Product Description

Making great movies from your home videos on your personal computer has never been easier, or more fun, thanks to programs like Premiere Elements. Steve Grisetti, host of Adobe's Premiere Elements user-to-user forum and founding member of videomaker support site Muvipix.com, shows you all the tools in the newest version of Adobe's popular video editing software and how to use them to create movies that are as much fun to make as they are to watch. Special features include tips for making most efficient use of the program and your computer's resources and pointers to great tools in some not-so-obvious places.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #246835 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-17
• Binding: Paperback
• 174 pages

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 of several video editing programs and systems, Steve has been with Premiere Elements since its introduction and, since 2004, has served as host for Adobe's Premiere Elements peer-to-peer support forum. He is also the co-author (with Chuck Engels) of Premiere Elements in a Snap and is co-founder of Muvipix.com, a help and support site for amateur and semi-professional video editors. He has taught classes in Photoshop and design, and he currently works as a graphic designer and layout artist for the in-house ad agency of a large, Milwaukee-based investment firm. He lives in suburban Milwaukee with his wife and daughter.

Customer Reviews

Pearls for sale, only 10 cents each
My work consists mainly of creating "music videos" (slide shows set to music) that I output at WMV 720p using Photoshop Elements.

My limited use of Premiere is chiefly for the conversion of my WMV 720p slide shows to MPEG 1080i 30 format (MPEG2) either to play from my HDD on my HD monitor and TV, or, I use the MPEG2s to burn Blu-ray DVDs.

Despite the fact that I only skimmed those parts of Grisetti's book that are not currently relevant to my workflow (the chapters on Themes, Effects, Transitons, Titles, The Propeties Panel and Keyframng), I still found PLENTY of "pearls of information" to highlight with my yellow Sharpie.

Specifically, I counted more than 250 yellow highlights on the 161 pages, which works out to less than 10 cents a "pearl" (the book sells for $24.95).

Grisetti's previous "In a Snap" books were task-oriented, while this book is tool-oriented, that is, it covers how to use each of the many tools that are available in Premiere 7.

Now that I have both his task-oriented and his tool-oriented books by my three computers, I feel more capable than ever of "wow-ing" my clients with my music videos.

If you use ANY of the versions of Adobe Premiere Elements, whether 2.0 or 7 or one of the "in-between" versions, I would suggest that you get both this and his previous books. I currently use Premiere 4.0 while I'm waiting for my copy of Premiere 7 to arrive, nevertheless, I found both his older and his newer books to be packed with information that helps me use 4.0 more effectively.

My glowing review of Grisetti's new book
Even though I haven't upgraded to Premiere Elements 7 yet, I bought this book on PE7 to see if it would solve some of my problems with PE4. It did solve a lot of the problems I've been having, and I have only read a couple of chapters.

Just like the awesome Muvipix tutorials (available online by subscription at the http://www.muvipix.com website), this book is clear and concise. Best of all, it acknowledges the host of compatibility problems between PE and all other programs - including camcorder interfaces - and offers workarounds that really solve the problems, usually without having to buy any new software!

If you're laboring away trying to edit videos on the computer using Premiere Elements, you need this book. Trust me.

Brenda

OK for how to use tools...Not OK for here's how to do it
I bought this because it was one of the only books on Premier Elements 7 available at the time. Although I have not gone through the whole book yet, it struck me that this admittedly (by the author) a book on how to use each of the tools. As a relative newcomer, I was hoping for some examples on how to create some typical projects. Also, it is a pretty skinny book of only about 150 pages.

I have now finished a first reading of the book. This is DEFINITELY not the book to get if you are new to video editing. It is, however, a good reference book. I found the tips on type of camcorder, resizing photos, and file formats very helpful. There are many references to the muvipix web page for 'tips', but, you cannot get access to the tips unless you sign up for a membership. That is all well and good, but, premature for a beginner.

Bottom line: Decent reference book, bad 'how to' book.