This book offers practical advice from an author with a strong writing background, solid teaching experience, and extensive television production credentials. The book includes not only instruction on the basics of using Premiere, but also tips on shooting high quality video, creating professional voice-overs, and effective editing methods. Adobe Premiere brings high-end video editing to the PC (90% of Premiere users have Windows). Anyone with a Windows PC who wants to venture into anything more than very simple video editing will eventually turn to Premiere. The planned new version of Premiere (slated for release in late summer 2002) will garner significant attention in part because it will add DVD authoring to its extensive feature set. The opportunity to create DVDs—from home movies to Hollywood productions—on PCs is a dramatic development, and Premiere X will be at the forefront of this emerging technology. The author has been working closely with Adobe, advising them on DVD software issues

Jeff Sengstack is an ACE, an Adobe Certified Expert on Premiere. He has worn many hats: TV news reporter/anchor, video producer, writer focusing on PC technology, high school math/science teacher, and music publisher marketing director. As a TV news reporter he won a regional Emmy and two Society of Professional Journalists 1st place awards. He's written more than 300 magazine and newspaper articles as well as three books, co-authored two others and contributed to three more.

*The DVD is not included with the digital version of this book.