Sams Teach Yourself Premiere 6.5 in 24 Hours (Paperback)

by Jeff Sengstack (Author)

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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Premiere in 24 Hours offers practical advice from an author with a strong writing background, solid teaching experience, and extensive television production credentials.

Rather than simply presenting a collection of disconnected lessons, Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Premiere in 24 Hours always reminds its readers of the big picture and what they're trying to accomplish. The book includes not only instruction on the basics of using Premiere, but also tips on shooting high quality video, creating professional voice-overs, and effective methods.

Adobe Premiere brings high-end video editing to the PC (90% of Premiere users use Windows). Anyone with a Windows PC who wants to venture into anything more than very simple video editing will eventually turn to Premiere.

The planned new version of Premiere (slated for release in late summer 2002) will garner significant attention in part because it will add DVD authoring to its extensive feature set. The opportunity to create DVDs-from home movies to Hollywood productions-on PCs is a dramatic development, and Premiere will be at the forefront of the emerging technology. The author has been working closely with Adobe, advising them on DVD software issues.

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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Premiere in 24 Hours offers practical advice from an author with a strong writing background, solid teaching experience, and extensive television production credentials.

Rather than simply presenting a collection of disconnected lessons, Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Premiere in 24 Hours always reminds its readers of the big picture and what they're trying to accomplish. The book includes not only instruction on the basics of using Premiere, but also tips on shooting high quality video, creating professional voice-overs, and effective methods.

Adobe Premiere brings high-end video editing to the PC (90% of Premiere users use Windows). Anyone with a Windows PC who wants to venture into anything more than very simple video editing will eventually turn to Premiere.

The planned new version of Premiere (slated for release in late summer 2002) will garner significant attention in part because it will add DVD authoring to its extensive feature set. The opportunity to create DVDs-from home movies to Hollywood productions-on PCs is a dramatic development, and Premiere will be at the forefront of the emerging technology. The author has been working closely with Adobe, advising them on DVD software issues.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 648 pages
• Publisher: Sams (September 19, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672324288
• ISBN-13: 978-0672324284
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #693,800 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This item is part of The Sams Teach Yourself Series.

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39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Beginner's Book: Experienced Users Still Craving More, January 3, 2003

By	PETER MCDERMOTT "Peter" (Germantown, TN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In response to the reader from South Florida, Teach Yourself Adobe Premiere 6.5 in 24 Hours is for beginning Premiere users. However, as a Digital Video editor (DVE), I would strongly advise that you use an easier program to start learning the basics of non-linear editing (NLE). Adobe Premiere, like many other Adobe products, is a professional and prosumer grade product. It's not intended for Aunt Nancy and Uncle Pete to use for making the yearly Thanksgiving family home video. It has commercial and industrial applications in news rooms, independent film studios, and freelance video production companies, such as my own.

I have been using Premiere for about a year now. I started on Premiere 6 and just upgraded to 6.5 hoping that the claimed "real-time" affects would really work, however I was disappointed. If you're new to the Adobe Premiere 6.5 editing system, I would suggest you pick up this book before any other. It does an excellent job of outlining every aspect of not only the software, but video editing in general.

In the first few "hours" you'll learn about video production. Shooting in "thirds," minding your audience and reserving transitions for times only when they are necessary. In the later chapters or "hours" you'll find great information and an excellent introduction to the editing environment. Everything is spelled out, and each feature is identified in the book.

However, as an experienced videographer and Digital Video editor, I think others will concur. Some of the features in Adobe Premiere are a bit "hokey" and amateur. Get your hands on a copy of Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects Production Bundle if you plan to be putting out any commercial pieces, the effects and "titler" in Adobe aren't really up to your audiences expectations. However, for the home user that just had to get this software title, or the new digital editor trying to familiarize themselves with Adobe's revamped editing environment I would really recommend this book as your first read to Adobe Premiere 6.5

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The power of Premiere 6.5..to the point...., October 1, 2002

By	Alan Hamill (CA, USA) - See all my reviews

I would like to recommend this book to anyone entering the world of Digital Video Editing. One of the biggest hurdles a beginner encounters is the sparsity of practical, easily digestible, easy to use information and techniques.
Of course there are other good books on the market in additional to this one but as the title says...."Teach Yourself Adobe Premiere 6.5 in 24 Hours" and this book fills a previously vacant slot in the market.
As mentioned earlier it's replete with practical step by step examples which are not only easy to follow but Jeff also provides the relevance, the context, of using specific techniques and methods. It's not enough to simply show what Premiere can do, rather it's crucial to convey a sense of what you can do and when to do it, that is the important difference.
And it's not only about cutting video together, Jeff explores good design practice using the new Adobe Title Designer for broadcast quality titles, he delves into the exploding area of multiple formats including DVD production using the new Adobe MPEG2 exporter, basically he provides a detailed overview of Digital Video Technology using Premiere 6.5 as the engine.
In conclusion I would thoroughly recommend the book to anyone wishing to get up to speed as rapidly as possible in using the power and flexibility of Premiere 6.5. Buy this, you won't be disappointed.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect! :-), March 12, 2003

By	"enokling" (Oslo Norway) - See all my reviews

Got me up and running in record time, and does not spend ages on to much detail in the beginning. Also offers those important tips that keeps your production from looking like a beginners, and warns you about the slight bugs and problems with Adobe Premiere and how to solve them. Also asks the important question: Is this logical? Several times and points out the ilogical aspects of Premiere.