muse

I've completed about 90% of my holiday shopping and wrapping for the year and it isn't even december yet. Go Me! I usually procrastinate hardcore when it comes to that sort of thing.

Now if only I cold get my school work done with as much enthusiasm. The current thing I need to hurry and put together is an AV project that basically emphasizes a specific aesthetic of the particular book we've decided to read. The only thing I've put together is the audio track with Audacity (an amazing and free bit of software that I wish I had stumbled upon earlier). The biggest thing I'm lacking right now is a video clip of the world exploding. Anyone out there know where I could download something like that?

I'm downloading a trial version of Adobe's Premier Pro CS3 as I type this hoping that it will help me out with this project and also personal projects to come (I have a ton of videos that I'd like to piece together and polish up). I just need to see if I can handle the program before I invest the $800 to keep it. I'm hoping that my familiarity with other Adobe products will give me an upper hand on it.

Anyone familiar with the program? Any tips or tutorials you can point me to? Care to share what you've created with it?

I'd really like to know what this baby can do.