Premiere Elements and DVD Production

Apr
30
2006

Yesterday, my mom and a friend of hers came down for a little workshop in video editing and DVD production. It's all being driven by my dad starting to produce videos on how to paint the fish replica product line he produces. The videos will cover how to airbrush the fiberglass blanks, in detail.

They had done one prototype, but weren't happy with the quality and had asked me to give them a hand with the equipment, software, etc. So, a month or so ago, I gave them a shopping list of books, software and the camera to get them started. Yesterday's workshop was a hands-on look at that stuff.

Anyway, they came down with a PC and their new 3 CCD DV cam and a bit of test footage. We installed Premiere Elements 2.0 ($55 after rebate) and set to work.

I have to say I was impressed with Premiere Elements. I had used the regular version of Premiere the last time I messed much with video, which is why I had her buy that for this project. I knew that Adobe generally keeps the same interface conventions when they do an "Elements" version of something and it would be relative easy for me to latch on to.

That was the case here. It didn't take long for us to have captured video, titles, credits, transitions, music, etc. all integrated and DVD's with menus produced. Their "final project" only took 30 minutes to produce a 10 minute video with all of those elements in it.

If you're looking to do basic DVD production, I'd definitely give Adobe PE a look. I know I'm going to be using it to do custom DVD's for the home theater.

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