Getting Started With Adobe Premiere; About This Guide - Adobe PREMIERE 5 User Manual

Getting Started with Adobe
Premiere 5.0
W
elcome to Adobe Premiere —software that brings the world of digital movie
making to the desktop. Premiere lets you record, create, and play video programs
using video, sound, animations, photographs, drawings, text, and other material
on your Windows or Power Macintosh computer.
You can play movies created in Premiere in any application that supports the Apple QuickTime
format or (in Windows only) the DirectShow
a number of ways, including to videotape, to an Edit Decision List (EDL), or to MPEG or
Animated GIF format.

About this guide

The Adobe Premiere User Guide provides detailed information about using Premiere. It is
designed to be used as a reference tool in your everyday work with Premiere. This manual
provides instructions for using Premiere on both Windows and Mac OS systems. Any
differences in Premiere procedures between operating systems are noted in the text.
This book assumes you have a working knowledge of your operating system and its conven-
tions, including how to use a mouse and standard menus and dialog boxes and how to open,
save, and close files. For help with any of these techniques, please see your Windows or
Mac OS documentation.
format, or you can output video programs in
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