Video editing software has been around for many years and for many years only people who were in the movie business or had a large budget could afford to use such software. Even when your average home videographer was able to afford their own video camera, they still had no reasonable way to edit their movies. Now that everyone has a smartphone and considers themselves a professional movie maker, the need to edit their own footage has dramatically increased. Thankfully, Adobe has released a reasonably priced, yet powerful version of their professional video editing software called Premiere Elements that allows anyone with a camera and a computer to make some great looking movies.

If you have some basic computer skills and a little creativity, it's not too difficult to create your own movies that look like they were produced by a pro. You can even use the footage from your smartphone to create custom videos and add all kinds of fun effects, text and music to your movies.

The goal of this book is to get you up and running with Premiere Elements and cover all the things you need to know to get you started on making professional looking videos without confusing you at the same time. It sticks with the basics yet covers a wide variety of topics to help you achieve some great looking results without needing to be a movie editing expert.

The chapters in the book cover the following topics:

Chapter 1 - What is Adobe Premiere Elements?

Chapter 2 - The Premiere Elements Interface

Chapter 3 - Starting the Editing Process

Chapter 4 - Basic Premiere Tasks

Chapter 5 - Enhancing Your Videos

Chapter 6 - Exporting and Sharing Your Video

About the Author
James Bernstein has been working with various companies in the IT field since 2000, managing technologies such as SAN and NAS storage, VMware, backups, Windows Servers, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Networking, Microsoft Office, Exchange, and more.
He has obtained certifications from Microsoft, VMware, CompTIA, ShoreTel, and SNIA, and continues to strive to learn new technologies to further his knowledge on a variety of subjects.
He is also the founder of the website OnlineComputerTips.com, which offers its readers valuable information on topics such as Windows, networking, hardware, software, and troubleshooting. Jim writes much of the content himself and adds new content on a regular basis. The site was started in 2005 and is still going strong today.