There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Verified Purchase. I just spent an intensive two weeks with this book, and the entire time I was wishing I had tackled this topic earlier I went from being a person who couldn't figure out how to cut a long video into shorter pieces my original goal , to being a person who can create a scene with one video floating across another in a spinning rectangle, complete with "lens flare," and lines of text both "scrolling" and "crawling" across the screen in the background, all narrated by my female voice converted into a low male voice It's a steep learning curve, though.
Video editing is one of those topics where you have to know a bit of everything before you can do anything So you have to plow through every chapter and really do the exercises. I could only manage one chapter a day. The most rewarding chapter was the one on multi-camera editing Another high-payoff topic was learning how to choose a "look" for your entire movie The most difficult concept was key frames and animation, but once you get it, you realize you can "animate" anything -- opacity, color corrections, lighting effects, flying monkeys, volume controls, anything.
The "Audio" chapter was annoying because the audio would have these "flaws" that were so subtle I couldn't hear them on my laptop speakers, so I couldn't really tell that they were "fixed. I wanted more. The "Color Correction" chapter was disjointed because it went back and forth between the new "Lumetri" features and the "obsolete" features, but I was glad they did because in many cases, the "obsolete" tools are simpler and do exactly one thing well.
All in all, I would say this book taught me more useful stuff in a shorter amount of time than any other "technology" book I have read. You need a powerful computer with an Adobe-compatible graphics processor, no way around it. Well, there might be ways around it, but they aren't fun. Images in this review. I love the classroom in a book series of books. I've used almost all of them. This one is a bit jumbled and confusing compared to the current books for other CC applications. It won't be a problem if you are already familiar with Adobe software but I could not recommend this book to someone just starting out with Adobe.
Also, the media disk that came with the book did not work on several computers so I downloaded the lesson assets from the publishers website. Some of these assets did not match the lessons in the book.
Its easy to still learn what the lessons teach from context and playing around with mismatched assets but it seems sloppy compared to the usually perfect Classroom In a Book series. I learned a lot fron this product but I was disappointed with the lack of attention to detail. It's a good book but not geared up for a beginner; in Lesson 5 Automating a Sequence on page it took me two hours Googling Adobe support and the Internet to figure out how to get my Automate to sequence button to appear at the bottom of my Project panel.
Wish I had read the other reviews - Like others, once I got into doing the lessons, I kept trying to figure out what I missed.
Other books have identified the steps to follow clearly with separate color, italicized I thought the red bullets identified steps to follow, until I got to chapter 2. The steps had me opening programs I don't own in order to export projects from them into a format for Premiere Pro. I thought maybe sample exported files would be available to import, but could find no such assets.
After spending many hours trying to figure out what I was expected to do Steps for the lesson, and what was Informational - I am looking for a different book. Very disappointed for the amount of money I spent. I bought this book two weeks ago in hopes of learning Premiere Pro. As stated by others that have bought the same book with the same goal in mind, I found that this book is somewhat difficult to navigate though. Per lesson depending on the lesson there are anywhere from four to ten steps per lesson.
Granted, each lesson provides you with an explanation of the tools used for that particular lesson but not enough step by step instructions to completely understand and navigate thought the lesson to complete it.
In addition to the lack of step by step instructions this book lacks much needed graphics to help guide you though the lessons. As someone with a degree in graphic design and six years of work related experience and a good understand of Adobe software I still found this book be poorly written. This book arrived with no problems and no damage.
Things we all expect but do not always happen. Love the book, it has been very helpful for understanding how to do more technical editing techniques along with basic techniques. This is the book that should have come with the software. It is a good book, but it should have come free with the software.
One person found this helpful. This book is well written and very informative. I will admit is takes me longer to get through then they said but I found there website and I am well on my way to being a video editor. In fact just did my first video for a person for their work. See all reviews. Top reviews from other countries. I just using this book, even though there are tons of videos out there, I really recommend this book as it will enforce your learning. Areas of the workflow that are covered in this book are in a much greater detail.
Try all the exercises to concrete your understanding. Expensive book but DVD included. The text is fine but print quality of illustrations is dreadful. Eye watering list price. However, the retailer service was excellent. If you want to learn how to video edit this it the book you need. Though it is beginner to intermediate it provides enough information to create a decent video. I do recommend learning how to video edit as I now picked up on it as a hobby and purchased a drone hoping to create fantastic videos in the future.
Everyone has to start somewhere and these is where I started. Report abuse. This is a very informative book which takes you through all of the fundamentals of Premiere Pro. My only complaint is that the images and icons are way too small, and they are dark grey on black which is VERY difficult to see.
Instead of showing where the icon is located on the screen the authors show you the icon, which is illegible. The tutorial files are fantastic though, so I highly recommend this book for all levels.
I have not yet read through the entire book but it had helped me a lot! Customers who read this book also read. Learn how to take a project from beginning to end, organize media, add audio, create transitions, produce titles and captions, and add effects. Take your projects further by sweetening and mixing sound, compositing footage, adjusting color, using advanced editing techniques, managing projects, working with video for VR headsets, animating graphics and video, exporting, and much more.
The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each chapter as well as ebook updates when Adobe releases relevant new features for Creative Cloud customers. All buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: a Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and multiple-choice quizzes.
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