Do you like to learn by doing? Do manuals leave you bored and craving real-world examples? Do you want concrete training that goes beyond theory and reference materials? If so, this is the book for you. These hands-on exercises, complete with insider tips and detailed screen shots, teach essential techniques of capturing, editing, and exporting movies with Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5. You'll learn to add transitions, special effects, graphics, titles, and music to your Premiere Pro projects. Once you've learned the basics, you'll take your projects to the next level by building picture-in-picture effects, creating animated titles, recording voice-overs, adding motion effects, and publishing the results to a variety of formats, such as a DVD-Video disc, camera/VCR, and a streaming movie for playback on a Web site. Accompanied by a DVD loaded with classroom-proven exercises and tutorial movies, this book ensures you'll master the key features of Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 in no time. Jeff Schell is a video editor, comedy writer, author, Web designer, technical trainer, actor, and amateur physics geek. As an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) and Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI), Jeff travels across the country teaching video production classes in Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator. Jeff strives to infuse real-world situations and humor in every lesson.