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Summary: poorly organized, poorly conceived
Review: ...Being a new Premiere (and DV) user I picked up little bits and pieces from various sources and just want to learn some topics that are relavent to me, one at a time. In other words I want to "skip around" topic-wise. This book is terrible for that. You open up a chapter that has a title similar to what you want, and right off the bat he is [talking] about the project you were supposidly building up in previous chapters and referring to that. Also, somehow complex topics are reduced to a few pictures and even fewer words....[In my opinion,] Adobes "Total Training" tutorials (if you have the $$$) or the "Visual Quickstart" book are much much better.
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Summary: poorly organized, poorly conceived
Review: ...Being a new Premiere (and DV) user I picked up little bits and pieces from various sources and just want to learn some topics that are relavent to me, one at a time. In other words I want to "skip around" topic-wise. This book is terrible for that. You open up a chapter that has a title similar to what you want, and right off the bat he is [talking] about the project you were supposidly building up in previous chapters and referring to that. Also, somehow complex topics are reduced to a few pictures and even fewer words....[In my opinion,] Adobes "Total Training" tutorials (if you have the $$$) or the "Visual Quickstart" book are much much better.
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Summary: Good Stuff!
Review: After spending a week banging my head on a gate post with the Peachpit Visual QuickStart Premiere 6, which for anyone starting out is completely inpenetrable, I finally gave up. I hunted around all the major bookshops in London in the hope of finding a decent alternative, only to come up with nothing. Eventually my search led me to How to Use Premiere 6, which is an absolute godsend. I reckon to be up and running in no time.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: After wrestling with the program for more than a month, I was able to get it up and running in just a few minutes. After browseing in the book for 5 minutes I learned new tips and found the errors I was making. After ten minutes I was making a movie. The book is beautifully illustrated in color. The displays match the computer images perfectly. Well written for the new person wanting to get into digital video editing. This is a must along with the user manual from Adobe. Has great tips for short cuts. Will work with both Windows and Mac users. Numbered steps take you from one phase to the next without missing a beat. Adobe tells you what the buttons are for and what they do. Doug shows you how to use them to make a movie. I would recommend Adobe buy up a bunch of them and include them in their kit. I highly recommend it. Hey, did I say I liked the book?
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Summary: How to Use Adobe Premiere 6
Review: Excellent, easy to follow with the great pictures, particularly for the beginner
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Summary: Getting started with Digitial Video and Premier 6.0
Review: I am new to the world of videography and have purchased the hardware and software to begin producing my own digital video. I consulted with several knowledgeable people and selected Adobe Premier as my video editing suite. One of my friends suggested that "How to Use Adobe Premier" by Douglas Dixon would help me get started and be a good reference for the more advanced capabilities of this software. This book has saved me a huge amount of time and frustration by starting at a very low level on how to use the software. This gives you confidence to tackle more complex tasks. The book then can be used as a reference to show you how to accomplish those tasks. I appreciated the consistent style, good illustrations, and especially the hints. It is a well written guide and reference for beginning and intermediate digital videographers.
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Summary: Getting started with Digitial Video and Premier 6.0
Review: I am new to the world of videography and have purchased the hardware and software to begin producing my own digital video. I consulted with several knowledgeable people and selected Adobe Premier as my video editing suite. One of my friends suggested that "How to Use Adobe Premier" by Douglas Dixon would help me get started and be a good reference for the more advanced capabilities of this software. This book has saved me a huge amount of time and frustration by starting at a very low level on how to use the software. This gives you confidence to tackle more complex tasks. The book then can be used as a reference to show you how to accomplish those tasks. I appreciated the consistent style, good illustrations, and especially the hints. It is a well written guide and reference for beginning and intermediate digital videographers.
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Summary: Don't Bother
Review: I found the picture by picture style of this book not only anoying, but void of in-depth information. Premiere is phenomenally complicated. This book's "Simple Simon" approach shows how to do the basics step by step without explaining the fundamentals and technical information necessary to master video editing basics. My advice to someone who actually wants to LEARN Premiere? Don't try to take a short cut. If you need a picture book with step by step instructions to work through a software program, Adobe Priemiere is probably not the best video editing tool for you to learn. This book fails to explain the importance of the "Render" command thus confusing the begginer who can't understand why none of the technical tricks of the book are not working. In a nutshell, buy another book.
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Summary: Basic and well organized, yet slightly E-Z Cheesy
Review: I have this book and feel like it is good for a beginner , easy to read and full of color diagrams to get you up and running. What it doesn't have though is meaningful discussions on various intermediate level techniques etc. It should suffice as a reference manual for someone who doesn't want to poke around in Premiere's own online help menu's or is missing the normal manuals and documentation. What is lacking in this book for me, was the sort of info I felt I needed a book for. There was no serious sidebars for tricky manuevers or off beaten path settings tips to really help me "dig in" to Premiere. I recommend some of bigger books w/ CD-Roms as the weightier titles for in depth settings advice etc.
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Summary: Great Premiere Book
Review: I spent several frustrating days trying to use the Premiere 6 help screens to learn about the program. My wife brought this book home from the library. What a great book. It takes you from the begining and builds up your mental tool set step by step, with small activities which are two pages at a time. These small activities are well documented with pictures of the sreens step by step. It also provides helpful hints about Premiere as you go along. Each activity teaches you something you will need to finaly export a video. I highly recommend this book. Its really a model which other software texts should follow. The quality of the printing is excellent.
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