Looking for a book or website

[PharmBoy]

I use premiere pro to edit family videos. Mainly at christmas time and send them out to friends and family rather than cards. They all love them. I have used the tips from wrigley productions to make some neat special effects. I have now pretty much exhausted these tips or cannot figure how to do the same effect from earlier versions. I am wanting a book or website that will do the exact same thing as Wrigley does. Not just "this is a timeline... this is a preview window..." those are way too basic. I know that special effects aren't what make the movie but it does spice it up gets me several WOW HOW DID YOU DO THAT!!! Any help would be appreciated.

Jeff

[redwudz]

Have you tired a Google search for 'premiere pro tutorials'? You should get a decent list of what is available.

[guns1inger]

Creative Cow
Adobe
Google

[lordsmurf]

Want a book? Look up "Adobe Premiere" at amazon.com and see what pops up. Or visit your local book store.

[PharmBoy]

Thanks for the replies
Google search leaves me with various sites that usually go back to wrigley productions. Adobe tutorials are more about the pure operation again not creative special effects but mainly just "this is your timebar" I have searched amazon but its hard to tell if there is good content from the title/sample pages. I have also gone to lynda.com but again most of it is purely operation not creativity conent/special effects which is what I am looking for. Was hoping that some of the adobe users had specifics they could share.

[mikiem]

Perhaps what you're looking for is more along the lines of editing ideas? Adjust your searching to include places like DV.com forums? THere are loads of purely creative sites, many linked off of Adobe etc., regarding Flash, even off Microsoft's site. Maybe find some links off creativepro?

[daamon]

I am wanting a book or website that will do the exact same thing as Wrigley does. Not just "this is a timeline... this is a preview window..." those are way too basic.

This may be of interest:

www.creativecow.net/show.php?forumid=3&page=/articles/kurkoski_tim/premiere_pro/index.html

I know it's not Wrigley Video on paper, but may inspire you.

Another approach is to set yourself an objective: "I want to achieve ??? effect(s) in a project" and then go and learn how to do it. The struggle, if you're challenged creatively (like me), is to come up with the "???" in the first place.

I get my inspiration from films and TV shows - I note anything I spot and think "How is that done?" then go and try and learn it.

Hope that helps...

[edDV]

Also these. You can buy them on ebay and sell them on ebay.
http://www.totaltraining.com/prod/adobe/premierepro15.asp?mscsid=

[PharmBoy]

I spent a couple of hours at Borders yesterday looking through some books and it all seems that they have some of what I want just not devoted entirely to the creativity part. I had heard of creativecow but never looked there for ideas so thanks guns1inger and daamon. Looks too like I might need to spend some time looking around dv.com. Thanks everyone for your help. This is one of the most helpful websites I have ever found.

[abcedem]

THis might not be very helpful to you...but if it's effects you want, shouldn't you be looking at learning After Effects instead??