Creating Web Video with Adobe(R) Premiere(R) (On The Web)

Director and producer Thomas Luehrsen has been telling stories in film and video for over 15 years, including 10 years telling stories at teeny size—on CD-ROM and the Web. In Creating Web Video with Adobe Premiere, Luehrsen guides you through the entire process of creating video for the Web, from buying the right camera and microphone to deciphering the inner secrets of Web video compression. Along the way, he explains how to use the latest digital video equipment for seamless video capture, how to edit and compress movies with Adobe Premiere, and how to use Adobe GoLive to place them on Web pages and streaming servers. Read interviews with masters of Web video and take a guided tour of some of the best—and quirkiest—Web video being made today. The companion CD-ROM contains demo versions of Adobe Premiere and Adobe GoLive, as well as sample video and audio files for you to use in the tutorials throughout the book.

Although the title seems to target mainly users of Adobe Premiere, as a Final Cut Pro user I found it full of practical advice and step by step instruction that I easily converted for my own used with Final Cut Pro.

If you are a novice in the field of web video, and need straight-forward instruction and explaination -- if you are interested in understanding how to approach and implement your video projects and deliver them to an audience of online viewers, this is a necessary manual to have on hand. It will provide you the tools to get the job done, and inspire you in directions that you may have thought beyond the scope of your personal learning curve.

Kudos to Thomas Luehrsen and Creating Web Video!. I'll be looking for and hopefully finding other titles by this author in the future.


Very hard to follow   April 7, 2003
 1 out of 2 found this review helpful

If you know nothing about Adobe Premiere then this is not the book for you. The lessons are hard to follow and sometimes very confusing if you are not already familiar with Premiere. It's practically impossible to go through the tutorial from start to finish without getting totally lost. The book does have some useful information regarding compression and embedding so I gave it 2 stars instead of none. I know a lot of people liked this book and that is why I bought it, but I just don't think it is for a beginner. I started out not knowing anything about Premiere and video editing and I still know nothing.


Excellent!   December 3, 2002
Well organized and very clearly written. Mr. Luehren covers all the bases and strikes a great balance between necessary detail and unnecessary geek-speak. The book is engaging without being overly cute, like so many how to books can be. I would highly recommend this book for beginners and experienced users alike.


This is excellent, an easy to understand and follow handbook   October 25, 2002
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I have taken classes from Mr Luehrsen so I was confident that his
book would be just as great as his "in person" teaching. I wasn't disappointed. It's well organized, the information is detailed, easy to understand and implement. I'm happy to have made the purchase.


Wow! I feel like Steven Spielberg...   October 15, 2002
Wow! I feel like Steven Spielberg...
This book encompasses everything you would ever need to know to make the best web based home movies on the family web-site, or even learn to produce professional level independent web based film. Its several books in one! Its an "Adobe Premiere for Dummies" and it also covers advanced technical and cinemagraphic techniques specifically for web presentations. You will see a tremendous improvement in your video work if you study under Luehrsen with this tool. You will actually start using all those extra buttons on your camera, really!!