Adobe Premiere 6.5 Bible [Paperback]

Adele Droblas (Author), Seth Greenberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0764518305 | ISBN-13: 978-0764518300

* 100 percent of what people need to master the latest version of the world's most popular digital video editing application
* Covers the brand-new release of Adobe Premiere, including all of the latest features
* Offers tutorials, tips, and tricks for editing video in Premiere as well as how to create special effects in Premiere, After Effects, Electrifier and other applications
* Demonstrates how to integrate narration, music, and sound effects with moving images like a pro
* CD-ROM contains video-based tutorials, a library of usable video clips and sample effects, useful video filters and utilities, and Premiere tryouts for both Mac and Windows.

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"In addition to being a great resource, this book could have you competing with the big studios in no time." -- David Drain, Art Director, NBC's Access Hollywood

From the Back Cover

"In addition to being a great resource, this book could have you competing with the big studios in no time."
-David Drain, Art Director, NBC's Access Hollywood
* Capture dynamic images in digital video for output to PC, CD-ROM, or the Web
* Explore Premiere 6.5's many enhanced features for incorporating different media files
* Enhance your presentations and video projects with unforgettable special effects

If Adobe Premiere 6.5 can do it, you can do it too . . .

Here's your authoritative, cross-platform guide to editing and refining dynamic digital video with Adobe Premiere, the world's leading desktop digital video application. Packed with tutorials, tips, and tricks for getting the most from Premiere's amazing capabilities, it introduces you to Premiere 6.5 with a special Quickstart project and then takes you all the way to advanced techniques and special effects. With comprehensive coverage of all the enhancements in the newest version, this all-inclusive guidebook leads you from the basics to the secrets every digital video pro should know.

Inside, you'll find complete coverage of Adobe Premiere 6.5
* Develop digital movies, documentaries, sales presentations, and music videos directly from your desktop computer or laptop
* Output your digital video production to PC, CD-ROM, the Web, or videotape
* Integrate narration, music, and sound effects with moving images
* Discover how Premiere 6.5 works with Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and GoLive
* Turn movies shot with a camcorder into exciting digital video productions
* Build a production using JPEG and TIFF graphics as well as digital video and audio files

Bonus cross-platform CD-ROM

Tryout version of Adobe Premiere, raw video clips from lessons in the book, a library of usable video clips, and more

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Product Details

• Paperback: 736 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (November 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764518305
• ISBN-13: 978-0764518300
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,037,746 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Haste Makes Waste!, January 26, 2003

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W. Westlake (Phoenix, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Premiere 6.5 Bible (Paperback)

I think this was probably the first book on the market covering Adobe's new 6.5 version of Premiere and it's quite obvious.

Unfortunately even in the hands on "Quickstart" at the very beginning of the book there are several type-O's and incorrect wording. It's not spelling mistakes but incorrect words. As an example they tell you that you can preview the transition effect by "double-clicking the Transition icon in the Transition palette" when in fact you should double-click the Transition icon in the Timeline, NOT the Transition palette.

Additionally their numbers don't correspond when they tell you how long to make the example clips and where they should fall on the timeline.

There are several other examples just in the first few pages and for a newbie it makes following the example rather frustrating and confusing.

Since I'm only just this little bit into the book I can't say for certain if it gets better or worse or stays the same but it's very evident this book was rushed to market.

Funny enough too that even though the book is for Premiere 6.5 the CD includes a tryout version of Premiere 6.0!

There's no excuse for this kind of shoddy penmanship (typemanship??) and I highly recommend you wait for other books that are forthcoming - read: more thoroughly edited!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Starter, June 4, 2004

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Donald Vandalay (Toronto, ON) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Premiere 6.5 Bible (Paperback)

This book was very helpful in getting me started. I didn;t have a background in video but needed to do some work related projects. I found chapter 6 (editing audio) for seperating audio tracks helpful and chapter 7 (transitions) a big help for adding great effects to my videos!

It taught me what I needed to know about editting video with this powerful Adobe tool! Love the Bible series.