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Adobe Premiere Elements 9 Classroom in a Book contains 13 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe Premiere Elements and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
What you need to use this Adobe Premiere Elements 9 software, for either Windows or Mac OS. (Software not included.)
Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe Premiere Elements software.
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Of the books I looked over to find something to help me with the labyrinth that is this movie editing software, the Adobe team's version looked to be the one that matched my skill level.
I am familiar with Adobe products (and am considered an expert in Photoshop) but Premiere Elements is another skillset completely.
This book was one you could skip around in, but does start at the very beginning, a very good place to start when you *think* you know what you're doing, but actually, you can't even scrub through the footage without feeling lost.
I managed to get through several videos using this book, although each one took about a week, when using Windows Movie Maker Live, I could have been done in 30 minutes. But those extra features are everything when you want ultimate control.
I bought this book on the Kindle and I absolutely do NOT recommend this. In black and white, the screen shots are murky and unreadable. On the Kindle for PC, you get your color, but it is awkward to flip back and forth between the book and the program, especially since this book kept crashing Kindle for PC, and of course Premiere itself has a bad habit of crashing your machine.
I would have been much better off with the physical book, plus I didn't get the CD of lessons with a download. Probably you can get them somewhere, but I had a video to make, not a lesson set to track down.
If you've made the crazy, ill-advised decision to use Premiere Elements, then this is the book that will make you less likely to toss your PC out the window.