Customer Reviews

Adobe® Premiere® 6.0: Classroom in a Book

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

Adobe premiere is an awesome product that is extremely diverse. The Classroom in a book will help you find your way through most of the main features and get familiar with them. I found it extremely helpful and was very happy with all the examples that are worked out nicely. For reference you will have a great guide in this book too. If you want to get into the nitty gritty and potentially advanced features you will not find all your answers and need to do your research elsewhere. Still the book is well worth its money and will get you off to a flying start!

I bought version 5 of Premiere CIB a couple years ago. I upgraded to Premeiere 6 in January, and I've been waiting months for version 6 of CIB to come out. Well, if you've got CIB 5, save yourself some money--everything is the same in the new version. Why they had to delay publication to come up with this is a mystery. Virtually all the lessons and source footage are exactly the same--except where some changes in the program menus require some different keystrokes.

If you haven't used the earlier version, this book would be worth 4, maybe even 5 stars. If you have version 5, this 'upgrade' rates a 1. I'll even it out for both types of users and give it a 3.

The Classroom in a Book series is great. It's a perfect starting point for beginners and is a great stepping stone to other books that teach you advanced things, a.k.a. layered basics that you didn't think of yourself.

I read Premiere 5.0 Classroom in a Book cover to cover and it is the exact same as this "updated edition." Everything except for adding audio/video effects, which just changed from a drop-down menu to drag-and-drop. I believe the book is well-versed and it taught me everything I need to know to use Adobe Premiere.

I assumed that since this book was written by Adobe, it would be terrific. Boy was I wrong. The exercises in this book are so convoluted. They make concepts that I later found out were quite simple seem unnecessarily complex. I walked away from this book not knowing much more than I did before I read it. Whoever designed these excercises definitely doesn't use the program professionally. It's too canned. In addition, this book was very expensive. Anyone want my copy?

The Visual Quickstart Guide for Premiere is 100 times more usefull than this book and half the cost.

Whoa! I see read some bad reviews for this book! And I totally disagreed with them. Sure some of you major in computer programming, engineer, and many other occupations. but your going to have to be realistic and realize that this is "premiere" this is NLE ( Non-Linear Editing) and if your not familiar with it. Of course your going to have difficulty learning it.

This book is great! This is the second adobe premiere book i got. I was intimidated by it at first so i bought "Adobe Premiere The Visually in full color 6.0" you know that book with pretty pictures. However i came to the point that if i really want to learn premiere i am going to have to challenge my self and i did that!

Its not impossible to learn adobe premiere! However its not simple either! If you want to just cut and paste and add transitions. That will take you less then an hour. However if you want to learn how to add effects, work with keys, over laying, audio, superimposing, etc., etc., etc. This is the book for you, In other words if you want to be a very experience user with premiere get this book! If you want a challenge get this book! If you want to make profesional Video get this book!

If you want to make simple home video, Just learn some of the basics, Cut, Paste, Transitions and compression. Or get Video Wave and graduate from it and come to premiere. ( I did )

I've been using Adobe products for about ten years, but I'm new to Premiere. I usually enjoy Adobe's Classroom in a book series, but there are a couple chapters where the instructions don't work. This is my most common complaint with technical manuals. I've been through the labs in Chapter 12 (the last chapter) three times now, and I can't get it to work the way they say it will.

Are they so busy they can't do the job right? I hate how much time I've wasted trying to make sense of their examples. There must be a better book somewhere.

Hmmm, I wonder who else from Nashville bought this book, and if they go to Watkins. Anyway...
I was very impressed by this book. The examples are clear and helpful, and basic questions are well answered. No, it's not exceptionally easy. It is not a "dummies" book, and I liked it all the better for it. Don't we all get to the point where we just get tired of that approach? If a book is challenging, I feel that I've learned something, and I don't think that Premiere is an easy program in the first place. A caveat: you will get much more out of this book if you understand why they set up the shots in their movie examples the way they do, and if you are studying how and why films work in their audio and visuals. Also, I haven't gotten to that infamous chapter 12 yet!

This book should be looked at as a companion to Adobe manual, or as a practical introduction to Premiere. It guides the user, which is assumed to be a complete novice in Premiere, step by step through hands-on lessons and explains along the way some ideas and principles of digital video editing. As all other "classroom in a book" manuals, it is very well edited proofread (which means that it contains very few errors - if the authors say "click on icon A in palette B", they mean exactly that) and all files which the book refers to can indeed be found on the enclosed CD (I saw so many books with some of the tutorial files missing...). Unlike some other reviewers, I had no problems reproducing the actions described in the book on the computer screen, as long as I was careful to reproduce the steps exactly as they are described.

All this said, this book is not intended to be used as an advanced level manual. While it touches to some extent all features of Premiere, it does not necessarily goes into details of all of them. One could definitely benefit from a combination of practical lessons offered by this book with insights that can be found in other books. But it is invaluable as a means of the first exposure to Premiere and as a way to get a basic practical training in Premiere in a short time.

The tutorial files and the structure of lessons are the same as in the earlier version of the book, "Premiere 5.0 classroom in a book". The difference in mostly in explanation of DV format, DV capture, and new features of the timeline and audio editing. This book can also be used for Premiere 6.5 since the difference is primarily in improved title editor and availability of MPEG2 export.

I read this book twice within a week, first time just reproducing step after step and trying to grab the concepts, and the second time playing around and experimenting. After these two readings, I feel that I have a good understanding of the program and understand its functions and procedures involved in digital editing to the level sufficient to apply this knowledge to practical editing.

I do believe that "learning by doing" is the best way to learn how to work with a piece of software. Therefore, I ranked it 5 stars - with a note "book for beginners"

I found the book so confusing I didn't know what I was doing for the longest time. I'm an advanced computer user, but new to the world of Premiere. This book kept me guessing the whole time, which is good if you like thriller novels, but not if you're trying to learn an editing program like Premiere.

The book goes through step-by-step instructions on how to edit simple films, but each step seems to include instructions and never an explanation on why you are doing what you are doing. They just kind of leave that part out. Eventually I understood what the book was trying to tell me, but only after I had already completed several chapters. I had to go back in the book and re-read each chapter so I understood what the chapter was saying and why.

I would never recommend this book to anyone. It's too bad the program is so good and this book is so terrible. Really, the program was based on the Industry standard AVID, which is excellent, but doesn't really need to be confusin. Too bad this book makes it confusing.

Whoa! I see read some bad reviews for this book! And I totally disagreed with them. Sure some of you major in computer programming, engineer, and many other occupations. but your going to have to be realistic and realize that this is "premiere" this is NLE ( Non-Linear Editing) and if your not familiar with it. Of course your going to have difficulty learning it.

This book is great! This is the second adobe premiere book i got. I was intimidated by it at first so i bought "Adobe Premiere The Visually in full color 6.0" you know that book with pretty pictures. However i came to the point that if i really want to learn premiere i am going to have to challenge my self and i did that!

Its not impossible to learn adobe premiere! However its not simple either! If you want to just cut and paste and add transitions. That will take you less then an hour. However if you want to learn how to add effects, work with keys, over laying, audio, superimposing, etc., etc., etc. This is the book for you, In other words if you want to be a very experience user with premiere get this book! If you want a challenge get this book! If you want to make profesional Video get this book!

If you want to make simple home video, Just learn some of the basics, Cut, Paste, Transitions and compression. Or get Video Wave and graduate from it and come to premiere. ( I did )