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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.5930285536
EAN: 9780596803360
Feature: ISBN13: 9780596803360
ISBN: 0596803362
Label: O'Reilly Media
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: 2009-10-23
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Studio: O'Reilly Media
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Editorial Reviews:
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Whether you're aiming for YouTube videos or Hollywood-style epics, you need what Premiere Elements can't provide: crystal-clear guidance and real world know-how. This Missing Manual delivers. Packed with great ideas on how to spiff up your footage, this book helps you avoid the dreaded Help! I Never Do Anything With My Video syndrome.With this book, you'll learn how to use Premiere's two approaches to filmmaking: The quick-and-easy InstantMovie technique, and the classic, handcrafted approach for frame-by-frame editing with fine-tuned transitions, effects, and more. Premiere expert Chris Grover combines a touch of humor with insights, tips, and tricks culled from years of moviemaking experience to help you release your inner Scorsese.Create movies from start to finish with hands-on, step-by-step instructionsUse InstantMovie to whip up a video ready for prime timeLearn frame-by-frame editing to handcraft your story like the pros doShare your movie by saving it to disc, uploading it, or emailing itAdd video effects that dazzleUse keyframes to precisely control cuts, special effects, and soundTap Premiere's automated tools to analyze, organize, and rate your clips
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good but...
Comment: Adequate manual. I think I actually prefer the "dummies" version. Neither could tell me how to do a very simple "cut out and save" a short clip from a long clip. Luckily found [...] which is a fabulous forum.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good reference
Comment: 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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Summary: Specifically for Premiere Version 8
Comment: This is one of the few third party books available on Premiere Elements, as opposed to the dozens on Photoshop elements. This one is the best I was able to find as far as being comprehensive yet accessible to the novice film editor. But I had purchased Premiere 7 not long ago, and found that the features of Premiere 8 shown in the missing manual made me want to go ahead and upgrade immediately. Premiere 8 is a significant improvement over version 7; if you've got 8, this book is helpful, but I would not recommend it for previous versions.
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Summary: Excellent operating manual for adobe Premiere Elements 8
Comment: 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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Summary: helpful
Comment: I am new to Adobe Elements. This book is helpful, or should I say, necessary, for a beginner like me. I'm not computer illiterate, but am not motivated to sit here for hours figuring things out. So the book is helpful to get started. However, I sure wish there were other books on the market to fill in the gaps of this book.
It is easy to read and understand, lots of helpful suggestions. Just doesn't 'cover it all' for me. Guess that's not unusual for this type of manual.
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