Creating Web Video with Adobe® Premiere® [Paperback]

Thomas Luehrsen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 4, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0201771845 | ISBN-13: 978-0201771848

These days, Web video isn't just for multimedia geeks. From news sites to indie film producers to major film studios, the Web is enabling filmmakers and broadcasters of all kinds to reach a vast audience. But producing quality video for delivery via the Web-movies that deliver the maximum punch per pixel—is no easy feat. This book helps you learn how to make your movies look great on the Web and gain access to an audience of millions.

Director and producer Thomas Luehrsen has been telling stories in film and video for over 15 years, including 10 years telling stories at teeny size—on CD-ROM and the Web. In Creating Web Video with Adobe Premiere, Luehrsen guides you through the entire process of creating video for the Web, from buying the right camera and microphone to deciphering the inner secrets of Web video compression. Along the way, he explains how to use the latest digital video equipment for seamless video capture, how to edit and compress movies with Adobe Premiere, and how to use Adobe GoLive to place them on Web pages and streaming servers. Read interviews with masters of Web video and take a guided tour of some of the best—and quirkiest—Web video being made today. The companion CD-ROM contains demo versions of Adobe Premiere and Adobe GoLive, as well as sample video and audio files for you to use in the tutorials throughout the book.

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These days, Web video isn't just for multimedia geeks. From news sites to indie film producers to major film studios, the Web is enabling filmmakers and broadcasters of all kinds to reach a vast audience. But producing quality video for delivery via the Web-movies that deliver the maximum punch per pixel—is no easy feat. This book helps you learn how to make your movies look great on the Web and gain access to an audience of millions.

Director and producer Thomas Luehrsen has been telling stories in film and video for over 15 years, including 10 years telling stories at teeny size—on CD-ROM and the Web. In Creating Web Video with Adobe Premiere, Luehrsen guides you through the entire process of creating video for the Web, from buying the right camera and microphone to deciphering the inner secrets of Web video compression. Along the way, he explains how to use the latest digital video equipment for seamless video capture, how to edit and compress movies with Adobe Premiere, and how to use Adobe GoLive to place them on Web pages and streaming servers. Read interviews with masters of Web video and take a guided tour of some of the best—and quirkiest—Web video being made today. The companion CD-ROM contains demo versions of Adobe Premiere and Adobe GoLive, as well as sample video and audio files for you to use in the tutorials throughout the book.

About the Author

Thomas Luerhsen teaches digital video and multimedia design classes at the San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies program and the San Francisco State University Cinema Department. He has devoted his career to the production of documentary media-both traditional film and video and interactive media. He now heads Elmwood Studios, a digital media design and production company in Berkeley, CA, specializing in digital video production, editing, compositing, and encoding for the Web, television, CD-ROM, and DVD.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press (October 4, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201771845
• ISBN-13: 978-0201771848
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,854,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Creating Web Video with Adobe Premiere, June 2, 2003

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D. Alphin (San Francisco Bay Area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creating Web Video with Adobe® Premiere® (Paperback)

This easy to follow book on creating video for the web was clear, organized and a great aid in understanding the subject of web video: from shooting the footage to getting it online, and addresses all he downloadable and streaming formats.

Although the title seems to target mainly users of Adobe Premiere, as a Final Cut Pro user I found it full of practical advice and step by step instruction that I easily converted for my own used with Final Cut Pro.

If you are a novice in the field of web video, and need straight-forward instruction and explaination -- if you are interested in understanding how to approach and implement your video projects and deliver them to an audience of online viewers, this is a necessary manual to have on hand. It will provide you the tools to get the job done, and inspire you in directions that you may have thought beyond the scope of your personal learning curve.

Kudos to Thomas Luehrsen and Creating Web Video!. I'll be looking for and hopefully finding other titles by this author in the future.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is excellent, an easy to understand and follow handbook, October 25, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Creating Web Video with Adobe® Premiere® (Paperback)

I have taken classes from Mr Luehrsen so I was confident that his
book would be just as great as his "in person" teaching. I wasn't disappointed. It's well organized, the information is detailed, easy to understand and implement. I'm happy to have made the purchase.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, December 2, 2002

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Daniel D Schwartz (Needham, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creating Web Video with Adobe® Premiere® (Paperback)

Well organized and very clearly written. Mr. Luehren covers all the bases and strikes a great balance between necessary detail and unnecessary geek-speak. The book is engaging without being overly cute, like so many how to books can be. I would highly recommend this book for beginners and experienced users alike.