The Muvipix.com Guide to Adobe Premiere Elements 2018: The tools, and how to use them, to make movies on your personal computer

I understand the reviewer who complained that not enough time was spent on the basics, but if I'm going to buy a reference book, I want to learn the more detailed aspects of a program - the stuff you don't get from a 5 minute You Tube "How to " . This book does that. Every few pages I exclaim "AH HA! I didn't know that!" I do, however recommend that beginners start with You Tube. The author of this book does an excellent series of 8 basic lessons on Premiere Elements 15 (the basics didn't change much for 18). Watch those first, then come to this book to cement and expand on what you learned. Do both and you will get really good, really fast at using Premiere Elements 18.Tip: I found the binding very tight. Hard to keep the book open while reading as I tested lessons on the computer. Solved it by taking the book to the OfficeMAX printing department. I had them slice off the original binding then drill holes and insert a comb binding. Cheap solution. Much easier to use now.

This is an outstanding intro and guide to all editions of premiere elements, with up to date info on the many tweaks to 2018. Don't be fooled by this being a Create Space title-- it is professional quality all the way, with full color, and would be well over $90+ if published by Adobe, Pearson, etc. GREAT value for your dollar, with extensive coverage of all interfaces from completely beginner/guided to very advanced, so regardless of your user level, this has a lot to offer.I usually use the full Premier version as a CC subscriber, but needed to do a quick edit of a long completed film. Instead of pouring over all kinds of YouTubes or Lynda.com videos, I gave this a try, and what a good decision! Full of both tips and examples as well as reference material. At the expert level Elements approaches straight Premier, but the terms and GUI are different enough that this book will save you a LOT of time. For example, if you're marking segment cuts in the timeline in Premiere, you choose cut or ripple cut to join the middle segments, and use handles as well as markers to define your transitions. In Elements, even at the beginner levels, you just intuitively mark the cuts, then right click to join and right click again to choose a "fade out fade in" transition, for example.Beyond beginners, the book takes you step by step through not only process, but also defining editing terms, NOT assuming you know all they are talking about, making it ideal for self study. Also, unlike a lot of related titles, it does not require that you follow a 'project" to get what you're trying to learn. Highly recommended.

I'm really beginning to HATE writers of software instruction manuals. They skimp on the basics and devote most of the book to arcane crap you'll NEVER use. Their attitude seems to be "Well, EVERYONE has used some version of Premiere before, haven't they? So we don't need to spend a whole lotta time on basics, right?"Wrong. You can't use the special features in Premiere if you haven't learned the fundamentals first. I've bought both the official Adobe manual and the Muvpix guide and NEITHER gives a straightforward, step-by-step procedure for editing a video from START TO FINISH. The authors jump from subject to subject, introducing pages of extraneous detail that should be saved for later, and in the process they forget what they originally set out to do. I honestly believe that these guys write their manuals from memory and never proofread them. The fact that they omit a few steps here and there doesn't seem to concern them much.This book is largely a waste of money if you haven't used some version of Premiere before. It's like most so-called "Users' Manuals" published today: poorly organized, badly balanced, inadequately indexed, but beautifully illustrated. (The old adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words" does NOT apply to software manuals.)Bottom line: it'll take a bit longer, but save the money you were going to spend on this book and find one of the many online tutorials for Premiere. In the long run it'll be cheaper and less frustrating than trying to decipher Grisetti's mess.

I haven't been through it completely but what I have read is clear and seems well organized. I need that because I will need the book to learn the program.

This is a must have valuable tool for people using Elements. Steve provides all the practical advice you need to use the program well. I found lots of less-than-intuitive problems using the program and was delighted to find all the answers to my questions. In addition his style is easy to understand and he brings out the consistency embedded in the program user interface so you start to really feel you know how to get to what you want to do.He goes further than I had hoped with useful settings on some of the more tricky features so you have a place to start and don't have to spend so much time trying to work out what to set them at - really bringing to the table his great expertise for his readers advantage.I liked the book so much I also bought his 50 cool tricks that I am reading right at the moment.If you want to use Elements 2018, buy the book - you will not be disappointed, and you will achieve more, faster.Well done Steve!

Very good book, Great detail on how to do it. A great reference manual.

This is an excellent third-party manual, but the index is weak, and it doesn't cover everything. Still, it is definitely worth the money, because Adobe's native documentation/support is not so good.

Was looking for details that were not covered in Help -Beat Matching for one example... NO mention of the Auto function not working, finally found the work-around on a forum. When you spend this amount of $$ for a book - you expect the author to have a serious working knowledge of the app. Totally disappointed.