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Excellent operating manual for adobe Premiere Elements 8, March 18, 2010
This review is from: Premiere Elements 8: The Missing Manual (Paperback)
I first tried "Premiere Elements 8 For Dummies" by Keith Underdahl and found it lacking., finding its style lackadaisical - and in many ways, just plain lacking.
Chris Grover's book, on the other hand, jumps right into things with a quick tour of premiere Elements and familiarizes you with the program, leading you to the completion of an "InstantMovie". This is more satisfying than the approach taken in the Dummies book.
Grover then takes the reader on a more detailed excursion through Premiere Elements, beginning with importing video, sound, still pictures and animation. He then moves into using Premiere Elements to organize your media assets. I disagree with the placement of this chapter for my preference would actually be to have it as an appendix. But logically it does flow properly even though I suspect most people will not make significant use of these features.
Thirty or so pages on editing come next. There are plenty of illustrations, which is very helpful.
The balance of the chapters in this section cover adding transitions, effects and themes and animated effects and titles, closing with a section on editing your sound track.
Grover's writing style is clear and generally concise. He includes a lot of very useful information and often, but helpfully, refers to other programs and resources that may be useful.
In the final part, Grover covers getting your finished projects to the web, CD, DVD and devices like the iPod.
There are also two handy appendixes covering the menus in detail for both Premiere Elements and its companion Elements Organizer program.
Finally, there is a site for downloading video material to use in the lessons provided, as well as other materials.
In sum, this is a complete instructional manual on how ot use every aspect of Adobe Premiere Elements 8. You can read it in bits and pieces, use it straight through as a course or just dip into it as a reference. It works on all levels.
Well worth the price.
Jerry
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Good reference, July 12, 2010
This review is from: Premiere Elements 8: The Missing Manual (Paperback)
This is my third "Missing Manual" and like all of them very helpful. It's much easier to use than Adobe's "Classroom in a Book", especially when you need to quickly find a specific topic. I only wish that Premier Elements 8 itself was stable enough to use with confidence. Great book supporting a bad program.
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14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent Manual, November 29, 2009
This review is from: Premiere Elements 8: The Missing Manual (Paperback)
Like all the other books in the Missing Manual series this is a must have for me and my employees. Even with our vast experience in Website Design and Audio/Visual production we constantly find ourselves referencing these easy to use Missing Manual books and now we have Premiere Elements to add to our collection. Even as a professional editor with over 30 years experience and well versed in Final Cut Pro, I find this book simplifies every step for a comprehensive understanding of using motion picture, animation and graphics not only for our own family home movies but more importantly for our business needs. We work primarily in Mac but because we are constantly creating websites for our clients we need to understand and create for PC and these Missing Manual books have been a life saver. Bravo!
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