Adobe Premiere Pro: Complete Course [Paperback]

Donna L. Baker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 6, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0764543490 | ISBN-13: 978-0764543494

Written by a Premiere Pro expert and illustrated throughout in full color, this Complete Course shows you how to master the full range of Premiere Pro tools and techniques while working on a single project. Twelve sessions and more than eighty step-by-step tutorials, accompanied by vivid color images and screen shots, walk you through the creation of a ninety-second, professional- quality video from start to finish. After completing the course, you'll have an impressive portfolio piece and a thorough understanding of Adobe Premiere Pro fundamentals.
* Use effects and transitions to change the action from scene to scene.
* Use multiple sequences to create complex nested effects.
* Use the Title Designer to create sophisticated titles.


CD-ROM Contents
* Bonus session featuring tutorials that explain how you can create your own version of titles and graphics used in the project
* Bonus discussions on additional Premiere Pro features, methods of exporting, and special effects
* Tryout version of Adobe Audition, demo versions of Borix FX and Boris CONTINUUM Complete, and a demo version of SpiceMASTER
* All the files and materials you need to complete the video project


System Requirements: See the About the CD-ROM Appendix for details and complete system requirements.

Seybold Seminars, Publications & Consulting is the leading brand helping graphic design and Web professionals understand and work with the latest digital technologies.

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From the Back Cover

Written by a Premiere Pro expert and illustrated throughout in full color, this Complete Course shows you how to master the full range of Premiere Pro tools and techniques while working on a single project. Twelve sessions and more than eighty step-by-step tutorials, accompanied by vivid color images and screen shots, walk you through the creation of a ninety-second, professional- quality video from start to finish. After completing the course, you’ll have an impressive portfolio piece and a thorough understanding of Adobe Premiere Pro fundamentals.

• Use effects and transitions to change the action from scene to scene.
• Use multiple sequences to create complex nested effects.
• Use the Title Designer to create sophisticated titles.

CD-ROM Contents

• Bonus session featuring tutorials that explain how you can create your own version of titles and graphics used in the project
• Bonus discussions on additional Premiere Pro features, methods of exporting, and special effects
• Tryout version of Adobe® Audition, demo versions of Borix FX and Boris CONTINUUM Complete, and a demo version of SpiceMASTER
• All the files and materials you need to complete the video project

System Requirements: See the About the CD-ROM Appendix for details and complete system requirements.

Seybold Seminars, Publications & Consulting is the leading brand helping graphic design and Web professionals understand and work with the latest digital technologies.

About the Author

Donna L. Baker is a design consultant, instructional video producer, trainer, and information designer. She is the author of Adobe® Premiere® 6.5 Complete Course, HTML Complete Course, CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver ® f/x & Design, Acrobat ® 5: The Professional User’s Guide, and Acrobat ® 6: The Professional User’s Guide.

Product Details

• Paperback: 390 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (January 6, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764543490
• ISBN-13: 978-0764543494
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 1 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,844,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book sucks Do Not Waste Your Money, April 14, 2005

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Buddy Atlantis "usernickname" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Premiere Pro: Complete Course (Paperback)

This book is horrible. I have read the book and worked through the tutorials up to chapter 3. Up to this point there have been numerous mistakes in the tutorials. At least 10 so far including timing, errors in the speed settings, the program used is a beta verison or something that makes it confusing right from page 1. It left me wondering if my Adobe Premiere Pro was installed incorrectly ... the disc included doesn't put all the files in the correct places when it tells you to download it to your PC. The video footage that you have to edit is shot by some piece of junk camera and is choppy (no its not my computer - P4 3.2 Ghz, 2 GB RAM blah blah blah my computer is awesome) The only thing good about this book is that I actually have to think for myself and figure out what is wrong with the problems when stuff doesn't work out ... but you know what ... thats not very helpful when I am trying to learn the stuff for the first time. If your thinking about buying this book then you need to rethink. You will have a better chance with another book or if you just boot up the program and play with it blindly. This does give me hope that one day I can also write a book about a subject I know nothing about and then sell it to people at an outrageous price. In closing don't smoke crack like the author of this book did!!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A good idea, but sloppy implementation, November 15, 2004

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Nicholas Cole (Paris France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Premiere Pro: Complete Course (Paperback)

The idea is good; teach the use of the functional capabilities of Premiere Pro for artistic expression; the execution is lamentable, starting with the initial creation of a project, where apparently the author had a beta test product which doesn't correspond to the final release.
If you're giving step-by-step instructions, then get them right; as it is, the projects implemented by the student get way out of sync with the baseline projects provided on the CD-ROM (which doesn't install correctly).

Jan 31, 2005

I reread the book in case I had been unjust in my original review. I entirely confirm what I said, but the problem is deeper than the fact that the examples are inaccurate; books with examples which don't work can force you into a more active state of mind than the somnolent passivity they tend to induce, and the examples finish up working, even if they often don't illustrate anything very important.
If you wish to use Premiere Pro well you have to understand it; that, for instance, you can edit audio for a complete track, or for an individual clip; nowhere is this explicit, and the level of presentation (click here, click there, press Control D, etc etc etc) tends to obscure it.
Sometimes I have the impression that the author doesn't understand the concepts; with numbering of frames in a clip starting at zero, the duration is the number of the last frame + 1, right ? Try reading the 4-color lavishly-illustrated sidebar on page 67, with excursions into whether the duration occurs before or after the frame is played and other irrelevant considerations; you end up doubting your intuition.
Same thing for the Clip Editing Options on page 91, where the illustrations simply obscure the issue.
At $45 list price the publisher should edit the book and check the examples.
One final point; only someone who hasn't read the book can give it 5 stars. There should be an explicit obligation to read in detail at least half a book before submitting a review.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This may not be the book for you., May 8, 2004

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Linda (Huntington Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Premiere Pro: Complete Course (Paperback)

At first glance the book looked pretty well written but you can't judge until you work through the tutorials. After going through the first few of them I decided to switch to another book due to the following problems.

The projects do not load correctly from the CD since some of the media files are in the wrong place and there are mistakes in the tutorials as well. The most recent mistake was when a clip was moved out of the way on one page since it was not to be used until later, and then referred to on the next page as though it was not moved. Not only that, the space on the timeline where it was suposed to be was occupied by another clip.

It is discouraging to follow a tutorial for quite a while only to get lost. I tried it several times to make sure it wasn't I who was the problem.

The book does contain some fine examples including the Confidence Builder at the beginning but more time should have been taken to test all of the tutorials.