Adobe Premiere Elements for Dummies

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A few years ago, video editing was only practical for people with a lot of fancy editing equipment and piles of cash.

About this book

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 videoPicking the clips you want to keep and getting them into your computerHow 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 trickeryPutting your finished project on a DVD, videotape, or the InternetCovering 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.

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