Adobe Premiere Elements for Dummies

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Summary: Message from editor of Adobe Premiere Elements For Dummies
Review: Hi -- I'm one of the editors who worked on Adobe Premiere Elements For Dummies and just wanted to post a few words about the book.

As you probably know, Premiere Elements is a pretty cool tool for editing digital video. We designed our book to help you get a firm grip on all the features in Premiere Elements and make using the software a simple task.

Doing a more user-friendly manual on the software could have been enough for this book, but we wanted to offer more than what other books do. So we've added a lot of information on digital video basics like shooting good footage and getting the most out of your camera. We also added content on the best ways to share your videos after you've edited them. Finally, we tried to go beyond the "how-to" with the software and show how to use the tools in the most effective manner for the best results.

Our author, Keith Underdahl, was definitely the right man for the job. He's also author of our current edition of Digital Video For Dummies (a more basic book for folks just getting started with digital videography). Keith has done pro videos, but he also enjoys using his camera for family events and vacations. In short, he knows where all the natural stumbling blocks come with digital video and knows how to get around them.

Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoy our book.

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Summary: Good indepth book with lots of useful feature info
Review: Keith's knowledge of Premiere really pays off in his "Adobe Premiere Elements" for Dummies book.

The book does a good job of going more indepth than the user manual that comes with the product. Capture, Edit, Effects, Titles, DVD and other export types like web, are all covered.

I really enjoyed the numerous examples & gotchas that folks just learning how to edit video would run into. The book has a good balance of tips on video editing, as well as going indepth on how to do specific special effects. Chapter 19 goes thru 10 specific examples: Making people disappear on video, seeing double (twins), freeze frames, old movie, star wars titles, Ken Burn pan & zooms, moving image mattes, lens flares, audio hums and zooming in on video.