The Muvipix.com Guide to Adobe Premiere Elements 8: (B&W version) The tools, and how to use them, to create great videos on your home computer [Paperback]

Steve Grisetti (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 20, 2009

From the basics of video editing with Premiere Elements, like capturing your media and building a timeline, to advanced functions, like creating customized effects, Steve will show you: * How to use all the new tools in version 8, including Motion Tracking, the Effects Mask and the new Add Media functions. * The advantages, and the challenges, of the new Background Rendering, Auto Enhance and Auto Analyzer tools. * How to take advantage of Premiere Elements 8's new full-featured Organizer and links to Photoshop.com. * How to use themes, effects, transitions, titles and music to make your home videos look like Hollywood features! * The wealth of tools available in not-so-obvious places. * The magic of keyframing, Premiere Elements' most versatile and powerful tool for creating motion paths and special effects. * How to use the tools in Premiere Elements to create and customize great-looking menus for your DVDs and BluRay discs.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Steve Grisetti holds a master's degree in Telecommunications from Ohio University and spent several years working in the motion picture and television industry in Los Angeles. A veteran user of several video editing programs and systems, Steve is the co-author (with Chuck Engels) of Premiere Elements in a Snap and the author of The Muvipix.com Guide to Adobe Premiere Elements 7, The Muvipix.com Guide to DVD Architect Studio 4.5 and The Muvipix.com Guide to Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements 7. Additionally, he is the co-founder of Muvipix.com, a help and support site for amateur and semi-professional videomakers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 236 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (August 20, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1448689422
• ISBN-13: 978-1448689422
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,396,964 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #34 in Books > Computers & Technology > Digital Photography & Video > Adobe Premiere Elements

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book on how to use Adobe Premiere Elelments., November 11, 2009

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G. Pecht "gpecht" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Muvipix.com Guide to Adobe Premiere Elements 8: (B&W version) The tools, and how to use them, to create great videos on your home computer (Paperback)

This book is a great companion to the newest version of Adobe Premiere Elements 8. The author Steve Grisetti , takes us on a guided tour of all the new features of the program and shows us how to use them.

But that is by far not all that the book has to offer. Steve explains all the different work spaces, tools, and effects available to the user. From starting a video project, capturing footage, editing and applying effects and transitions, adding narration and music to your video, and the different ways of outputting your video, you will find it all covered in detail in this book.
And if you still want more, there are suggestions on how to deal with possible problems you might encounter and other programs to use when Premiere Elements does not like your video footage.

You will find also solutions on how to optimize your computer for editing . There is even a list of all the handy keyboard shortcuts for Premiere Elements at the end of the book.
I highly recommend this book , it has been very helpful to me and I have used the program since version 1. I still learned something new and it especially helped me to find where all the tools are hiding in the new user interface.

But, I would like to point out, that someone unfamiliar with video editing might need some additional help and should check out the tutorials on the Muvipix web site to get started with the program.