
By following along with the cross-platform CD and the book's lessons, you get hands-on experience in mastering this powerful but flexible editing system. Kathleen Caster From the Back Cover:Īdobe Premiere 5.0 Classroom in a Book teaches you to master Adobe Premiere 5.0 in short, focused lessons that explore all of Adobe Premiere's tools and techniques for editing. Later lessons teach you how to create titles, superimpose clips, add motion, apply audio and video filters, and create subclips and virtual clips. You go on to use audio clips, learn about three-point and four-point editing, work with clip linking, and use the Extract, Lift, Paste Custom, Slip, and Trim functions.

Next, you learn basic editing techniques such as importing clips, working with the Timeline and the Source view, previewing and fine-tuning your work, and applying transitions. You also explore concepts central to digital video editing, such as frame size, resolution, video data compression, video capture, transparency, superimposing, audio, and output. You start a project, add clips and audio, and edit and export the video. Each chapter also includes review questions and answers as well as an "exploring on your own" section.įirst you get a tour of the Premiere interface.

It guides you through everything from basic interfaces to the process of assembling complex movies, and features step-by-step instruction and project files on an included CD-ROM. If you've set out to master Premiere 5 and don't know where to begin, get this thorough, well-illustrated book.
