Premiere 6 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guides)
Premiere 6 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guides) by Antony Bolante
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Number of Pages:
- 561
- ISBN:
- 0201722070
- Product Group:
- book
- Publisher:
- Peachpit Press
- Publication Date:
- April 4, 2001
- BooksForGeeks.com ID:
- 806
Adobe Premiere 6.0 is an impressive upgrade to a venerable digital video editing application, offering more professional features than ever. It can be intimidating for a novice, but Premiere 6: Visual QuickStart Guide for Mac and Windows eases the learning curve and helps new users get a handle on how Premiere works and how far it can take them. Like other books in the Visual QuickStart Series, this book is physically smaller and lighter than many computer books, which helps make it friendly and approachable. Every chapter is laid out in a clear two-column format, one for text and one for screen shots, and each tutorial is written in an easy-to-follow step-by-step format. (For a new user learning the basics of a program, there is no better series of books.) Upgrading from Premiere 4 to Premiere 5 was a major leap, and not without problems. The transition from version 5 to 6 is much easier--the interface hasn't changed much, many features have been fixed, improved, and new features added, and the feel of the program overall is much more solid. Because there are fewer features that are entirely new and more aspects of the program have been improved and made more robust, the book is free to teach about not only the basics of Premiere 6, but also editing (chapters 4 through 7), using the title tool (chapter 12), using effects and motion settings (chapters 9, 11, and 14), and audio mixing (chapter 10). Premiere 6: Visual QuickStart Guide for Mac and Windows makes learning this powerful tool seem more manageable. Hollywood may not be ready for your feature film, but at least you'll be ready for Hollywood. --Mike Caputo
Reviews for Premiere 6 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guides)
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More like visual slowstart.
Rated out of 5 stars, September 12th, 2001
I bought this book because it was the cheapest Premiere 6 book around and because I wanted to get using Premiere quickly. How wrong I was, admittedly I am a novice when it comes to Video editing, but this book didn't help at all. The DV editing chapter is almost at the end of the book and walk through tutorials would have been very useful. In the end the book confused me more and I began to read the Premiere 6 manual instead. Do your self a favour and put your hands deeper in your pocket and buy another book. -
A Thorough but not Quick Start
Rated out of 5 stars, June 12rd, 2001
I purchased this book just as I took delivery of a new PC system built around the Pinnacle DV500 capture board which comes with Premiere 6. I had hoped for a 'quick start' but was disappointed. The book is written by a Macintosh user and all screen shots, which are a grainy back and white, are from a Mac. However, the PC commands, which are basically identical, are also detailed in the text. The book is thorough and set out in a logical order, like an undergraduate text book. Every user is anxious to get started with the program and it would have been useful to have an early chapter which took you right through a basic edit, rather than waiting until you are halfway through the book before actually editing. The illustrations are there but buttons etc. are not adequately labelled for a beginner and I feel that the author expects some previous experience with Premiere on the part of the reader.I can recommend the book if you want thoroughness or are already using an earlier Premiere and just want to upgrade. For the beginner, expect a steep and long learning curve; don't expect the 'quick start' with a 'visual' approach that the title implies. In the end there is no substitute for a teacher with a program of this complexity and I have already enrolled on a local college course!