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brenvans
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June 15, 2018
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How To Learn Premier by reading books

  • June 15, 2018
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Are there any other books to learn Premiere without going through the god-awful Classroom in a Book?
The problem is I learn by READING then doing. Can't follow YouTube vids at all.

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    Mike_Abbott
    Mike_Abbott
    Legend
    June 16, 2018

    From what you've said about your learning style, here's a book that I think might suit you. NOTE: It's a good few years out of date (CS6 era I think), but the basic operations of Premiere pro are the same.

    "An Editors guide to Premiere Pro" Harrington, Carman, Greenberg

    ISBN-10: 0321840062

    For more detailed and in depth info - as stated above, Jarle Leirpoll's "The Cool,Stuff in Premiere Pro" book is hard to beat, but this is more of a reference book than a project based book. At 1,100 pages and 2Kg+ it's also good for some arm strengthening exercises at your office desk : )

      Ann Bens
      Community Expert
      Ann BensCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 16, 2018

      With all due respect but I would not go there with that book "An Editors guide to Premiere Pro"

      So much has changed, moved around, shortcut changed, the use of the modifier key.

      Might get very confusing and frustrating.

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      rodneyb56060189
      Legend
      June 16, 2018

      I sorta have same learning thing. Must read, sometimes have to write it manually to really recall later, and then "do" also. The very early Lydia tutorials helped (run tutorial, pause as needed, go to program, do part of lesson, go back to tutorial ). I had the discs for that tutorial stuff (don't know if they still sell discs).

      But the REAL learning was from making my own notebook ( a 3 ring binder which was HUGE ). By printing out help files and reading as I put in book (as well as on computer before printing) I was able to make a good help source and reference book. I used tabs to mark 'sections' of the book. Used a lot of paper. Did NOT print out entire help file, only what I wanted.

      Good thing was that I could add printed material about related subjects. Like maybe some references to codecs or tech info about changing FPS ( drop frames, etc. ), tons of related materials. Took about a year or maybe longer but it really helped.

      Sometimes I would also copy paste help from this forum and print THAT and put in book.

      : )

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      excited_Genie16B8
      Legend
      June 15, 2018

      I second the suggestion to read the manual.  It's a good way to learn how the software works.

      https://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/premiere_pro_reference.pdf

      Ann Bens
      Community Expert
      Ann BensCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 15, 2018

      The trouble with youtube is there are good tutorials out there but you need to find them first. There are also tutorials that are utterly rubbish.

      www.lynda.com has excellent courses.

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        brenvansAuthor
        Participant
        June 15, 2018

        Thanks. Unfortunately my learning style is visual (reading), tactical (doing), then auditory. YouTube is totally out of my ballpark on learning style.
        I'm looking for something like the good Class Rooms in a Book that walk you through a project step-by-step.

        Ann Bens
        Community Expert
        Ann BensCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        June 15, 2018

        Do you want to learn how to use the program or how to edit?

        If you just want to learn the program just download the manual and start from there.

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