Adobe Premiere Elements For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers))

Adobe Premiere Elements offers amateur and home moviemakers the opportunity to work with editing tools as powerful as those packed into Adobe Premiere Pro, one of the top tools on the market. Adobe Premiere Elements For Dummies offers these same users not only a guide through all the how-to steps of using the software, but also a valuable reference on how to best apply the tools to a great video project. Author Keith Underdahl, also author of Adobe Premiere Pro For Dummies, is an experienced video editor who understands what new Premiere users need to know and how to best explain the topics. In this book, Keith describes: Best practices for shooting quality video Picking the clips you want to keep and getting them into your computer How to use Premiere Elements’ editing tools to add an opening credits page, transitions between clips, sound, music, and ending credits. Adding special effects using only computer trickery Putting your finished project on a DVD, videotape, or the Internet Covering more ground than the typical expanded users manuals you find in bookstores, Adobe Premiere Elements For Dummies is the book you need to get you through your first video-editing project as well as to return to whenever you hit rough spots and need instant help. What the book covers: "Adobe Premiere Elements For Dummies covers the new consumer-focused video editing software based on Adobe's industry-standard Premiere Pro. Our book helps editing novices get a grip on importing video, creating clips, putting clips together, adding effects, working with sound and music, and outputting for the Internet or to DVD. Coverage of new product: This book will be among the first books out covering Premiere Elements. Past success with the Dummies series and Adobe's "Elements" products indicate this book could outsell the Premiere Pro title A few years ago, video editing was only practical for people with a lot of fancy editing equipment and piles of cash. Presents information on digital filmmaking using Adobe's Premiere computer program to create and edit digital videos.