Publisher:
Delmar/Cengage Learning
As with the entire "Revealed" line from Delmar, The Video Collection CS5 Revealed is a textbook. In this case, it is designed to help you pass the Adobe Product Proficiency Exam for Adobe Premiere Pro. For the most part, the book assumes you have little to no experience with any of the Production Suite products, although there are places it does assume you have some familiarity with Adobe products in general.
I consider myself to be an intermediate level user of Premiere, and a bit more than beginner level with both After Effects and Encore. I'm a rank amateur with Soundbooth - at least until this book came my way. Even with having made some short films previously, I found that this book offered me a continual learning experience by providing me with good, useful information even in the early projects.