How to Use Adobe Premiere 6.5 [Paperback]

Douglas Dixon (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0789728265 | ISBN-13: 978-0789728265 | Publication Date: December 30, 2002 | Edition: 1

How to Use Adobe Premiere 6.5 is the fastest and easiest way to get started with Premiere, whether you're new to video editing or stepping up to Premiere's professional features from another tool. With its color screenshots and straightforward descriptions, this book shows you all you need to know to effectively use Premiere to make your own video productions, including titles, transitions, and special effects. You also learn how to save your video productions in streaming video formats that facilitate sharing across the Internet or to burn to DVD.

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From the Back Cover

How to Use Adobe Premiere 6.5 is the fastest and easiest way to get started with Premiere, whether you're new to video editing or stepping up to Premiere's professional features from another tool. With its color screenshots and straightforward descriptions, this book shows you all you need to know to effectively use Premiere to make your own video productions, including titles, transitions, and special effects. You also learn how to save your video productions in streaming video formats that facilitate sharing across the Internet or to burn to DVD.

About the Author

Douglas Dixon is a technologist and author who works in the "Video Valley" of Princeton, NJ. As a technology leader at Sarnoff Corp., and previously as a software product manager at Intel, Doug has extensive experience developing multimedia and Web technology into consumer products. Doug is a contributing editor for Camcorder and Computer Video and Digital Photographer magazines, covering video editing and streaming media technology and tools, from DV to DVD, consumer to professional. He is active in professional activities and speaks at local, regional, and national meetings, from user groups to industry conferences.

Doug's other books include Desktop DVD Authoring (New Riders, Oct. 2002), and the previous edition of How to Use Adobe Premiere 6 (Sams, July 2001).

Although he writes about new and cutting-edge technology, Doug's focus is on making technology understandable and useful for real people. For more on these topics, see his Manifest Technology web site at www.manifest-tech.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Que; 1 edition (December 30, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789728265
• ISBN-13: 978-0789728265
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,097,571 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for beginners and not a step by step learning book., February 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Use Adobe Premiere 6.5 (Paperback)

I am totally new to Premiere 6.5 and thought this 'picture' book would take me by the hand and teach me step by step. It does not do that as it is more of a collection of 2 page 'How To' articles on various aspects of the program. I'm sure it's a good reference book to look up how to do individual steps, but it doesn't sit you down and take you through a learning process. This software is probably the most complicated I've ever had, and I've used Photoshop for 7 years. Very frustrating.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Reference, April 22, 2003

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David Goodell (Plymouth, Michigan USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Use Adobe Premiere 6.5 (Paperback)

This book is the BEST reference you can have by your side while editing in Premiere. Each feature of Premiere is presented pictorially on two pages. This way you can open the book to the part you need and proceed without ever having to turn the page. It is worth it's weight in gold. Do not confuse this book with a step by step learning type of book. This book will answer your immediate question without slowing down your progress on a project you are working on. For example, you are crusing along on your daughters graduation video and you decide you'd like to use "picture in a picture"...bam, flip to the two page PIP section and you've got a perfect how to.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Speed course on Premiere, September 26, 2004

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John Preble "UCM Museum Director" (ABITA SPRINGS, LA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Use Adobe Premiere 6.5 (Paperback)

Hey this book helped me out of a bind - big time. I had to get up and running on Premiere in only an hour. It walked me through the setups, etc. and got me going. This is not the end all book on the subject - but it did save my life. Sure the book could use more detail - but at the same time - this book is easy to use and very easy to understand. If you are new to the program - get it - and then later - if you are sticking with Premiere - get a more detail book.