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Final Cut Pro 3 and DVD Studio Pro Handbook
Final Cut Pro 3 and DVD Studio Pro Handbook
- ISBN13: 9781584502005
- Condition: USED – Very Good
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With recent advances in technology, the exciting realms of digital editing and DVD authoring are now within reach of most graphics professionals. Until now, editing and rendering animations to fit on VHS and compressing digital images for delivery meant sacrificing quality. But with Apple Final Cut Pro 3, DVD Studio Pro, and the practical guidance found in this book, designers and animators can edit and deliver their creations with excellent results.
Written for graphics professionals, animators, video artists, and users of Final Cut Pro and other popular video packages (iMovie, iDVD, Premiere), the Final Cut Pro 3 and DVD Studio Pro Handbook provides hands-on practice for the entire digital editing process. The book is broken into two main parts. Part One provides an in depth look at FCP and basic cinematography and editing concepts. It includes a detailed review of non-linear digital video editing (NLDVE), outlines the technical specifications for DVD, and provides a comprehensive overview of Final Cut Pro 3. From there the book delves into the process of editing and delivering media productions. Using raw video files from the book’s companion DVD, users work through every step of the editing process, from importing and editing media, to audio techniques, effects, outputting FCP data, and exporting to DVD. In Part Two, users learn how to use the core features of DVD Studio Pro, such as creating compressed media, importing streaming media, designing still and motion based menus, adding fully functional interactivity, and integrating subtitles.
Highlights!
* Provides a practical guide to using both FCP 3 and DVD Studio Pro
* Teaches FCP editing techniques through concise tutorials and raw video files
* Guides users through the fundamentals of DVD Studio Pro
* Includes a companion DVD (Mac) with raw video footage and the support files for all the tutorials in the book
On the DVD!
* Tutorial files for each chapter, including all of the media files
* FCP and DVDSP files from the tutorials for further investigation
* All of the figures from the book in full color for closer examination and use
Picture Yourself Directing a Movie: Step-by-Step Instruction for Short Films, Documentaries, and More
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Have you always wanted to make your own movie, but weren’t sure howto get started? Look no further-you hold in your hands the perfect guide for entering the exciting world of filmmaking. Picture Yourself Directing a Movie provides a step-by-step look at the fundamental directing techniques and principles you need to know to make your film idea a reality. Using an easy-to-follow format illustrated with numerous full-color photos, Picture Yourself Directing a Movie walks you through the process of effectively visualizing your script, composing quality shots, staging scenes, and working with actors. You’ll also learn to tell your visual story with maximum impact through proper camera placement and movement. Unlike other books on filmmaking, Picture Yourself Directing a Movie steers clear of difficult-to-understand industry jargon and never gets overly technical. It’s simply a guide to producing a quality amateur film from start to finish-with the added bonus that you’re being taught the tricks of the trade by a successful Hollywood director and screenwriter!
Filmmaking for Teens: Pulling Off Your Shorts
Filmmaking for Teens: Pulling Off Your Shorts
- ISBN13: 9781932907681
- Condition: New
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Learning After Effects CS4
- 4.5 hours of video training
- Project files and video footage included
- (Reg. $99.99)
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4.5 hours of video training Project files and video footage included — Have you ever seen stunning animations on Movies, TV and DVD and wished you could create these types of motion graphics? You can get started in Motion Graphics today, using the Industry Standard: Adobe After Effects. — Motion Graphics Guru, Jeff Foster guides you through the world of After Effects and Video without using confusing jargon, or overly long-winded explanations. In a Plain English style, Jeff will have you using After Effects in no time at all. His techniques are proven because he has 20 years experience in the field, creating real projects for Studios and clients. Learn all the key features of After Effects including the new ones in CS4! — This fast loading DVD ROM contains over 4.5 hours of brand new sharp video. The advanced interface allows the user to instantly jump to any of the 38 lessons with complete control over the playback. All the lesson files are included, so you can follow along at your own pace! — If you have been wanting to create motion graphics, video editor, designer, hobbyist: this disk is for you!
