“The Cool Stuff in Premiere Pro” deals with advanced editing techniques to help you make better films. You’ll learn techniques to speed up your workflow dramatically, doing more work, faster, with better looking results. Reading this book, you’ll understand how to edit fast, and do compositing and motion graphics design in Premiere Pro.

One chapter deals with core editing techniques used by professionals to create forward movement in the film and tell the story better.

Premiere Pro template projects and custom preset

Workflow enhancements like Premiere Pro template projects and custom presets are used extensively throughout the book, and you’ll earn how to make your own, and why you should use them.

There’s a chapter on using Premiere Pro in mixed environments, exchanging projects with software like Avid, FCP, Smoke, DaVinci and ProTools.

Integration with Adobe Production Premium

There will be chapters where Dynamic Link to After Effects is used for improved effectiveness, and chapters where you learn how to use Photoshop Extended for pretty advanced video stuff. But most of the time, Premiere Pro can do the job all by itself.

Not for beginners

You’re supposed to know the basics of Premiere Pro before you dive into this book. Although there is a short chapter on basic editing in Premiere Pro in an appendix.

Sample Chapters will be available, so you can take a sneak peek on the material. If you want to be alerted when the book is available, and when free chapters are posted, please send an e-mail.

Expected release (updated once more – life keeps getting in my way): PDF with essential chapters: April 2012. Printed full version: July 2012