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Title: Neither guide nor reference
Review: This book is thoroughly disorganized from page one on. The author doesn't seem to realize that Premiere has a vocabulary all its own, and he doesn't explain essential terms. He rarely even gives the names of various screen components. There appears to be no pattern to the presentation. Even at the start, single topics may have half a dozen or more references to other parts of the book. One uses so many fingers for bookmarks that it's awkward to operate the keyboard. Granted that editing on video is a complex business, there are still gradual, systematic methods of working into it. Such how-to instructions are missing here. The author appears to have been eager to get the first book about Premiere 5.1 onto the market (even the Adobe manual is for 5.0), and to hell with quality and good sense.
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