Foreword

My first exposure to Adobe Premiere dates back to the introduction of QuickTime. I’m embarrassed to admit that I was so tied up in the video production equipment we were using then that I really questioned the significance of this little novelty portion of the Apple Macintosh OS to professionals, as I watched some small, low-resolution, low–frame rate video that my partner had captured off the television to demonstrate the wonders of his brand-new Macintosh Quadra 840.

In those early days, Adobe Premiere was one of very few players in nonlinear video editing. My next recollection of Adobe Premiere was of versions 3.0 and 4.0, when a gentleman named Flavio Kampah was exploring what could be done with motion graphics, just before we went ...

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