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: #37812 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-17
• Binding: Paperback
• 174 pages

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

Manditory Reading for PE7
I decided to try PE7 after my other editing program began to fail me in reliability and support. PE7 is a great and powerful program but the price you pay for this power is a program that I found less intuitive to use straight out of the box. I have been editing and authoring projects for years and quite frankly was ready to throw in the towel with PE7 as the documentation included for its use is useless. The help menu directs you to an adobe website for searching and I found some answers but I'm the kind of guy who needs a paper medium and highlighters to learn and retain.

Enter this book by Steve Grisetti taking you from project startup to completion in a clear and easily understood way. It is obvious that the knowledge and tips he provides in the book comes from practical experience with the software. I leared alot about workflow and file types that helps me not only with PE7 but with all the NLE programs that I use. Near the end of the book is a section of suggestions of how to configure your computer best for editing and suggested 3rd party utilities (most of them free) to download to assist and enhance your project.

The last and to me the best part of the book was the information that the author along with several others have a website at www.muvipix.com dedicated to people who find video editing enjoyable like me. The user forum has become a part of my morning reading routine. I have even asked for help on this forum and had Steve Grisetti himself respond. Its not a suprise though because he and others are active contributers on a daily basis.

Long story short, I would recommend the book to anyone interested in getting started with PE7. In fact I don't know if I would have stuck it out with PE7 had it not been for this book to get me going in the right direction.