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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
Product Description
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
Product Description
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
Product Description
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.
Final Cut Express: Make The Cut
Final Cut Express: Make The Cut
Product Description
Final Cut Express: Make the Cut is written for anyone who has a DV camera, a Macintosh, Final Cut Express, and an idea for a digital film. If you want to learn how to use this affordable, powerful tool to edit your own home movies, documentaries, or short films, this is the book to get you started.
This book is not only a detailed technical guide to the basic procedures in Final Cut Express; it is also a creative, process-oriented tutorial on editing, which will guide you through the entire process from shooting to the final mastering of your film. The coverage throughout the book closely mirrors a real-world production workflow, beginning with an overview of DV camera technology and the shooting process. With this knowledge, you’ll quickly progress to learn how to digitize footage into your computer. From there you’ll begin the editing process, including specifics on working with the FCE timeline and the multitude of editing tools. In the last parts of the book, you’ll learn about the often over-looked FCE color filters, techniques for stylizing your film, and how to master your final work to DV tape, DVD, or QuickTime format.
Using a short documentary about a puppeteer, you’ll work through the editing process and practice with all the essential tools. Along the way, you’ll find lots of pictures to make sure you don’t get lost, and plenty of details about the tools relevant to the editorial workflow. In addition, Final Cut Express often provides multiple ways to accomplish the same task, so we’ve provided instruction on each for you to use and test as you develop your own editorial style.
Key Features:
* Teaches the artistic as well as the technical details of editing
* Provides in-depth instruction on the FCE tools and explains how and why to use each
* Includes real film footage to work with as you progress through the editing process
On the DVD:
* Full film, deconstructed and cut into pieces, chapter by chapter, to help you along the process of actually editing a digital film
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
MAC: Power Macintosh G3/ 300 MHz or faster, Power-book G3/400 MHz or faster, iMac 350 MHz or faster, iBook (Dual USB) 500 MHz or faster, eMac, or Xserve, with built-in FireWire ports. In addition, you’ll need Final Cut Express, at least 4.5 extra Gigabytes on your Hard Drive, and a DVD reader.
Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen
Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen
Product Description
Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen
After Effects CS4 Essential Training
After Effects CS4 Essential Training
Product Description
In After Effects CS4 Essential Training, Chad Perkins teaches fundamental motion graphics design techniques from the ground up. He shows how to gather video, audio, and graphical source materials into layered compositions, make edits and adjustments, then bring it all to life with a powerful array of visual effects and animation techniques. These skills are demonstrated in a series of increasingly intricate projects, from creating a galaxy to building a fantasy battle scene. Chad also demonstrates workflows for keying and compositing, shows how to integrate with other applications, shares useful tips and secrets, and much more. Exercise files accompany the course. Topics Include:
- Importing assets with Bridge
- Blending layers in a composition
- Animating static images with the Puppet tool
- Color-correcting video footage
- Animating in 3D
- Stabilizing shaky footage
- Nesting and precomposing
- Creating visual effects from scratch
- Exporting to video and other media
Duration: 8.75 hours On 1 DVD-ROM System Requirements Macintosh Requirements
- OS 10.3.9 or higher
- DVD-ROM drive
- 1024×768 resolution
- 24-bit video support
- QuickTime 7 or higher
Windows Requirements
- XP or Vista
- DVD-ROM Drive
- 1024×768 resolution
- 24-bit video support
- PC sound card/speakers
- QuickTime 7 or higher (included)
- .NET 2.0 or higher (included)
Goodman/Gloman Digital Filmmaking Bundle
Goodman/Gloman Digital Filmmaking Bundle
Product Description
Presenting two crucial tools for aspiring video producers who want to produce professional quality products, but lack an infusion of movie studio capital. Editing Digital Video covers it all—-commercials, documentaries, feature films, and music videos. Explains how to use any tool from iMovie or Premiere to Avid and Discrete. No-Budget Digital Filmmaking teaches you how to create videos on a shoestring budget along with enterprising suggestions for getting your work distributed. Put the two together and learn how to make winning videos and films without breaking the bank!
After Effects for Flash / Flash for After Effects: Dynamic Animation and Video with Adobe After Effects CS4 and Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
- ISBN13: 9780321606075
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 brings together two powerful animation tools, each of which has its own specialized features and workflow. Learning to integrate Adobe After Effects and Adobe Flash Professional gives you more options for your animations and effects and the power to integrate video and motion graphics into a richer user experience. In this book, authors Richard Harrington and Marcus Geduld lead both types of users, those who are more familiar with either Flash or with After Effects, on using the programs together for maximum efficiency and creativity.
After walking you through the core features of both programs, the authors then explore advanced uses for each application. Each chapter focuses on a particular function of the program, teaching you how to create content for Flash with After Effects, enhance your projects using 3D environments, create professional-looking video with Adobe Media Encoder, and add interactivity, accessibility, and searchability to your video. You’ll also get hands-on experience using the project files on the accompanying DVD.
Within these easy-to-follow, step-by-step lessons, you’ll learn to:
- Seamlessly exchange projects and assets between After Effects and Flash
- Shoot green screen material correctly, work with Keylight, and utilize embedded alpha channels
- Create dynamic text, vector-based animations, and “animated” video using the tools in Adobe Creative Suite 4
- Work with 3D cameras and lights and create 3D environments
- Convert Flash to broadcast and DVD standards with After Effects
- Use Adobe Media Encoder for professional results
- Create interactive controls and use cue points in your video
- Optimize video for accessibility and use Adobe® Soundbooth® for video transcription
- Use ActionScript in your projects for more innovative animations
Richard Harrington is a certified instructor for Adobe, Apple, and Avid, and an expert in motion graphic design and digital video. He is a regular contributor to Creative Cow, ProVideo Coalition, and numerous industry blogs and magazines. He also owns the visual communications company, RHED Pixel (www.rhedpixel.com) in Washington, DC. Rich is a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals Instructor Dream Team, chairs conferences for the National Association of Broadcasters, and has written numerous titles including Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS4, Photoshop for Video, and Broadcast Graphics on the Spot.
Marcus Geduld is a freelance programmer who teaches programming, design, animation, compositing, and video editing in New York City. He is the author of Premiere Pro Editing Workshop and After Effects Expressions and is the co-author of After Effects On the Spot. Marcus speaks on technical and artistic topics at numerous conferences and is an Adobe Certified Expert, a Macromedia Certified Developer, and an Avid Certified Instructor. He is artistic director of Folding Chair Classical Theatre, a New-York based company which he runs with his wife, actress Lisa Blankenship.
Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, Fourth Edition
Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, Fourth Edition
Product Description
Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video is the definitive book on the subject for beginning filmmakers and students. The book clearly illustrates all of the steps involved in preproduction, production, postproduction, and distribution. Its unique two-fold approach looks at filmmaking from the perspectives of both producer and director, and explains how their separate energies must combine to create a successful short film or video, from script to final product. This guide offers extensive examples from award-winning shorts and includes insightful quotes from the filmmakers themselves describing the problems they encountered and how they solved them. The companion website contains useful forms and information on grants and financing sources, distributors, film and video festivals, film schools, internet sources for short works, and professional associations.
* Unique approach to filmmaking which looks at the process from the director’s and producer’s point of view–each chapter is subdivided into sections covering the producer’s and director’s POV
* Features case studies from award-winning short films that will inspire you to make your own
* A companion website contains useful forms, information on grants and financing sources, distributors, film and video festivals, film schools, internet sources for short works, and professional associations
Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video, Fourth Edition