Just because you don't work for a major production house and you don't plan to add Star Wars style special effects to your latest movie project doesn't mean you don't want to do interesting things with the video you've shot. Now, with Adobe's first consumer-level video editing software you can-and at $99, you won't spend an arm and a leg to do so! In these pages, veteran author Antony Bolante provides all the instruction you need to start editing video fast with Adobe Premiere Elements. Just as Photoshop Elements brought image manipulation to the masses, Premiere Elements brings video editing prowess to anybody who owns a digital video camera.

Whether you're a student filmmaker, a video hobbyist, or a proud parent who wants to put together a snazzy film of your daughter's winning soccer season, Antony's simple step-by-step instructions and straightforward teaching style will have you capturing and importing video, creating transitions and titles, and outputting the final product with Premier Elements in no time.