Need some handholding regarding Premiere 2.0 (comments thread contains questions)

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preferably in IM chat, because I just don't understand the program well enough to ask useful questions here. Ideally, I'd need someone in RL who could sit beside me so I could point at stuff on the screen and go 'ugh!' (I'm lacking practically the entire vocabulary here) but since it's unlikely that there's a vidder who could give me private lessons where I live, IM will have to do.

I don't really want to do anything *particularly* fancy - mostly just very basic transitions; possibly a white flash, and some slowing down of certain parts. I've played around with the program, on and off, for months, but most of its functions are just utterly mystifying to me.

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Hmm...

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>I think the Adobe site lets you download fully-functional programs that expire after 2 weeks or 30 days or something, but if you just want to do the one project that might be enough time for you?

Hmm... that may be an option. It will have to wait a year, though, because I won't have that kind of time in the next twelve or so months. I can tinker a bit now and then, but two to four weeks of straight editing would kill my M.A. thesis, I'm afraid.