How to Use Adobe Premiere 6.5

How to Use Adobe Premiere 6.5 is the fastest and easiest way to get started with Premiere, whether you're new to video editing or stepping up to Premiere's professional features from another tool. With its color screenshots and straightforward descriptions, this book shows you all you need to know to effectively use Premiere to make your own video productions, including titles, transitions, and special effects. You also learn how to save your video productions in streaming video formats that facilitate sharing across the Internet or to burn to DVD.

Douglas Dixon is a technologist and author who works in the "Video Valley" of Princeton, NJ. As a technology leader at Sarnoff Corp., and previously as a software product manager at Intel, Doug has extensive experience developing multimedia and Web technology into consumer products. Doug is a contributing editor for Camcorder and Computer Video and Digital Photographer magazines, covering video editing and streaming media technology and tools, from DV to DVD, consumer to professional. He is active in professional activities and speaks at local, regional, and national meetings, from user groups to industry conferences.

Doug's other books include Desktop DVD Authoring (New Riders, Oct. 2002), and the previous edition of How to Use Adobe Premiere 6 (Sams, July 2001).

Although he writes about new and cutting-edge technology, Doug's focus is on making technology understandable and useful for real people. For more on these topics, see his Manifest Technology web site at manifest-tech.com.