Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies
£24.70
Quiet on set! Time to start your moviemaking adventure — here’s what you need to know about capturing, editing, and publishing your videos
If you’re an amateur filmmaker shooting documentaries or a hobbyist putting together a family video, Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies is the book for you. From setting up a production studio and shooting good footage, to editing clips, adding effects, and working with audio, this user-friendly and comprehensive guide written in plain English can help you create your next video masterpiece and share the finished product.
This handy guide starts with the basics, getting you familiar with the Adobe Premiere Pro software and its interface and helping you set up your dream studio. From there, you’ll dive into capturing footage for your videos, learn how to manage multiple movie projects, and edit movies to your liking. You’ll learn to:
- Capture audio and video from your camcorder or video deck (if your computer has the right hardware)
- Pick and choose scenes to include in a movie, moving frame by frame through video to precisely place edits
- Add and edit (up to 99) audio soundtracks to your program
- Create titles and add still graphics to your movie projects
- Animate titles and graphics
- Apply one of 73 different transitions to video
- Modify your movie with 94 video and 22 audio effects
- Improve and adjust color using an advanced Color Corrector, new to this version of the software
- Use powerful new audio tools to mix audio, whether it’s mono, stereo, or 5.1 channel surround
- Work with multiple, nestable timelines
- Preview edits immediately in real time
Once you’re finalized your movie project, you can export it, save it to DVD, or publish it online. But that’s not all! With this helpful guide, you’ll learn pro movie-making tips, third-party software add-ons, and additional tools for your production studio. Pick up your copy and start shooting your film today.
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Additional information
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons, 1st edition (15 Mar. 2009) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 388 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 076454344X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0764543449 |
| Dimensions | 18.95 x 2.03 x 23.37 cm |
by PhillyJQ
Unlike another ‘novice’ book that I bought a decade ago, “Premiere Pro for Dummies” is better than the condescending title would lead one to believe (the other book mentioned was so snooty that it dismissed formatting a hard disk drive with “Don’t do it”, like it was beyond my capabilities -well, it was at the time if the book didn’t give me any guidance!).
Anyway, I’m still reading “Premiere Pro for Dummies”, so I can’t give a definitive review of it, but my first impression is that this book is just what I was looking for: something which would guide me without skipping over those little details & features of editing programs, which are very useful but remain a mystery for years, and, more importantly for me, wouldn’t make learning Premiere Pro tough going (the program has a very steep learning-curve as is -I need help, not sand in my eyes!).
The thing that almost dissuaded me from buying the book was the copyright date: 2004. I was fearful that the book would be woefully out of date. 2004 is about the time that Premiere Pro CS1 was released. I’m on CS3, and that was released about 2008. A lot of changes could’ve occurred during those four years. Well, not that many changes to make the ‘Dummies’ out-of-date. Whatever version you have or are planning to buy, this book will guide you through more than just the basics, and without the tears! If you’ve never used Premiere Pro before, start with this book.
by Vik
Arrived promptly. Was an appreciated gift even if the recipient was very surprised how much they knew (perhaps not a dummy but someone seeking confirmation).
by Robert S Macdonald
Woefully outdated, maybe there is a newer version out there. If there is they should stop selling this version.
Poor.
by Mikiephoto
It a great start and gets you through the jargon quickly
by Mrs. S. Short
Bought for son as this was recommeded by his tutor, he has used this several times now ideal, son is doing I-media
by Padraig Stevens
Published in 2004 when Windows XP was the latest operating system, and Premiere pro equally outdated. Don’t waste your money.
by Leah Ingleby
I’m sure this will still be helpful overall, but the pictures look like this was made for an older version of the software
by Amegan
I cannot commenton the content of this, because when I ordered this book, I never received it: it was delivered to the wrong address. I wrote to Amazon who was brilliant! They refunded me promto no problem.