Adobe Premiere Elements For Dummies - Softcover

Underdahl, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764578812 ISBN 13: 9780764578816

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Synopsis

"Adobe Premiere Elements" offers amateur and home moviemakers the opportunity to work with editing tools as powerful as those packed into Adobe Premiere Pro, one of the top tools on the market. "Adobe Premiere Elements For Dummies" offers these same users not only a guide through all the how-to steps of using the software, but also a valuable reference on how to best apply the tools to a great video project. Author Keith Underdahl, also author of "Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies", is an experienced video editor who understands what new Premiere users need to know and how to best explain the topics.In this book, Keith describes: best practices for shooting quality video; picking the clips you want to keep and getting them into your computer; how to use Premiere Elements' editing tools to add an opening credits page, transitions between clips, sound, music, and ending credits; adding special effects using only computer trickery; and, putting your finished project on a DVD, videotape, or the Internet. Covering more ground than the typical expanded users manuals you find in bookstores, "Adobe Premiere Elements For Dummies" is the book you need to get you through your first video-editing project as well as to return to whenever you hit rough spots and need instant help.

About this title

About the Author

Keith Underdahl is a digital-media specialist residing in Albany, Oregon. Professionally, Keith is an electronic publishing specialist for AGES Software, where he serves as program manager, interface designer, multimedia producer, graphic artist, programmer, customer support manager, and resident Portable Document Format (PDF) guru. At the end of the day, he even sweeps up the place. Mr. Underdahl has written numerous books, including Teach Yourself Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Windows Movie Maker For Dummies, Macworld Final Cut Pro 2 Bible (co-author), Digital Video For Dummies, 3rd Edition, and Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies.

From the Back Cover

Once, only professionals with expensive tools could create digital videos. Now, with Adobe Premiere Elements and this book, you can create movies without a huge budget or a film school degree. This friendly guide shows you all the digital filmmaking steps from shooting video to getting it into your computer, editing your clips, adding music, and putting it all on a DVD to share with the world.

Discover How To:

• Shoot video like a pro director
• Get clips from your camera to your PC
• Edit out the bad stuff and keep the good
• Add in special effects, music, and credits
• Put your movie on DVD or the Web

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764578812
• ISBN 13: 9780764578816
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384