This is the distilled, expert guide to Premiere 6.0 and everything the graphics professional needs to know for creating enhanced digital videos with Premiere 6.0. Chominsky provides useful tips, checklists and case studies.

Adobe's already intense competition with Apple's Final Cut Pro and Avid's Xpress DV 3.5 heats up with the latest release of Adobe Premiere 6.5--an impressive upgrade with a slew of new features that you'll want to master fast. Adobe's best-selling Adobe Premiere 6.5 Classroom in a Book uses the popular project-based lessons for which this series is known to cover basic editing principles, working with subclips and virtual clips, creating transitions, working with audio, and titling. The CD-ROM contains all of the files you need to get started right away, and the Adobe brand ensures unparalleled course quality. After all, who better to teach Premiere than the folks who created it?

* This groundbreaking book gets would-be filmmakers and editors quickly and easily up to speed on the latest release of Adobe Premiere * Teaches the full range of Adobe Premiere tools and techniques through the re-creation of a complete video project * Readers learn by doing as they work through the project, editing clips, adding transitions, working with sound, creating special effects, and more * By the end of the book, readers have created a dynamic, professionalquality video-and have gained a professional-level competency with Adobe Premiere * CD-ROM contains all of the files and materials needed to complete the project in the book

"Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Premiere 6.5 in 24 Hours" offers practical advice from an author with a strong writing background, solid teaching experience, and extensive television production credentials. Rather than simply presenting a collection of disconnected lessons, "Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Premiere 6.5 in 24 Hours" always reminds its readers of the big picture and what they're trying to accomplish. The book includes not only instruction on the basics of using Premiere 6.5, but also tips on shooting high quality video, creating professional voice-overs, and effective methods. Adobe Premiere 6.5 brings high-end video editing to the PC (90% of Premiere users use Windows). Anyone with a Windows PC who wants to venture into anything more than very simple video editing will eventually turn to Premiere 6.5. The planned new version of Premiere, version 6.5 (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 6.5 will be at the forefront of the emerging technology. The author has been working closely with Adobe, advising them on DVD software issues.

This text offers complete coverage of basic to advanced Premiere skills, such as animating clips and using advanced video effect techniques, to create polished, professional-looking videos.

* 100 percent of what people need to master the latest version of the world's most popular digital video editing application * Covers the brand-new release of Adobe Premiere, including all of the latest features * Offers tutorials, tips, and tricks for editing video in Premiere as well as how to create special effects in Premiere, After Effects, Electrifier and other applications * Demonstrates how to integrate narration, music, and sound effects with moving images like a pro * CD-ROM contains video-based tutorials, a library of usable video clips and sample effects, useful video filters and utilities, and Premiere tryouts for both Mac and Windows.

This is a comprehensive guide to research on the American composer Elliott Carter (b. 1908), widely acknowledged as one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. It contains a chronology, complete list of works, detailed discography, and fully annotated bibliography of over 1,000 books, articles, interviews, video recordings, and Carter's own writings. This essential reference book covers the most significant works in English, French, German, and Italian, from the 1940s-when Carter's music first began to attract attention-to the 1990s.