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Tutorials
To make the most of our new-style website, SimplyDV will be bringing you new tutorials and how-to pages designed to help you get the most out of your camera or camcorder. So, if you fancy making your video clips stand out from the crowd then start right here.
Everyone seems to be shooting video with their camcorders, mobile phones and even their digital cameras and sharing their clips with the world on YouTube or Facebook. But are you impressed with what you see? Don’t you yearn to produce something that bit more professional? Follow these friendly, jargon-free, tutorials and you’ll discover talents you didn’t realise you had!
“Getting Started with Premiere Elements 7″ DVDs
We’re please to announce that we’re offering SimplyDV readers a special package price on our exclusive set of tutorial DVDs which are designed to get you started with the fabulous Adobe Premiere Elements package.
Premiere Elements 7 DVDs now only £14.95
Yes, that’s right. The full set of 5 tutorial DVDs containing 39 tutorial modules now costs only £14.95 (plus p&p).
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Adobe’s Premiere Elements consumer/low-cost prosumer video editing and authoring software is arguably the best in its class and has consistently offered users a superb and easy-to-understand user interface complete with good reliability.
The package has been used for the production of materials at SimplyDV even though we also have its professional-standard sibling, Premiere Pro CS4, on hand and we like it a lot. It’s for that reason that we decided to make Premiere Elements the subject of our first own-label DVD tutorials.
With almost 7 hours of tutorials you’ll be using Adobe’s award-winning program like you’ve been editing digital video for years!
Devised, presented and produced by SimplyDV’s very own Colin Barrett, the content-packed DVDs are designed to help you create video clips which you can proudly show off to family members, friends and even work colleagues.
Relaxed, friendly style – it’s like having the tutor seated next to you
Since launching the DVDs in 2009, we’ve had lots of highly favourable comments from satisfied customers who love the friendly and jargon-free style of the DVDs and who value the fact that no assumptions are made of users’ existing knowledge of experience.
Just as a taster, here’s a sample module from DVD Disc 1:
As you can see, the tutorials are designed with you in mind; you can decided what to watch and when. You can work through the 39 modules contained in the 5-disc set at a pace to suit you and experiment with your own material as your skills develop. What could be simpler?
Here’s another sample clip containing excerpts from a module on Disc 4:
You can see for yourself that the modules are all presented in a friendly, over-your-shoulder style and don’t assume any prior editing knowledge or experience. Moreover, the 5 discs contain over 7 hours – yes, 7 hours! – of useful tips and tricks to get you going.
Editing your camera and camcorder clips is easy when you know how – so order yours now and start editing like a pro!
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Wow, thanks!!! Yes, I’m coming to the conclusion that PRE9 leaves much to be desired and that PRE7 was the last decent version. Even Stad Def editing on PC can be hard work – and using the software on anything less than a full-flight Mac is a complete waste of time. It looks like Adobe is blowing it all away, which is a pity.
Anyhow, it’s always gratifying to get positive feedback – especially to the “oops” bits. I intentionally kept them in for the reason you mentioned above. Cheers.
Colin
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#3 written by oscarAckerman 1 year ago
To the people with PEL8:
I have PEL8 and have just finished the Tutorials for PEL7.
I can say that I hardly didn’t notice – the interface seems to be the same. There are a few new things in PREL8, such as support for the IPAD, but you don’t need a tutorial to figure it out. I think the AutomaticAnalyser is new too, but that is such a nuisance everybody advises turning it off.
It’s well worth £15.
Oscar.
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That’s the kind of post I like, Oscar! Although I skipped the task of producing a new set of tutorials for PRE8 for precisely the reason you suggest, I am actually in the process of producing some new ones to introduce people to PRE9. Interestingly, it isn’t much different to PRE8; they’ve moved a few bits and pieces around but, more importantly, they’ve removed a fair bit of stuff that isn’t immediately noticeable until you start rummaging around during editing. Today, I edited some test footage of the new JVC Everio GC-WV10 underwater packetcam which I intentionally shot as 720p because Premiere Elements really doesn’t like 1080/50i, 50p or even 25p clips in 32-bit mode. The next generation will surely be 64-bit and not before time. (That said, it means I have to upgrade technology as well so let’s wait a while).
Of course, the big thing about PRE9 is that it’s now available for Apple Mac users too, which pleases me greatly because the only player in that space at the moment is Final Cut Express – costing more money!
Colin
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#5 written by ShadeSeeker 1 year ago
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Thanks! I’m in the process of producing a new set of downloable modules for Premiere Elements 8 but I’ve been delayed lately by an urgent commission – to produce screencast tutorials in support of a major European Union-funded software development project. I’ll be back on track soon and I’ll post news to everyone asap. Thanks for the kind comments. Watch this space!
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#8 written by Brillo 1 year ago
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I’ve been using PRE7 for quite some time (and am a frequent contributor at the Adobe PRE community forum). My daughter recently expressed a desire to learn a little more about it. So I’ve bought these DVD’s and have run them through myself. I love them – they cover pretty much most of the ground (except SmartSound) and are quintessentially British. The occasional ‘oops’ and ‘don’t know what that one does’ actually (in my opinion) add to the ‘tutor at your side’ feeling.
At £15 they’re a steal. And even better, as PRE9 trial sucks on my machine, I’ll be staying with 7 until PRE10.