Adobe Premier Pro 2.0 review

Adobe Premier is one of the essential tools for any video editor to accomplish video editing and capturing various video formats, edit it and output it in different media such as tapes, TV, DVD or web.
The new version of Adobe Premier Pro 2.0 comes up with new cool features that enhance your work and give you the ability to have a client review version of you work in many methods such as PDF, Email, client review DVD version.
As part of the Adobe Production Studio package, Adobe Premier Pro 2.0 is highly integrated with other Adobe Video products such as Adobe Encore, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Audition and especially Adobe After Effects, which enables you to drag and drop, copy and paste your work between the two products.

The new Premier Pro gives you the capabilities to output your work for web and use in your Flash projects by the ability to export your video work as FLV video format, which is gives you a small video size suitable for using on the web in a variety of methods such as embedding to Flash, progressive download or streaming over the net to your client.

When you buy Adobe Premier Pro 2.0, you will get 17 hours of free training DVD to introduce you to the Adobe Production Studio package software and how to use it.

The new customizable workspace in Adobe Premier Pro 2.0 helps you to benefit from the space for your work and gives you the ability to dock and group panels as well as resizing panels and separating any panel form its group.

Figure1. The new customizable workspace in Adobe Premier Pro 2.0

Another great feature in Adobe Premier Pro 2.0 is the Integrated Titling tool, which allows you to create text, graphics and text effects for your project wither from scratch or from a template.

With this new feature you do not have to create your text in other program such as Photoshop, just open the new Titling tool and create your text and apply the text effect desired on it.

Figure2. Integrated titling tool

If you like to send your edited video to your client to review and comment, the new Clip Notes feature helps you creating PDF files of your work to send to your client and get feedback from their comments.

Figure3. The Clip Notes Export panel

And authoring DVD becomes very simple using the DVD Layout menu which allows you to choose a sequence in the timeline, select you DVD layout from template and simply create your DVD content.

Figure4. DVD Layout panel

In Addition to the above, Adobe Premier Pro contains other new features such as a new Lighting effects filter, Subclip creation, scrolling timeline panel, Feets + frames timecode native HDV editing support, uncompressed HD support, GPU-accelerated render, Multicam editing to edit shoots from multiple-camera and view simultaneously in the quad-view monitor.

And as we said above, Adobe provides a high integration between Adobe Production Studio package and easy access to our resources using Adobe Bridge, which allows you to reach manage multiple files in the same time.

The new Adobe Premier Pro costs 849$ and if you have an old version of the software, I see the new features really worth to upgrade for 199$. You can find more info about Adobe Premier Pro 2.0 at Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/

Reviewing Inside Outside Design (Reviewed by: Rafiq Elmansy)

Product Details:
Writer: Malcolm Grear
Book Name: Inside Outside From the Basics to the Practice of Design
Publisher: New Riders Press
ISBN: 0-321-44067-6
URL: http://www.peachpit.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0321440676&rl=1

Actually, I do not find many books like Malcolm book Inside Outside Design, although I think it is very important for computer designer to know how to merge their academic design and visual studies in their work.Malcolm Grear, the writer of this book, has played a vital role in the industry of design by working as a designer and educator for about 48 years. You can find this obvious from the first paper sin the book.The Inside Outside book provides you a practical way to learn how to use the design and visual concept in the design career. It gives you the basic background that helps your mind generate new ideas based on the theories of design and visual communication, such as working with letters and typography.The book includes a lot of images that help delivering the concept described.You can take the easy way in your designs by following the current styles of designs and animations in your work, but this will not give your ideas the excellence. Understanding the ideas in this book will help you create original creative designs.
Reviewed by: Rafiq Elmansy

Real World Adobe Illustrator CS2 (Reviewed by: Rafiq ELmansy)

Product Details:
Writer: Mordy Golding
Book Name: Real World Adobe Illustrator CS2
Publisher: Peachpit Press
ISBN: 0321337026
URL: http://www.peachpit.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0321337026&rl=1

The Real World Adobe Illustrator CS2 is your perfect guide to Illustrator CS2. It gives you a full coverage of this vector graphic program, supported with illustrations and demonstration figures.
With the easy way the book uses, you will a professional in Illustrator. This book gives you in 12 chapters all you need to work perfectly with Illustrator. The book starts with introducing the program working environment in the first chapter, and goes deeper step by step in later chapters to let you explore and understand the Vector graphic and Illustrator objects and tools.
Also, it covers some new features in the new Illustrator CS2 such as Live Trace, Live Paint …etc.
By the end of the book, you will learn how to get your work out of Illustrator by discussing saving and exporting files form it.

Although this book is for intermediate and advanced level, I recommend this book for beginner too. And Take advantage of its simple easy way to deliver the info.

Reviewed by: Rafiq Elmansy