You’ve got a DVD-R or DVD-RW drive in your new computer. You’ve bought a digital video camera. You’ve taken your first pictures. You’re ready to “go into production.”
All you need is the software. And you’re concerned over the complexity of “high end” programs such as Adobe’s Premiere 6.5.
Que to the rescue! The publisher of some of the weightiest [and most expensive] software manuals has published a step and step [and relatively inexpensive] handbook for the DVD “newbie.”
Better yet, How to Use Adobe Premiere 6.5 does the job! You get large [8 x 10-inch] pages, step-by-step instructions, and full color illustrations of every step in every process.

Dixon begins with an overview and then takes his readers through a logical production sequence:

• Importing and organizing clips.
• Assembling them using storyboard and timeline.
• Adding transitions.
• Exporting to video/audio, web and DVD formats.
• Editing
• Adding titles
• Mixing audio and video effects
• Animating clips.

Most important to prospective users of Adobe Premiere, every step – click by click – is illustrated.
You owe it to yourself to check out the book. If nothing else, it’s an almost bullet-proof guarantee against making a mistake in a critical decision: the software you’ve got to have to use that DVD drive.
A guarantee? That’s right, because Adobe will let you download a trial copy of the software from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html. Load the software, sit down at the computer with book in hand, and check it out for yourself.
You’ll find the task as easy as it appears – even easier if you’re familiar with the software interface, which in large part is applied to most Adobe products.
How to Use Adobe Premiere 6.5 by Douglas Dixon. 2002. Que Publishing. 288 pages. $30.