Digital Video for Dummies

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Summary: Misses the remainder of the edit world
Review: While this book was certainly needed, it misses the fact that there are several capture devices, editing programs, and the like. Sticking with Adobe's Premiere, which has gradually become an inferior product at a very high price, makes this book really more for wealthy dummies, rather than the masses. Ignoring the importance of broadband webstreaming, missing most of the audio component, and approaching this subject with so much emphasis on Adobe means that this book really should be called Adobe media products for rich dummies. He completely ignores the Mac world, I edit on both Mac and PC. The fact that he also ignores shooting techniques for the majority of applications, and several other basics tells me that the book was thrown together predominantly on the basis of rewriting Adobe's manuals for them. How many people can afford 2500.00 just for the Adobe products that he continually points to, when there are dozens of other, equally or more popular formats at a substantial savings? Just visit any DV chatroom and you'll see what I mean. The book definitely imparts some great information. However, it's great information that the average dummy can't use, or has to really think hard to figure out how the information applies to his world.