Product Description

This is the definitive guide to the new version of the world's top desktop digital video tool. It includes tutorials, tips, and tricks for editing digital video in Premiere -- as well as how to create special effects in Premiere and AfterEffects, Electrifier and other apps. Adobe Premiere 6 Bible demonstrates how to professionally integrate narration, music and/or sound effects with moving images; and shows you how to create digital video productions out of movies shot on a camcorder -- for home or business uses. Plus, you get a Mac/Windows CD-ROM loaded with video-based tutorials, a library of usable video clips and sample effects, useful video filters and utilities, and tryouts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #983640 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 648 pages

From the Back Cover
If Adobe Premiere 6 can do it, you can do it too … Packed with hands-on tutorials and illuminating examples, this comprehensive guide delivers all the know-how you need to edit, create special effects, and output professional-quality digital video with Adobe Premiere. From video capture and editing basics to transitions, type, transparencies, masks, mattes, motion effects, streaming media exports, After Effects embellishments, and more, digital video experts Adele Droblas and Seth Greenberg show you step by step how to make the most of Premiere — and get state-of-the-art digital video results.

About the Author
About the Authors Adele Droblas is an artist, writer, and computer consultant. She has produced digital video clips that appear on the Web for her clients. Seth Greenberg is a computer consultant, programmer, and author. He has worked as a television producer and scriptwriter.

Customer Reviews

A manual substitute
Being an avid Premiere user, I was eagerly waiting for its release. I bought this book here at Amazon as an used book. I was wondering why that user sold it off almost immediately when this book was released - a book which was as good as new with CD unopened. I knew the answer only when I received the package. It is nothing but a duplicate of the manual with little elaboration. It is good for only for those who don't own the legal copy of Premiere 6 and want a manual. For the rest don't bother with this book. The CD which I still haven't bothered to open it, contain nothing of significance - just some sample footage and trial versions of Adobe software (which comes with the original Adobe CD anyway or could be downloaded for free).

Problems on the CD-ROM
It is obvious that the authors of this book went to a lot of work to provide an excellent guide to Adobe Premiere 6.0.

Unfortunately, it appears that the quality assurance on the enclosed CD-ROM was close to zero. Specifically: a) there was supposed to be a SETUP function that would install all of the tutorial files, but there wasn't, so a manual install was necessary (no big deal), b) some files would not import into Premiere because they had the wrong extension, i.e., ".aiff" instead of ".aif" (not too big of a deal) and c) one of the tutorial files were just plain missing (kind of a big deal). This was Chapter 1. It's hard to get motivated about doing the rest of the tutorials when this was the initial experience.

After encountering these problems, I searched for a website where errata for the book was published, but I didn't find one mentioned in the book or by checking the Hungry Minds (the publisher) main website.

On the other hand, there is a chapter on putting video onto a CD-ROM and also information regarding the use of other tools such as Macromedia Director-topics that are interest to me.

Same Adobe manual, different cover
Agree with the other reviewer...this is simply the Premiere 6 Adobe user's manual with the bible cover. The only real diference is that they use more pictures (screenshots) to illustrate. I read the Adobe manual, and it was fairly useless. I looked at this book for about 30 minutes at the university bookstore and it literally followed the same sequence as the manual. Clearly, not worth $40+ as there are better books available.