Premiere Pro independent reference book

Hi,
There are number of very good authors out there when it comes to Photoshop; Jeff Schewe, Martin Evening, Matt Kloskowski to name but a few. However I can’t find any good instructional/reference books when it comes to Premiere Pro.
The kind of book I’m looking for would describe Intermediate to Advanced techniques covering video ingestion to export but using Premiere Pro [CS6 or CC] as the Software medium, possibly including After Effects but not as the main subject.
The PDF manual for PremPro CC [and associated links] is great but no substitute for a well thought out reference book by an independent author.
The Adobe Classroom series are also quite good if you want to follow a step be step guide. Not much use if you want a detailed description of some s/w aspect, or think out of the box.
Can anyone offer any suggestions please?
Thanks,
Lyndon

Even if that were the starting point of every new PP user, it's still only part of step 2 on shooter's list. Step 1 really should be done first when using software at this level.
We will have to just let that be a disagreement that can't be settled between us.
I didn't know anything about editing but I pretty much knew what my very first video should look like when I was done with it. It was instinctive, and based on other travel videos I had seen. I just knew that the other software didn't let me edit the way I wanted to edit, and Premiere did. Not that I knew the "right" way, just that I knew what I wanted to do.
Looking back on it now, I am not particularly displeased with the results. If I were to do it today I would have less dissolves and more straight cuts, but all in all it wasn't bad. And, more important, the family liked it. One of my older brothers tried to insult me a bit, as older brothers are sometimes prone to do, and said it was like watching PBS. What he didn't realize is that I would be thrilled by the comparison.
I have to assume that there are lots of other people in the same place that I was when I started. But nowadays it is easier to learn. Does it matter that I didn't know anything at all about editing? Not really. It came out OK.
As I write this I am trying to figure out exactly what might be meant by "Learn how to EDIT". Is that understanding how Walter Murch would do it? Or is there some other way to learn to edit? Tutorials? Books? If so, which ones?
What exactly do you guys mean by that and do you both mean the same thing? Is studying films or documentaries that you enjoy sufficient? I know it is certainly advisable. Do you really think that going to college is required to produce vacation videos good enough to post to YouTube for the enjoyment of your family?
But even that is often skipped by most of the people we're talking about.
I think that is actually the heart of the issue. Which is why I link to it so often, and I wish I could get everyone to agree to start almost all answers that are too general with a link to the tutorial.
John Smith does a pretty good job of posting some links. I wonder what would happen if it started with a link to the Eagle tutorial?

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Since the links are to the on-line CS6 help and the PDF version of that help, both of which are a collection of materials concerning CS5, CS5.5 and CS6...
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Groppler wrote:
...without sorting through irrelevant information or navigating to all these third-party sites to see if they have information you are looking for.
None of the community content is irrelevant. I sort through it all very carefully. Community content is supportive and helpful to users. It should not be necessary to sort through these tutorials as the info should be right in the docs. Community content is supplemental. If you don't find the information you were looking for in the docs themselves, create a comment right on the Help page and I'll see to it that it gets fixed ASAP.
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I am quite surprised by this and think the absence of a real user guide is a significant shortcoming of Premiere Pro, not shared by other products on the market.
It is a real user guide. I'm sorry you don't feel that way. If you want a doc with only Premiere Pro CS6 info in it, I can understand that request. Unfortunately, that was impossible for this round.
If you have any suggestions for the next round of Help documentation, a better place than here would be the Community Help forum. Please voice your concerns there, as the people that actually make decisions about Help are hanging out there.

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