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Summary: Very nice for novice user and reference, not advanced
Review: Adobe premiere is an awesome product that is extremely diverse. The Classroom in a book will help you find your way through most of the main features and get familiar with them. I found it extremely helpful and was very happy with all the examples that are worked out nicely. For reference you will have a great guide in this book too. If you want to get into the nitty gritty and potentially advanced features you will not find all your answers and need to do your research elsewhere. Still the book is well worth its money and will get you off to a flying start!
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Summary: Very well done
Review: Hmmm, I wonder who else from Nashville bought this book, and if they go to Watkins. Anyway...
I was very impressed by this book. The examples are clear and helpful, and basic questions are well answered. No, it's not exceptionally easy. It is not a "dummies" book, and I liked it all the better for it. Don't we all get to the point where we just get tired of that approach? If a book is challenging, I feel that I've learned something, and I don't think that Premiere is an easy program in the first place. A caveat: you will get much more out of this book if you understand why they set up the shots in their movie examples the way they do, and if you are studying how and why films work in their audio and visuals. Also, I haven't gotten to that infamous chapter 12 yet!
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Summary: A Disappointment From Adobe
Review: I assumed that since this book was written by Adobe, it would be terrific. Boy was I wrong. The exercises in this book are so convoluted. They make concepts that I later found out were quite simple seem unnecessarily complex. I walked away from this book not knowing much more than I did before I read it. Whoever designed these excercises definitely doesn't use the program professionally. It's too canned. In addition, this book was very expensive. Anyone want my copy?The Visual Quickstart Guide for Premiere is 100 times more usefull than this book and half the cost.
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Summary: Same as version 5
Review: I bought version 5 of Premiere CIB a couple years ago. I upgraded to Premeiere 6 in January, and I've been waiting months for version 6 of CIB to come out. Well, if you've got CIB 5, save yourself some money--everything is the same in the new version. Why they had to delay publication to come up with this is a mystery. Virtually all the lessons and source footage are exactly the same--except where some changes in the program menus require some different keystrokes. If you haven't used the earlier version, this book would be worth 4, maybe even 5 stars. If you have version 5, this 'upgrade' rates a 1. I'll even it out for both types of users and give it a 3.
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Summary: Bad!!! Bad!!! Too Confusing!! Don't Buy!!!!
Review: I first decided to learn Adobe After Effects 7.0. I used that classroom in a book and it was fabulous. Within 2 days I was done with the book and had learned a lot. The After Effects 7.0 book was consistent: When it told you to do something, what they expected that you would get, you DID get. If there would be something fishy, the book would say " Your going to see Blah, Blah, Blah, but don't worry, we will take care of that later." And they did! With this Premier 6.0 book, I have been working on the preview lesson (Tour) for an entire day and am always asking "What???" The book tells me to do something...I do it...later on when I playback my video things are clearly wrong. I finally just started blindly trusting what it said to do, thinking that the issues I was seeing would be cleared up later, just that they are not letting me know. Wrong! This book just isn't clear and consistent. I'm going to try to keep going...maybe the rest of the lessons will be better, but I am extremely disappointed.
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Summary: This book needs to be re-written
Review: I found the book so confusing I didn't know what I was doing for the longest time. I'm an advanced computer user, but new to the world of Premiere. This book kept me guessing the whole time, which is good if you like thriller novels, but not if you're trying to learn an editing program like Premiere. The book goes through step-by-step instructions on how to edit simple films, but each step seems to include instructions and never an explanation on why you are doing what you are doing. They just kind of leave that part out. Eventually I understood what the book was trying to tell me, but only after I had already completed several chapters. I had to go back in the book and re-read each chapter so I understood what the chapter was saying and why. I would never recommend this book to anyone. It's too bad the program is so good and this book is so terrible. Really, the program was based on the Industry standard AVID, which is excellent, but doesn't really need to be confusin. Too bad this book makes it confusing.
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Summary: Teacher who used to use this book
Review: I have yet to find a student who likes using this book. For most students the book is confusing and very difficult to follow. Also the book has many errors and does not go into depth into any topic. This is one of the worst books on the market for premiere. I highly suggest any other book.
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Summary: Teacher who used to use this book
Review: I have yet to find a student who likes using this book. For most students the book is confusing and very difficult to follow. Also the book has many errors and does not go into depth into any topic. This is one of the worst books on the market for premiere. I highly suggest any other book.
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Summary: Wow, i thought it was great...
Review: I used a reallyreallyreally old version of Photoshop for the longest time. When I bit the bullet and bought 6.0, I bought this book. Personally, I liked it it a lot. I learned more about the program, and got through the entire book in a week. If you want to learn more about Photoshop, this book is for you.
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Summary: Does anyone proof this stuff?
Review: I've been using Adobe products for about ten years, but I'm new to Premiere. I usually enjoy Adobe's Classroom in a book series, but there are a couple chapters where the instructions don't work. This is my most common complaint with technical manuals. I've been through the labs in Chapter 12 (the last chapter) three times now, and I can't get it to work the way they say it will. Are they so busy they can't do the job right? I hate how much time I've wasted trying to make sense of their examples. There must be a better book somewhere.
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