Writing A Great Script Fast Workbook: Story For Digital Filmmaking
Writing A Great Script Fast Workbook: Story For Digital Filmmaking
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Story is the hardest thing to learn for most digital filmmakers these days, since the technology has become so inexpensive and easy to use. What if you had a universal story brainstorming roadmap to help you think up all the best possible narrative ideas for your project at each step? This Workbook contains a series of simple questions you answer about your story idea to create a great script fast. Lists of possible story ideas are given at each step to avoid any writer’s block. For example, when it is time to pick a plot goal for your story, you have over 100 to choose from for fresh ideas. This Writing A Great Script Fast Workbook is designed to be used with the 20 hour, 19 part, DVD workshop “Writing A Great Script Fast.” It may also be used as a stand-alone story development tool. Many sample videos from the workshop can also be found on YouTube. Sections: 1. Brainstorming For Story Ideas, 2. Creating Characters, Themes & Symbols, 3. Developing Plot Points, 4. Writing Scenes & The Script. Based on the bestselling books “Developing Digital Short Films” (2004 New Riders / Peachpit) and “Maya 2 Character Animation” (1999 New Riders) by Sherri Sheridan. Covers the top 20 books on screenwriting, film and animation in easy to follow steps with 1000′s of story techniques learned along the way. Over 100 films, stories and animations were broken down to create this universal story blueprint engine. This story development workshop includes a focus on creating film ideas you can make yourself, or with a small team, using low budget digital filmmaking techniques. “This is a step-by-step guide to craft an award winning film without going bankrupt!” – Digital Dispatch News. “The ultimate story class for digital filmmakers!” – CG Magazine
Writing A Great Script Fast Workbook: Story For Digital Filmmaking
The Digital Filmmaking Handbook
The Digital Filmmaking Handbook
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With the advent of digital video and desktop editing software, scores of independent producers have found themselves equipped to make their own movies. Because filmmaking involves much more than just buying a camera and a computer, there’s The Digital Filmmaking Handbook. This one-stop digital filmmaking resource guides aspiring filmmakers from initial conception to getting a finished project “in the can.” From writing and preproduction planning to shooting and post-production editing and effects, this book will serve as the single-volume film school. Completely updated and revised, this third edition includes thorough information on a number of important new DV technologies including HDV, a very affordable new standard that lets even low-budget producers work in high-definition video. The expanded lighting and shooting chapters include new technical information as well as a wealth of new theory. New exercises offer help with everything from writing to special effects, while all of the chapters have been revised to cover the very latest hardware, software, and production workflows. This book will help filmmakers understand the questions to ask so that they can better prepare for and solve the myriad problems throughout the production process. The companion DVD includes project files, film clips, support material for tutorials in the book, and additional video tutorials and essays.
FEATURES * Provides completely updated coverage of digital technology, software, and techniques * Teaches digital filmmaking from start to finish—storyboarding and budgeting, to casting, shooting, and finishing * Details the best hardware and software tools to use * Details new output methods, including coverage of DVD authoring * Includes a companion DVD with project files, film clips, and all support material for tutorials in the book. Also includes additional video tutorials and essaysAmazon.com Review
The title of The Digital Filmmaking Handbook is something of an oxymoron, because this thorough book covers everything you need to know about filmmaking production, from concept to screening. The only missing element is film itself.
Film and video production are in transition. Film and analog videotape rapidly are approaching the end of their technological lives, being replaced by digital videotape and digital cameras. You can buy computers that connect to DV cameras and edit DV tape almost anywhere, and they cost only slightly more than an entry-level computer. The Digital Filmmaking Handbook, then, is for anyone buying into the DV revolution who wants to do more than shoot home movies of the kids. It’s for filmmakers young and old, professional and hobbyist, who want to learn to shoot, edit, and make great movies.
Unlike traditional filmmaking books, in which only the camera and some audio and editing equipment are addressed, part of this book approaches the medium from a computer hardware and software perspective. Numerous hardware issues like choosing the components for an editing workstation (chapter 5), the kind of digital video camera to use (chapter 6), selecting editing and audio software (chapter 7), and various output formats (chapter 18) are discussed. Also, there are chapters on effects, making video look like film (chapter 17), and digital titling (chapter 16).
