Chapter Summary

Making a Movie with Windows XP: Visual QuickProject Guide

Why Buy This Book?

This book details how to create a birthday party video with Adobe's Premiere Elements.

• Learn by doing - The easiest way to learn to use a new video editor is to build a project with it. Starting with the video you've shot of the birthday party (and digital still pictures as well), you'll learn how to capture, trim, add transitions, titles, effects and background music and then render your video for desktop viewing or for inserting into a DVD authoring program like MyDVD.

• Short and sweet - At 134 pages, this book is entirely focused on the task at hand. It doesn't show every option (that's what the Visual QuickStart Guide is for), just the best one for your birthday party video. Get the job done quickly, and learn the program to boot.

• Big, four color pictures - The emphasis here is on VISUAL, with big, four color images showing you the way. You won't have to read a lot of text; just follow the images.

Reviews:

So you fancy yourself a filmmaker? Here to ensure that you truly are is a simple, to-the-point guide that leads you through the process of creating your very first digital video project with Adobe's brand-new consumer-level video editing software, Premiere Elements ($99). In these pages veteran author and PC Magazine contributing editor Jan Ozer gets right to the point: Rather than explore every option and feature of Premiere Elements, Jan uses project-based instruction and big, colorful screen shots to demonstrates the quickest, easiest, and smartest route to cinematic success. Each short lesson builds on the last as you learn how to capture and import video; add transitions, titles and effects; take advantage of the program's stunning templates; use the program with Photoshop Elements to edit and incorporate still images; and output your finished video to DVD. The book's small size and even smaller price ($12.99) make it the perfect entry point into the world of digital filmmaking as well as the ideal jumping-off point for further exploration.

Chapter Summary:

introduction

1. welcome to premiere elements

2. collecting project content

3. assembling your clips

4. inserting transitions

5. applying special effects

6. creating titles

7. using audio

8. creating DVDs

9. that's a wrap