Product Description

Turn your home movies into professional-looking, edited DVDs with the help of Easy Adobe Premiere Elements 2. Over one hundred visual tasks will show you how to create, edit and share digital videos using Adobe Premiere Elements. This full-color, visual, step-by-step guide will walk you through digital video basics and common video editing tasks. You'll also learn how to take advantage of exciting features such as creating pages for a video DVD, adding transition effects, creating a title page and correcting common audio and video glitches. Show off your movie-making talents with the help of Easy Adobe Premiere Elements 2.  

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #750178 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-29
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .39" h x 8.06" w x 10.02" l, 1.01 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover
Turn your home movies into professional-looking, edited DVDs with the help of Easy Adobe Premiere Elements 2. Over one hundred visual tasks will show you how to create, edit and share digital videos using Adobe Premiere Elements. This full-color, visual, step-by-step guide will walk you through digital video basics and common video editing tasks. You'll also learn how to take advantage of exciting features such as creating pages for a video DVD, adding transition effects, creating a title page and correcting common audio and video glitches. Show off your movie-making talents with the help of Easy Adobe Premiere Elements 2.  

About the Author
Carl Plumer is the Desktop Video Guide for About.com, a division of the New York Times. He writes regularly about desktop video editing in general and Adobe Premiere Elements in particular. His site is consistently ranked among the top sites for desktop video and is one of the few websites where you can view video clips on the subject of video editing. Carl's website can be found at http://desktopvideo.about.com.

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Easy Adobe® Premiere® Elements 2

Introduction

When you write a story, you make a number of creative decisions as you go: what and who to write about; which scene should come first and which scenes next; and what, ultimately, has to be cut. Each decision you make helps your story flow and makes it a more satisfying experience for the reader.

Making a movie is the visual equivalent of that process. Like writing, your goal when making a movie is to tell a story. But this time, instead of using the written word, you're using images and sounds. And because the best video editors share something in common with the best writers—they don't get in the way of the story—the video editor knows that less is more, and that understatement, subtlety, and simplicity are best.

The tools that Premiere Elements provides to help you assemble your story pieces (the video clips) into a finished story (your movie) are some of the best available for the home video editor. After you have mastered Premiere Elements, you will find its working environment fits your video-editing tasks as nicely as your word processor fits your writing tasks. You can do virtually anything you have the creative vision for. And this book will teach you how.

Easy Adobe Premiere Elements 2 shows you the Easy way to make a movie using Premiere Elements 2. You'll discover how to bring your video clips into Premiere Elements and how to add photographs, titles, and music to your production. You'll learn how to add a special effect and toss in a transition. And don't worry if words such as special effect and transition sound foreign—they won't be for long.

So, congratulations: You're on your way to becoming a great movie editor in your own right. Step one was purchasing Adobe Premiere Elements. Step two was picking up Easy Adobe Premiere Elements 2!

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