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Summary: Fast, Efficient, No-Fluff Premiere Manual
Review: A comprehensive and well organized manual for Adobe Premiere 6. Includes a great Index and detailed Table of Contents, making it easy to find answers to almost any questions very quickly. Text is generally to the point and clear, with many illustrations. In addition to thoroughly covering Premiere, there are general sections related to video, such as Frame Rate, Time Code, Interlacing, Aspect Ratios, etc..It should be noted that this book is NOT a step-by-step tutorial to teach you Premiere. It works as a reference manual, and does that job admirably. Although one could probably learn Premiere with this book, for beginners I would recommend Adobe's Classroom in a Book series and/or the tutorials that ship with Premiere. Overall, an outstanding book and an excellent value. ...END
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Summary: Unavailing and seemingly deliberately complex
Review: As another reviewer said, the structure is not logical, e.g., capturing video is at the end of the book, when it needs to be at the beginning. The author steadfastly recommends using the single-track, rather than the far more intuitive and simple-to-use A/B roll method of editing, forgetting that anyone buying a beginner's book on Premiere is just that...a beginner! Why not make it as easy as possible? His approach offers no real advantage. Further, the "visual" aspect is not sufficiently helpful, and the short descriptions create 2 new questions in the reader's head for every 1 new concept covered. Do not buy this book.
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Summary: Premiere 6 for Macintosh & Windows
Review: Having a considerable amount of experience with other non-linear editing programs but no real experience with Premiere, I picked up this book to try out the program. Within an hour I had my DV cam hooked up and controlled by the computer; within four hours, I had completed my project and dumped it all back to DV tape, a half-hour long program edited to the minute. Without this book I would've been stuck. The only improvements I would suggest would be more in-depth demonstrations, but for first-timers, it's a must-have.
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Summary: Gets in-depth "enough", yet easy enough for beginners
Review: I bought this book mainly because of the price, yet I was not disappointed by the content. I'm interested on getting a handle on the basics (just bought a new DV cam). This book covers that very well. Things are laid out clearly and concisely with lots of pictures. However, it goes beyond being solely for complete beginners and includes slightly more advanced topics.
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Summary: No Book can be Perfect - but this one comes close
Review: I read all the reviews here on Amazon-- and I know that they were very extreme- I teach webdesign programs... Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver etc. I find that Visual QuickStart books (and this one is no exception) are the best in the market... try reading Adobe Premierer's class room in a book- and then get back to me- Talk about filler words and useless reading! Maybe someone will write a Premiere 1-2-3 book... till then, this is the best book you can get! Xandro
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Summary: great
Review: I was recently comparing 3 Premiere 6 books in the store.
This book was much clearer and easier to understand than
the other two. Not only that, it was half the price of the
other two! When do you pay half the price for something
that is better than other products. The best part is I
am already putting videos together at home thanks to this
book. Buy it!
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Summary: Adequate not great
Review: Peachpit must define "quick" completely differently than the rest of us. "Up & running in no time"...I don't think so. This somewhat overwritten volume is strictly for reference. P6 is an extremely complicated program, especially for newbies, and the Bolante book will be a bit of a disappointment (given its title and accompanying hyperbole), to those who expect some sort of how-to-do-it.
However, because of P6's myriad of features and capabilities, and given the Adobe User Guide has carefully avoided graphical displays as much as possible, (a little ironic?), Bolante's tome is currently serving as a concise reminder of picune chores that P6 demands. Why can't these software geniuses get it right for a change?
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