Adobe Premiere 6.5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide teaches Premiere with exceptional clarity, using the proven Visual QuickStart format: step-by-step explanations, practical tips, and hundreds of screen captures that demonstrate exactly what students will see and what they should do. The book has been thoroughly updated to reflect Premiere 6.5's key enhancements, and offers start-to-finish coverage of the entire Premiere project lifecycle, including digital video capture, editing, and output. Long-time digital video producer and instructor Anthony Bolante begins by introducing Premiere's updated user interface, showing how to begin a project, and demonstrating how to work with clips, create programs, and edit using Premiere's Timeline. Once students master the basics, Bolante walks through refining programs, adding transitions, effects, audio, and titles; working with filters; superimposing clips; creating output for tape, QuickTime, and other formats; and much more.

• NEW - Completely updated to reflect Premiere 6.5's most significant new features.

  • Helps students master state-of-the-art tasks and tools that will be valuable to them for many years to come.

• Proven QuickStart visual learning format—Combines an open, welcoming design, hundreds of screen captures, expert tips, and concise step-by-step instructions.

  • Relies on a format designed to make learning as easy as possible.

• Complete coverage of the entire Premiere project lifecycle—Offers step-by-step instructions for video capture, editing, and output.

  • Helps students succeed no matter what role they are asked to play in producing digital video projects with Premiere 6.5.

• Expert tutorial and handy quick reference—Designed not only to teach Premiere 6.5 exceptionally well, but also to serve as an outstanding task-based reference.

  • Will remain valuable to students long after they've mastered the fundamentals of Premiere 6.5.

• Step-by-step guidance for mastering more advanced techniques—Demystifies mattes, keys, audio cross-fades, batch capture, keyframing, and much more.

  • Provides accessible, step-by-step procedures that help students master techniques which have traditionally been viewed as difficult.

• Completely updated to reflect Premiere 6.5's most significant new features.

  • Helps students master state-of-the-art tasks and tools that will be valuable to them for many years to come.

Introduction: Premiere: The Big Picture.


 1. Premiere Basics.


 2. Starting a Project.


 3. Importing and Managing Clips.


 4. Editing Source Clips.


 5. Creating a Program.


 6. Editing in the Timeline.


 7. Refining the Program.


 8. Transitions.


 9. Previewing Transitions and Effects.


10. Mixing Audio.


11. Adding Effects.


12. Creating Titles.


13. Superimposing Clips.


14. Motion Setting.


15. Creating Output.


16. Capturing Video.


17. Premiere Online.


18. Video and Audio Settings.


Index.

Antony Bolante freelances in video post production in the San Francisco Bay Area and has taught video editing to graduate and undergraduate students using Avid Media 100, and of course, Premiere. He is also the author of Premiere 6 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide and After Effects 5 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickPro Guide.

Whether you're new to Adobe Premiere or you're a loyal old-timer who just upgraded, you'll want to get up-to-speed on all of the program's powerful new features fast. Premiere 6.5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide is now revised to show you how to capture, edit, and output digital video using Premiere's new tools and interface enhancements. If you're an experienced Premiere user, you can simply hit the index and skip right to the new features that you want to learn about. All of you new users, however, will probably want to start from the beginning of this task-based reference and follow along with the straightforward step-by-step how-tos that will have you editing full-length videos complete with titles, transitions, and special effects in record time.

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