Customer Reviews

Adobe Premiere Pro 2 Bible, with DVD

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(2)

 

 

This book started out great. After some explanation, it guided me through a simple video editing project in the first chapter that worked and communicated some basic ideas. It got me excited about learning more and then it disappointed me bitterly.

The rest of the book does not teach the way the first chapter does. It does do a systematic and fairly thorough job of explaining things in the interface but the usable examples are few and far between. This works well for some people but not for me. I learn better by doing along with the reading. This guide is woefully inadequate for that. Still, it is a handy reference. It's too bad I will have to further my training elsewhere.

I looked around for awhile, before I bought this book. I wanted a book that would teach me step by step on how to edit with Premiere Pro. Never having any knowledge on how to use Premiere Pro, this was what I needed to start editing Wedding Videos.
The book covers everything, from basics to more advance tutorials. The great thing about this book is that it comes with a DVD with all that you need to get you started. It comes with free trial versions of Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Encore DVD, Photoshop etc... The down side is that the Trial Versions only last 30 Days after instaling on your PC. So that means you have only 30 days to Complete your Tutorials. It's a thick book, but it's 100% comprehensive. Great for Begginers...

I've worked wirth and recommended the past several editions of this book -- and each one has been better than the last. With the Premiere Pro 2 edition, Droblas and Greenberg have raised the bar even further, with even more comprehensive information and valuable insight on workflow, special effects and creating smoothly running, professional looking digital video. The enhanced information on creating animated menus is especially valuable. I'm using this in my own work, as well as recommending it to my students.

As a novice Premiere user, I found this book to be thorough and comprehansive. It provided all of the information I needed to get going, and I've referred to it many times in the past couple of months when I just needed a guidance on a particular situation. Some of the screenshots are dark, but still useful if not highly aesthetic. The files on the DVD are very useful.

Contrary to one of the reviews listed here: If you have the latest version of QuickTime installed on your PC, you should have no problem loading the Premiere Pro tutorial files. Most of the Tutorial files in the Premiere Pro Bible are high quality QuickTime DV files which are compatible with Premiere Pro.

Clearly this is a well orchestrated presentation to learning Premiere Pro. Nice also because it covers more than the video application, with excerpts from Audition, Photoshop, After Effects. However, I was disappointed it did not cover importing stills adequately. Exporting stills from Premiere is covered well. But in a book of this scope it should certainly be comprehensive - something I cannot claim it is. Best to use this with the user manual.

The Bible series are such a great study aid! This must be my fourth Bible book for software study aids. Did I mention Amazon merchants had the very best price for a new (used) book in perfect shape?

I recently received this book to help me become familiar with Premiere Pro. It is great for someone getting started and includes a wide range of topics. While I generally prefer color, the black and white illustrations are proving to be most helpful and provide clarity while learning this software.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 Bible is a great tutorial. I especially appreciate the dvd that accompanies the book. They give you audio and video files to use as you advance chapter by chapter. It is pretty much written to help the novice person (like me) grasp the basic understanding of the program but also contains all the detail a much more advanced user would enjoy. I am very happy with this book.

This book is a wonderful resource to have if you're using CS3. Only other things I could find were basic lessons that produced very specific products; this lets me look things up as I need them. You can skim, read complete sections, whatever you need.