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Revolutionary Premiere 6
by Christian Darkin, Joe Allen, Corne van Dooren, Alan McCann, Mark Schaeffer
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Wrox Press (2001-12)
ISBN: 1903450497
EAN: 9781903450499
UPC: 809971004976
Paperback: 500 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: MOZ128561
Condition: Fine
Comments: 1903450497 Book free of markings. Cover shows very light wear. This book shows little to no evidence of having been used; very pretty copy. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The Desktop Video Revolution is here! You won't have missed the fact that digital is taking over, but you'd be wrong if you thought that all that those 1s and 0s can do for you is make your pictures a little bit clearer and your soundtrack a bit crisper. Digital video gives you complete control over every frame of your production. You really can just drag and drop scenes, clips, still, music, anything you want, onto the versatile timeline where you compose your final video. And if you make a mistake, you just hit Undo. Digital video editing really can be that easy, and this book will take you from start to finish learning how to digitally edit using Adobe's premier league desktop video solution. DVision from friends of ED aim to provide all the information you need to create, realise, edit, enhance and deliver great-looking digital video.
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Customer Reviews
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This book is next to worthless
Rating  (1)
Date: 2003-07-02
I have no idea how this book managed a 4-star rating up to this point. They must have been looking at a different book or I am just crazy.Potentially this book would be a good one ( concepts are explained ok ) but the tutorials/examples are full of errors and many of the files it references in the tutorials don't exist ..... at least that I have been able to find. I don't even know if the download files are still available ..... not that they are worth the time it takes to download them ( downloads only go through chapter 7 anyway ). Additionally, I have tried to contact the publisher, author, and new publisher ( Apress apparently has purchased FriendsofED ) for help and received precisely nothing in return ..... not even a "we will look into it and get back with you" message. I was hoping the FriendsofED titles might be a good source of textbooks for the classes I teach but will probably never use one of their titles again because of this experience with them. It's to the point that I have considered reimbursing everyone of my students who have bought this book because it's so poor. Very frustrated and disappointed to say the least.
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A "Jumpstart" book
Rating  (4)
Date: 2003-04-19
The book approaches using Premiere from the vantage point of following a whole project from start to finish through its production process using the software. Along the way it explains a lot of basic concepts and also delves into a number of specific how-to-do-it details and even advanced techniques for cool effects. It will take you through your first few projects with most of the techniques you will need fairly quickly. For someone like me who used a much earlier version of Premiere and then wanted to "jump" into the latest interface quickly and understand what to do in specific areas, this book was very good. But if you want ALL of the information you can possibly get on Editing in Premiere or any other single aspect, this book is not detailed enough. Also, the page numbers in the table of contents and the index are out of sync with the actual numbers on the pages. Its as if the ToC started counting about twenty pages farther on than the printer numbered the pages, so somewhere in the editing/publishing they lost a bit of control of this book, but everything was still findable with a bit of patience.
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Answers my questions
Rating  (5)
Date: 2002-12-29
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book gave me the conceptual tools I needed to make sense of the Adobe Premier manual. The manual is chock full of the technical info that allows you to use all the features that Premiere offers, but Revolutionary Premiere 6 tells you which choice makes sense and why. In addition, it gives you the big picture on digital filmmaking techniques that can make the difference between making a film that looks amateurish and one that gets your message across. I knew within the first five minutes that this book would give me an understanding of the dynamics of filmmaking, while giving me specific advice on how to make Adobe Premiere do what I want it to do. Great job.
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Inspiring, but confusing
Rating (4)
Date: 2002-08-22
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is the first book I read on Premiere. This is the book that made me realize the potential of Premiere (as the book's title very aptly puts it). Also this is probably the only book on Premier that deals with film making as a whole (script writing, storyboarding, shooting, capturing, editing, etc.) rather than just editing. This is the book that got me interested in filmmaking. But to understand Premiere as a tool, I found "Adobe Premiere 6.0 Classroom in a book" clearer and more systematic. I give this book 4 stars for introducing me to the revolution that is Premiere 6.
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Reasonably Good Book, Not the Clearest
Rating  (3)
Date: 2002-05-01
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book does go well beyond the manual, but in one critical area fails. When reviewing editing techniques -- the most valuable, practical information in the book -- the writer skips certain steps that are critical to the approach he is explaining. I found myself reading the first and last thirds of the book, which are quite helpful, and abandoning the middle third on actual editing techniques. For those familiar with the Meyers' book on After Effects, this is nothing even close. If only we could get them to write one on Premiere!
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