The book never strays from speaking to moviemakers instead of moviemaking-gear buyers. Everything from preproduction tasks (such as scripting, storyboarding, and budgeting) to production tasks (like set preparation, lighting, filming (sans film), and sound recording) through final editing, color correction, titles, and output is explained. Filmmaking is heavily dependent on technology, and each of these subjects is well covered. Chapters on audio, for example, include selection of microphone types; differences between mic types; how to connect mics to a DV camera or synchronize audio in postproduction; how to control sound levels; and so on.
The chapter on editing reflects the experience of the authors. Films are understood through their own language, and how scenes are edited determines the dialect of that language. Such techniques as matching screen position, matching emotion and tone, matching action, when to use pauses and overlapping edits, and the effect of pauses and pull-ups (shortening a scene) are defined and justified.
If you can’t get into NYU’s film school–or even if you can–The Digital Filmmaking Handbook is a worthy reference to keep at your fingertips. –Mike Caputo
Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques
Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques
- ISBN13: 9780470452615
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Learn professional secrets of digital compositing with this detailed guide
After filming is done, digital compositors move in to manipulate color, retouch, and perform other behind-the-scenes tricks that are necessary to improve or finalize movies, games, and commercials. Now you can learn their secrets with this one-of-a-kind guide to digital compositing.
Professional animator and author Lee Lanier not only draws upon his own experience, he has also combed some of Hollywood’s most active post-production houses in search of the best solutions. Learn valuable techniques, tricks, and more.
- Covers techniques for digital compositing including transformations, plate preparation, rotoscoping, advanced render passes, particle integration, 2.5D painting, HDRI, stereoscopy and more
- Shows you digital compositing techniques that can be applied to a variety of software tools, including After Effects and Nuke
- Includes a DVD with scenes, sample bitmaps, image sequences, and more
Start your animation career right with the solid instruction in postproduction you’ll find in this practical guide.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Professional Digital Compositing: Essential Tools and Techniques
How to Wow: Photoshop CS4 for Digital Filmmaking
How to Wow: Photoshop CS4 for Digital Filmmaking
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Every independent filmmaker and video artist knows that the quality of their work has a lot to do with the tools available to them for creating a particular look. And for those who don’t have thousands of dollars to spend on achieving high-production value, they now have another option available. With the release of Photoshop Extended last year, functionality for video was added to Adobe’s flagship imaging application. Now that Photoshop Extended is the standard Photoshop tool in nearly all of Adobe CS4 suites, many more users will want to learn all the opportunities for video this exciting program brings.
This book shows filmmakers, students, video editors, and home users how to use Photoshop Extended creatively, covering topics such as rotoscoping, color matching and correcting, and creating effects while offering specific hands-on projects such as “painting out” unwanted subjects, elimating glare from glass, changing the weather in a scene, creating new signage on a building, and much more. New features of Photoshop Extended CS4 are discussed and an overview is provided of new 3D features, texture maps, lighting features, the Timeline, and more.
Using the proven techniques from the best-selling How to Wow series of books, author Geno Andrews takes you through all the steps to giving your film and video projects the look they need to stand apart. Along with the lessons, the DVD contains all of the footage from the scenes discussed, with additional commentary from the author/filmmaker.
Digital Filmmaking – The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures
Digital Filmmaking – The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures
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Large (8 1/2″ x 11″) Softcover with 267 pages. Filled with lots of b/w and colored photos and illustrations. – This book is the professional “bible” of the new era in filmmaking. This book details the procedural, creative, and technical aspects of preproduction, production, and postproduction within a digital filmmaking environment. Readers will understand not only what new digital methods and techniques are redefining the filmmaking process, but also how the evolution into digital filmmaking can be used to achieve greater creative flexibility as well as cost and time savings.
Digital Filmmaking – The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures
303 Digital Filmmaking Solutions : Solve Any Video Shoot or Edit Problem in Ten Minutes or Less, for Ten Dollar or Less
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With the advent of digital video cameras, anyone can shoot and produce a video for very little money — in fact, hundreds of thousands of people are doing so. When video photographers look for guidance, they don’t want to read a big book cover to cover — they want help on their particular problem immediately.
This compendium of solutions is designed to allow anyone to dig into each problem category and quickly find the necessary guidance. Each solution is 2-5 pages in length, most with at least one photo or diagram illustrating the situation. With the help of this book, even a complete neophyte can take advantage of Chuck Gloman’s 22 years in the video trenches and use hard-earned trade secrets to make their videos look professional.