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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.
Canon GL2 MiniDV Digital Camcorder w/20x Optical Zoom
Canon GL2 MiniDV Digital Camcorder w/20x Optical Zoom
- 20x optical zoom lens (digital zoom to 100x) and image stabilizer
- 2.5-inch LCD with 270-degree rotation
- Save to MiniDV tape or MMC/SD card (8 MB SD card included)
- Record for up to 65 minutes on one battery charge
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With the GL2, Canon has created a camcorder with a wealth of features, each selected to elevate further the standard against which other camcorders are judged. The GL2 is a must-have for the person looking for the very best video-making experience. The GL2′s excellence begins with its outstanding Fluorite lens and includes pro-level picture adjustment features found only in Canon’s top-of-the-line, trend-setting XL1S camcorder.Amazon.com Product Description
The Canon GL2 (like its predecessor, the GL1, and its big brother, the XL1) is helping to blur the line between consumer and professional video equipment. This camcorder borrows most of those cameras’ professional-quality components and puts them into a more compact, affordable camera. Though it’s small enough to carry around and doesn’t cost much more than a top-of-the-line consumer camcorder, the GL2 produces such high-quality results that it could be used as a broadcast video camera.
The 3 CCD System
The GL2 maximizes the capability of the DV format by using a 3 CCD (charge-coupled device) system with a separate CCD for each primary color (red, green, blue). A beam-splitting prism separates light passing through the lens into individual color components and each is sent to its own CCD. Compared to a single CCD, the 3 CCD system achieves outstanding detail with highly accurate color reproduction suitable for the demands of high-end video production – wide dynamic range, low color noise, high-contrast detail, natural color resolution and low-aliasing. The 3 CCD system also makes advanced Pixel Shift (for increased image quality) and Low Light Recording (for increased flexibility) possible.
Professional L-Series Fluorite Lens
Canon has satisfied the demands of experienced image makers for years through the power, design and quality of 35mm and broadcast TV lenses. Canon’s Professional L-Series lenses utilize Fluorite, a material which provides outstanding resolution, contrast, and color reproduction- especially in lightweight, high-magnification lenses. Incorporated into the lens on the GL2, Fluorite delivers the ultimate in clarity and image quality. The Fluorite element inside the lens defeats color aberration — the effect when the components of light stray from one another within a lens, causing a reduction in sharpness, contrast and color. The Fluorite lens precisely controls components of light providing an excellent balance of these three critical ingredients of picture quality. This is unobtainable with conventional optical glass.
To further improve image detail, Canon has intentionally shifted the green CCD (which contains 60 percent of the picture detail) half a pixel horizontally and vertically. This shift allows more accurate interpolation, resulting in an image that Canon claims rivals those from cameras with 410,000-pixel CCDs. Each pixel is 72 square microns, which is about 1.5 times the size as those in competing camcorders. This increased size increases light sensitivity, allowing you to shoot in low-light situations. All this results in outstanding detail, with highly accurate color reproduction suitable for the demands of high-end video production. The GL2 also incorporates a 20x Professional L-Series fluorite optical zoom lens, which is equivalent to 39.5-790mm, as well as a 100x digital zoom.
Audio
The GL2′s omni-directional microphone is designed to deliver realistic stereo sound. Using the GL2′s advanced accessory shoe expands your audio options. Audio can be recorded in 16-bit mode on two channels on one track. Alternatively, audio can be record in 12-bit mode, where the audio track is divided into two, and two channels of audio are recorded onto one track, with the other left over for audio dubbing.
Optical Image Stabilizer
Canon’s superb optical stabilization system corrects camera shake instantly so even hand held shots, at full telephoto, and shots taken from a moving car, are smooth and steady. And since it is optical, there is no loss of image quality inevitable with electronic image stabilizers. It perfectly complements the high picture quality of the DV format.
Digital Stills
You can turn your GL2 into a still camera by switching to 1.7-megapixel photo mode and capturing high-resolution still images onto the camcorder’s MultiMedia/Secure Digital card. (One 8 MB Secure Digital card is included with the GL2.) The full-frame images are free from time-lag blur. A six-blade circular iris, as found on Canon’s top-of-the-line XL1 and XL1S models, is used for professional exposure control, helping to deliver stunning video and still photos.
Inputs and Outputs
The GL2 comes with the standard DV IEEE 1394 port (also known as FireWire) for a super-fast, lossless connection to a PC or other DV machines. You can also connect to your PC via a USB connection to download still photos. The GL2 is designed to handle two types of analog input and output: using audio/video cables (composite) or S-video. Both connections are on the camera back.
More Features
- Three shooting modes: normal movie mode, digital photo mode, and the cinema-like frame movie mode.
