50 fast Adobe Premiere 6.5 techniques - Pete Kennedy

Includes 32 pages of color examples that show you how to create stunning digital video effects!

Discover 50 exciting, easy ways to pack punch into your videos using the newest version of Premiere. Two leading professionals show you new masking techniques, creative ways to use color, the secrets of creating professional titles and rolling credits, how and why to use film–grain simulations, and much more. You’ll find the step–by–step instructions, lavish illustrations, and thorough explanations will help you use these tricks in your projects right away.

Your Step–by–Step Guide to Adobe Premiere 6.5 Tricks and Techniques

• Combine video clips, create snappy transitions, and apply professional fade–outs


• Use chroma keys to place subjects wherever you want them


• Manipulate shapes and lighting for powerful effects


• Speed up or slow down a clip and put static images in motion


• Distort an image, create moving composites, and animate interdependent clips


• Use Auto Pan, Bandpass, Flanger, and Reverb effects to customize sound


• Learn to make video look like film and create old–movie effects

CD–ROM includes tryout version of Adobe Premiere; tutorial files with video, audio, and still images; and Web links.