Customer Reviews

Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 Classroom in a Book

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This book is an excellent source of learning Adobe Premier Pro CS3. I'm new to Premier Pro CS3 (and new to movie editing software) and I find this book great for beginners who want to get a solid understanding of how the software works.

The book is structured in a manner for easy understanding of the working mechanism of movie editing. Fundamentals are covered well at the beginning, except for a chapter about "Adobe On Location" which I think should be put near the end rather than the beginning of the book. More advanced topics such as changing time, compositing techniques lead readers to a lot of potential technique-based creativities, and fit in the right place of the book.

Ideas on cutting videos, handling transitions are presented very clearly. The audio editing and mixing chapters are very nice, showing some of the cutting techniques used by professionals. Two chapters that I find particularly impressive are "Using Photoshop and After Effects to Enhance Your Video Projects" and "Authoring DVDs with Adobe Premier Pro CS3 and Encore CS3", as they really show just-right level of details for the integration of Premier Pro to other Photoshop, After Effects and Encore. Before I read these chapters I've never thought integration with these Adobe software are that easy, and more importantly, powerful.

There are, however, quite a number of minor problems in this book. First, there are quite some typos in a few chapters related to the exercises. These typos make readers difficult to follow the exercises. Second, as I mentioned before the chapter on "Adobe On Location" should not be placed near the beginning of the book. Otherwise, I would have given this book a 5-star.

I bought this book looking for the best guide using Premiere CS3 to create my movies, but in many cases my answers where not there, but on online forums. This book is very basic and somewhat limited. The audio section of the book is almost non-existent and it mainly tells you how great Adobe Soundbooth is for fixing audio. Well, that's nice but Soundbooth is another program sold separately. In general I was not very happy with this purchase.

This book is very well at what it does for the novice. The pages are full of color and easy to read. This book walks you through how to use the interface while learning the basics of editing. The CD, included with this book, includes some very helpful exercises as well.

I highly recommend this book for new user to Premiere Pro. For the intermediate user and above, I would recommend searching for a more advanced level than this book.

I have purchased the adobe after effects book so I was pretty comfortable with the way the book was written. Like any book you really have to go through the thing step by step to get a good feel for the system you are working with. There is a decent index that can help you find whatever concept you are trying to figure out. Overall it is a decent starting point for people new to video editing.

Great chapter on Encore. Since Adobe combined Encore with Premiere Pro there are not many Encore CS3 books.

However, while working through Lesson 4-2 from the DVD, the Photoshop layered images needed to complete the exercises were missing from their folder.

This book arrived on time. Brand new, colorful illustration. Has DVD as it suppose to. From Adobe press, Fair price, Excellent. there are some on the website offer this kind of book for very little amount of money but be aware they are just a digital copy mostly stolen from database. There you will not get a printed book and dvd(They advertise as a hard copy with big banner but somewhere they will have fine print that says digital.

I don't even know what happened to this stupid book. I bought it for a class and I think I cracked it open once.

These classroom in a book things are okay if you're just completely ignorant about a program but there's plenty of tutorials and information online. Only get this book if you're the type of person who just has to have a physical book to learn or you need it for a class.

Also this is for CS3 and at the time of this review the current version is CS5 so this book won't even be a big help to anyone right now unless they have the old version (Which you shouldn't because CS5 is really, really awesome).

P.S. This book also isn't a very good value considering all the information you can get for free.

I learned first Final Cut from Apple. An I'm Using Adobe Premiere with Apple. The Book it's really what i have to be. GREAT. The program is another thing... the good point it has is the linked connection between all the rest adobe programs. But For Mac users is a shame that most of Plugins doesn't work fine with it. But the Book is Great.

I've used micro-computers, personal computers, PCs, whatever you want to call them, since 1984. I have Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Master Collection. I use it for my video production and photography. I teach video production and photography. The books are really good for how I work.

good book although there are some mistakes that make readers confused about the sources that they refer to.