Digital Filmmaking Handbook,9781584500179

Digital Filmmaking Handbook

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ISBN13: 9781584500179
ISBN10: 1584500174
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-06-01
Publisher(s): Charles River Media
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Summary

Learn how to merge traditional filmmaking skills with new technologies to create any type of digital video production. Discover how to use desktop computers to create productions that can be distributed on the Web, home video, broadcast television, projected video, or film. Softcover.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction
1(12)
What Kind of Equipment Do I Need?
4(1)
What Is Digital Video?
4(2)
Why Digital Video?
6(4)
What this Book Covers
10(1)
Pop Quiz
10(3)
Planning Your Project
13(20)
Before You Start
14(1)
Writing for DV
14(8)
Scheduling Your Project
22(4)
Budgeting
26(2)
Paying as You Go
28(4)
Budgeting Can Be Fun
32(1)
Previsualization
33(16)
Storyboarding
34(14)
Summary
48(1)
Choosing a Videotape Format
49(26)
Delivery Is Everything
51(1)
Video Basics
52(8)
Video Format Features
60(8)
Videotape Formats
68(5)
So Which One Do I Choose?
73(1)
Or, Maybe It Doesn't Matter
73(2)
Building a Workstation
75(24)
First Things First
76(1)
Choosing a Platform
76(2)
Choosing a Video Interface
78(6)
Choosing a Computer
84(9)
Formatting Your Drives
93(2)
Managing Your RAM
95(2)
Conclusion
97(2)
Choosing a Camera
99(28)
Evaluating Image Quality
100(8)
Camera Features
108(12)
Accessorizing
120(2)
Cameras Compared
122(5)
Non-Linear Editing Software
127(28)
You Say On-Line, I Say Off-Line
128(2)
What's in an NLE
130(9)
Getting Media into Your Project
139(6)
Audio Tools
145(3)
The Final Product
148(2)
NLEs Compared
150(4)
Summary
154(1)
Lighting and Art Directing
155(28)
Lighting Basics
156(1)
Types of Light
157(7)
The Art of Lighting
164(3)
Tutorial
167(5)
Interior Lighting
172(2)
Exterior Lighting
174(2)
Special Lighting Situations
176(3)
Art Directing
179(3)
Rolling
182(1)
Shooting Digital Video
183(34)
Shooting Digital Video
184(6)
The Tool of the Trade--The Camera
190(18)
During the Shoot
208(6)
Special Shooting Situations
214(1)
Quiet on the Set, Please
215(2)
Production Sound
217(28)
What You Want to Record
218(1)
Microphones
219(15)
Setting Up
234(9)
Recording Your Sound
243(1)
A Good Approach
244(1)
Editing Hardware
245(18)
Hardware and Peripherals
246(4)
Digital Video Decks
250(6)
Digital Audio Equipment
256(1)
Video Monitors
257(3)
Hardware Connectors
260(1)
Summary
261(2)
Preparing to Edit
263(28)
Worst Case Scenario
264(1)
How to Organize Your Project
265(1)
Logging
266(1)
Tutorial: Setting Your Video Levels
267(7)
Tutorial: Logging and Capturing
274(3)
Tips for Better Logging
277(2)
Capturing On-Line Quality Video
279(5)
Troubleshooting
284(3)
Advanced Media Management
287(2)
Summary
289(2)
Editing
291(20)
The Invisible Art
292(1)
Building Blocks
292(15)
Fine-Cutting
307(2)
Locking Picture
309(2)
Sound Editing
311(26)
Sounding Off
312(2)
Setting Up
314(3)
Dedicated Sound Editing Apps
317(5)
Editing Sound
322(5)
Equalizing Is Your Friend
327(4)
Choosing Sound Effects
331(1)
Music
332(3)
Fix It in the Mix?
335(2)
Color Correction
337(20)
To Compress, Or Not to Compress
338(5)
Color Correction
343(2)
Tutorial: Correcting White Balance
345(9)
Put a Clamp on It
354(2)
Correcting Color for Film
356(1)
Titling and Simple Compositing
357(52)
Titles and Simple Graphics
358(6)
Compositing 101
364(3)
Tutorial: Creating a Luminance Key
367(5)
Tutorial: Using a Chroma Key
372(13)
Tutorial Creating a Title in Photoshop
385(6)
Tutorial: Variable Transparency
391(3)
Moving Pictures
394(2)
Tutorial: Creating a Credit Roll
396(4)
Tutorial: Adding Camera Shake
400(6)
Summary
406(3)
Rotoscoping and More Compositing
409(54)
Rotoscoping
410(4)
Tutorial: Rotoscoping a Simple Image
414(7)
Tutorial: Painting an Alpha Channel by Hand
421(8)
Tutorial: Color Correcting Part of an Image
429(7)
Tutorial: Exploding Heads
436(14)
Special Effects
450(3)
Making Your Video Look Like Film
453(2)
Tutorial: Creating Film Grain
455(6)
Rendering
461(2)
Outputs
463(42)
Mastering Your Outputs
464(1)
Videotape Masters
465(13)
The Final Audio Mix
478(4)
Outputting to CD-ROM
482(10)
Outputting for the Web
492(3)
DVD Authoring
495(2)
Getting Your 35mm Film Release Print
497(7)
Conclusion
504(1)
Appendix A Calibrating Your NTSC Monitors 505(4)
Setting Up
506(3)
Appendix B About the CD-ROM 509(4)
Glossary 513(28)
Index 541

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