Customer Reviews

Adobe LiveMotion 2.0 Classroom in a Book

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Some books go on and on about the basics of a program while others get extremely technical very quickly. The 'Adobe LiveMotion Classroom In A Book' is a perfect balance of these two techniques. Each lesson introduces you to different tools and their applications, gradually getting deeper into LiveMotion's amazing abilities. The lessons also encourage you to experiment, giving you even more experience and knowledge. This is definitely a great book for any owner of Adobe's LiveMotion!

It's a book that gives beginners to Adobe products a good idea how the tools are used (tools that are pretty universal in all Adobe products) while allowing those experienced with items in the Adobe line of programs a chance to get right into learning the program!

It's bad enough that the manuals Adobe ships with products are of little use but it's an absolute insult that you buy an after-market book which is published by Adobe only to find it too is riddled with mistakes, omissions, silly tututorials (not all) that have little to do with 'real world' web development situations.

I returned mine and got a refund so a big Thank You to AMEX for protecting their card holders.

I found this book and it's accompaning CD to be be an excellent guide in helping me to learn how to use the software to its fullest potential. Prior to purchasing this book and CD, I was using the software for well over a month and half. Nevertheless, I learned something new in every chapter.

This book and CD is well worth the price. Users of all levels will benefit from the material presented in some or all of the 16 lessons. It is a must have for new users.

I've only gone through Lesson 5 and part of Lesson 6 and I've found several errors. Some are omissions, some might have been product changes while the book was being published. The omissions are unforgivable. You cannot just click on one keyframe, drag the current-time marker to another place and then change Transform settings and expect something to happen. You need another keyframe. These omissions have occurred at least 5 times now in 21 pages.

I want my money back.

If you buy this book, you should have already dinked around with the program or you're SOL. Otherwise, you'll be quite PO'd. (If you don't know these abbreviations, ask a sailor or someone.)

I'm extremely disappointed with LiveMotion 2.0 classroom in a book. I've had really great luck with other classroom books, but this one is terrible. I totally agree with all the other negative reviews of this book, don't buy it! A 10 year old could do a better job then the writers of this book did!

Adobe writers simply do not know their product, nor do the techs.
I find many errors, and agree with the review from Plano.

Not bad, all in all. Still...this series has a habit of pointing you back to the book that came with the product. But for those familiar with other Adobe software, or with this book series, will find this book to be quite useful.

This book, at long last, deals with actions, and offers cool tricks to do with them -- scrolling maps, MP3 music players, etc.

I was looking for this elsewhere, but couldn't find it.