appeared to have successfully completed the next step (can't recall at this exact moment what that step is called), but within two seconds of starting the final step - burning the DVD - the drive ejects the blank DVD, and I receive a "fail" notice. I can only assume that the reason it fails is due to the previous step having failed, despite it supposedly having been successful. For a period of three weeks, which ended about 1.5 weeks ago, I had been working with one of their senior program engineers (I live in the Bay Area, and Adobe's home offices are "within walking distance").
The point of the while "tirade" above is this...unless you're interested in using Adobe Premiere Elements 13 ONLY for creating a video file (after editing, obviously), and you have NO interest in creating an ISO file, or burning to DVD/Blu-ray, do NOT get Premiere Elements 13. The problems I've experienced never happened with previous versions, and according to Sandeep (one of the senior programming engineers on the Premiere Elements team), it won't be a problem with the soon-to-be-released version 14 (currently scheduled for an October/November release).
If you're willing to spend a little extra money, I highly recommend PowerDirector 13, as long as you get one of the top versions of it. Alternately, if you're able to find it, I can't recommend anything better than Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 (I'm just staring to learn how to fully utilize it, but knowing the power of Photoshop Pro CS6, I'm already expecting incredible results from Premiere Pro CS6).