- The Custom Key function lets you create and save your own custom settings so your common shooting modes can be readily duplicated.
- Digital effects are offered for a greater imaging variety, including fader, sepia, strobe motion, and black and white.
- With the Interval Timer function, you can record for a selected time with a selected interval–convenient for nature observations such as flowers or sunsets.
MiniDV Format
The Canon GL2 digital video camcorder uses the standard MiniDV cassette, producing the highest quality video possible from nonbroadcast equipment. The MiniDV format standard delivers more than 500 lines of horizontal resolution. And, because it records both video and audio as digital data, this information can be transferred–without any loss of picture or audio quality–to a computer for editing, then transferred back to DV tape, without a reduction in either picture or audio quality.
Goodman/Gloman Digital Filmmaking Bundle
Goodman/Gloman Digital Filmmaking Bundle
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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!
Developing Digital Short Films
Developing Digital Short Films
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The film market is shifting toward traditional desktop technology to create productions…digitally. Unlike traditional film production, though, digital films require producers to employ a different pre-production process. Developing Digital Short Films explores how unique character and set designs, bluescreen ideas, special effects, and simple 2D character animation techniques can be used as narrative devices for telling stories. Part One focuses on generating visual ideas that are ideal for digital production and creating a short film script. Part Two focuses on the visual pre-production of a short film and the issues that go through a filmmaker’s mind as they struggle with how best to present their stories; this includes topics like 101 camera shots, frame composition, developing a visual look and feel, color maps, and creating storyboards and animatics. Part Three explores the different production environments of DV, 2D and 3D, and how they shape the telling of stories based upon the technological strengths of each style. Developing Digital Short Films features a unique step-by-step preproduction process for making any kind of film with lists of brainstorming ideas to help you complete each step.
No-Budget Digital Filmmaking : How to Create Professional Looking Video for Little or No Cash
No-Budget Digital Filmmaking : How to Create Professional Looking Video for Little or No Cash
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This “must have” tool for aspiring video producers shows how every step of the production process can be cost-minimized, yet still result in a sterling, professional quality product. The author, an independent film producer, also explains how final distribution – via the web, DVD, the festival circuit, or public exhibition – can be handled in an equally inexpensive manner. It includes every major type of video. It thoroughly covers preproduction – the key to shoestring shooting. It talks about how to find free locations, equipment, and actors. It shows creating great lighting for nothing and using digital video, DVD, and streaming media.
No-Budget Digital Filmmaking : How to Create Professional Looking Video for Little or No Cash
Digital Filmmaking, Second Edition: The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures
Digital Filmmaking, Second Edition: The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures
- ISBN13: 9780240804279
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Digital Filmmaking has been called the bible for professional filmmakers in the digital age. It details all of the procedural, creative, and technical aspects of pre-production, production, and post-production within a digital filmmaking environment. It examines the new digital methods and techniques that are redefining the filmmaking process, and how the evolution into digital filmmaking can be used to achieve greater creative flexibility as well as cost and time savings. The second edition includes updates and new information, including four new chapters that examine key topics like digital television and high definition television,making films using digital video, 24 P and universal mastering, and digital film projection.
Digital Filmmaking provides a clear overview of the traditional filmmaking process, then goes on to illuminate the ways in which new methods can accomplish old tasks. It explains vital concepts, including digitization, compression, digital compositing, nonlinear editing, and on-set digital production and relates traditional film production and editing processes to those of digital techniques. Various filmmakers discuss their use of digital techniques to enhance the creative process in the “Industry Viewpoints” sections in each chapter .
Digital Filmmaking, Second Edition: The Changing Art and Craft of Making Motion Pictures
Digital Filmmaking for Teens
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You don’t have to invest a small fortune, own expensive gear, and employ an army of technicians to create a movie. Today’s high-tech tools will fit in your backpack and don’t require the financial backing of a major movie studio, making this the first generation in the history of moviemaking that doesn’t have to beg for big bucks to put its stories on the screen. “Digital Filmmaking for Teens” emphasizes Hollywood-style moviemaking, the way the pros do it. You’ll learn how to tell your story on a budget, using tips from industry veterans. Not sure where to start? No problem. You’ll cover each step-from developing your idea and writing a script to planning for production, shooting, and editing. “Digital Filmmaking for Teens” includes an amazing DVD packed with advice, instructional videos, and examples.
Digital Filmmaking 101: An Essential Guide to Producing Low-Budget Movies
Digital Filmmaking 101: An Essential Guide to Producing Low-Budget Movies
- ISBN13: 9781932907230
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Digital Filmmaking 101: An Essential Guide to Producing Low-Budget Movies