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Written by a Premiere Pro expert and illustrated throughout in full color, this Complete Course shows you how to master the full range of Premiere Pro tools and techniques while working on a single project. Twelve sessions and more than eighty step-by-step tutorials, accompanied by vivid color images and screen shots, walk you through the creation of a ninety-second, professional- quality video from start to finish. After completing the course, you'll have an impressive portfolio piece and a thorough understanding of Adobe Premiere Pro fundamentals.
* Use effects and transitions to change the action from scene to scene.
* Use multiple sequences to create complex nested effects.
* Use the Title Designer to create sophisticated titles.

CD-ROM Contents
* Bonus session featuring tutorials that explain how you can create your own version of titles and graphics used in the project
* Bonus discussions on additional Premiere Pro features, methods of exporting, and special effects
* Tryout version of Adobe Audition, demo versions of Borix FX and Boris CONTINUUM Complete, and a demo version of SpiceMASTER
* All the files and materials you need to complete the video project

System Requirements: See the About the CD-ROM Appendix for details and complete system requirements.

Seybold Seminars, Publications & Consulting is the leading brand helping graphic design and Web professionals understand and work with the latest digital technologies.

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Product Details

Author:	Donna L. Baker
Paperback:	390 pages
Publisher:	Visual
Publication Date:	January 06, 2004
Language:	English
ISBN:	0764543490
Package Length:	8.9 inches
Package Width:	8.0 inches
Package Height:	1.1 inches
Package Weight:	2.45 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 8 reviews

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Average Customer Review: 3.0

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No proofreading? Sep 21, 2008
First off does anyone know if there has been corrections noted on the web some place? The books is riddled with mistakes. At first I was ecstatic the format was straight forward and easily read. Later none of the books steps corresponded to previous steps. That is unless you close the previous lesson that you have worked through and then open the next sessions pre-prepared version.

Just what I needed Mar 20, 2006
Exelent product, whith all the topics to learn from the begining to the end how to use the software.

Excellent, but only partly useful to me Aug 20, 2005
It is an excellent course and one can easily learn Premiere Pro with this book. But unfortunately the author uses
clips with the file type "mov" and my version of Premiere Pro(for an unknown reason to me)is not capable to import this type of clips from the CD to the program. Therefore from session 3 onward I cannot use the examples and lessons in the book.

3 of 3 found the following review helpful:

This book sucks Do Not Waste Your Money Apr 15, 2005
This book is horrible. I have read the book and worked through the tutorials up to chapter 3. Up to this point there have been numerous mistakes in the tutorials. At least 10 so far including timing, errors in the speed settings, the program used is a beta verison or something that makes it confusing right from page 1. It left me wondering if my Adobe Premiere Pro was installed incorrectly ... the disc included doesn't put all the files in the correct places when it tells you to download it to your PC. The video footage that you have to edit is shot by some piece of junk camera and is choppy (no its not my computer - P4 3.2 Ghz, 2 GB RAM blah blah blah my computer is awesome) The only thing good about this book is that I actually have to think for myself and figure out what is wrong with the problems when stuff doesn't work out ... but you know what ... thats not very helpful when I am trying to learn the stuff for the first time. If your thinking about buying this book then you need to rethink. You will have a better chance with another book or if you just boot up the program and play with it blindly. This does give me hope that one day I can also write a book about a subject I know nothing about and then sell it to people at an outrageous price. In closing don't smoke crack like the author of this book did!!!

3 of 3 found the following review helpful:

A good idea, but sloppy implementation Nov 15, 2004
The idea is good; teach the use of the functional capabilities of Premiere Pro for artistic expression; the execution is lamentable, starting with the initial creation of a project, where apparently the author had a beta test product which doesn't correspond to the final release.
If you're giving step-by-step instructions, then get them right; as it is, the projects implemented by the student get way out of sync with the baseline projects provided on the CD-ROM (which doesn't install correctly).

Jan 31, 2005

I reread the book in case I had been unjust in my original review. I entirely confirm what I said, but the problem is deeper than the fact that the examples are inaccurate; books with examples which don't work can force you into a more active state of mind than the somnolent passivity they tend to induce, and the examples finish up working, even if they often don't illustrate anything very important.
If you wish to use Premiere Pro well you have to understand it; that, for instance, you can edit audio for a complete track, or for an individual clip; nowhere is this explicit, and the level of presentation (click here, click there, press Control D, etc etc etc) tends to obscure it.
Sometimes I have the impression that the author doesn't understand the concepts; with numbering of frames in a clip starting at zero, the duration is the number of the last frame + 1, right ? Try reading the 4-color lavishly-illustrated sidebar on page 67, with excursions into whether the duration occurs before or after the frame is played and other irrelevant considerations; you end up doubting your intuition.
Same thing for the Clip Editing Options on page 91, where the illustrations simply obscure the issue.
At $45 list price the publisher should edit the book and check the examples.
One final point; only someone who hasn't read the book can give it 5 stars. There should be an explicit obligation to read in detail at least half a book before submitting a review.