Fix It In Post:
Solutions for Postproduction Problems
Jack James
ISBN: 978-0-240-81124-6
This book provides an array of concise solutions to the wide variety of problems that are faced by postproduction artists in the post process. With an application-agnostic approach, it gives proven, step-by-step methods to solving the most frequently encountered postproduction problems. Also included is access to a free, password-protected website that features application-specific resolutions to the problems presented, with fixes for working in Apple's Final Cut Studio suite, Avid's Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, as well as other applications... [more]
Avid Editing: A Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Users, 4th
Edition
Sam Kauffmann
ISBN: 978-0-240-81080-5
Avid Editing is a comprehensive
guide covering Avid Xpress Pro, XPress Pro HD, and Xpress DV. Due
to the similarity of Avid's interface across product lines, it
is also relevant for Media Composer and other systems. Suitable
for beginning editors or experienced editors new to the Avid, the
book provides step-by-step instructions for hundreds of editing
tasks in jargon-free terms. The chapters guide you through an editing
project, while the accompanying DVD provides narrative footage
to download for immediate, hands-on practice. The book can be read
and studied at home, or while sitting in front of an Avid, following
the book's step-by-step instructions... [more]
After Effects Apprentice, 2nd
Edition
Chris Meyer
Trish Meyer
ISBN: 978-0-240-81136-9
- Updated for After Effects CS4!
- 11 core lessons plus a fun final project
- 1st Edition sales over 19,000 units
- Full color presentation of engaging lessons that demonstrate real-world techniques
- Companion DVD features QuickTime movies and lesson media
- Learn to creatively edit and combine layers, animate eye-catching titles, replace a screen on a computer monitor, place a studio shot in anew environment, manipulate 3D space, and use effects to generate excitement or enhance the realism of a scene
- Easy to follow step-by-step instructions take you through each technique, including projects that encourage you to put your own creative vision to work.... [more]
The Focal Easy Guide to Final Cut Pro 6
Rick Young
ISBN: 978-0-240-81009-6
Software packages are complex. Software books don't need to be.
Simplify your life with The Focal Easy Guide
to Final Cut Pro! This concise, full-color book lives up to its name by paring down
the software to its essentials. You learn the key features and
essential workflow to get you up and running in no time.
With this book you can start cutting immediately, whatever you
edit, whatever the format. This is an ideal introduction whether
you are a professional moving over to Final Cut Pro from another
package or system, a new user, or just someone who wants to get
the best results from Final Cut Pro, fast!... [more]
Vegas Pro 8 Editing Workshop
Douglas Spotted Eagle
ISBN: 978-0-240-81046-1
Master the Vegas Pro 8 toolset, including its
industry-leading HD and audio capabilities. This comprehensive
guide delivers the nuts and bolts of the essential tasks, from
installing the application to outputting, together with practical
editing techniques and real-world examples for working more efficiently.
Packed with all the necessary materials, including video footage,
sequences, and detailed instructions, this book and DVD combo gives
you a working knowledge of Vegas Pro 8. Better expert advice simply
can’t be found... [more]
The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction
Steve Hullfish
ISBN: 978-0-240-80990-8
Provides direct access to the
skills, insights and techniques of some of the postproduction industry's
most prominent digital video colorists, delivering practical skills
to the postproduction pro seeking to improve their color grading
craft. The author interviews and observes 8 professional colorists
as they grade a series of real world video images, describing the
methods and techniques each artist uses to reach their finalized
image. These video images are included on a DVD that allows you
to work lockstep with each artist as they grade their images... [more]
Final Cut Studio On the Spot, 3rd Edition
Richard Harrington
Abba Shapiro
Robbie Carman
ISBN: 978-0-240-81007-2
Packed with more than 500 techniques, this book delivers what
you need to know—on the spot. It is suited to editors of
all experience levels, whether you are:
- Migrating from another NLE
- Upgrading to Final Cut Studio 2
- Seeking a handy reference to raise
your proficiency
No need to wade through tomes of documentation.
Final Cut Studio On the Spot presents immediate solutions in an
accessible format... [more]
Final Cut Pro Workflows: The Independent Studio Handbook
Jason Osder
Robbie Carman
ISBN: 978-0-240-81005-8
Today's digital production tools empower the small team to produce
multimedia projects that formerly required large teams. Orchestrating
a production requires more than proficiency with the postproduction
tools. Final Cut Pro Workflows: The Independent
Studio Handbook offers a cookbook of postproduction workflows that teams can follow
to deliver an array of products to their clients. It describes
appropriate postproduction workflows, team roles and responsibilities,
and required equipment for some of the most common media productions... [more]
The Filmmaker's Guide to Final Cut Pro Workflow
Dale Angell
ISBN: 978-0-240-80986-1
The Filmmaker’s Guide
to Final Cut Pro Workflow is the comprehensive roadmap to affordable
postproduction workflow using Final Cut Pro, Cinema Tools, and Pro
Tools. Illuminating workflow and the interrelationship of these software
applications, it also focuses on cost saving and efficiency, aiding
low-budget, independent moviemakers as well as students trying to
take their skills to the professional level.
Author Dale Angell offers a practical guide to complete film postproduction
workflow, describing low-cost workflow that can be used for 35mm
film, High Definition digital video, or DV/Red Camera... [more]
Motion Graphic Design and Fine Art Animation:
Principles and Practice
Jon Krasner
ISBN: 978-0-240-80989-2
Improve the aesthetic and communication qualities of your motion graphics.
Reach beyond technical craft skills with this multimedia examination
of the essential elements of the art, which includes:
Foundation: Realize the artistic expression of pioneering artists from film,
television, interactive media, and immersive environments as they combine the
principles of painting, traditional graphic design, and the dynamic visual language
of cinema.
Technique: Develop an understanding of motion literacy, kinetic images and type,
and the pictorial and sequential aspects of composition and choreography. Principles
are presented with contextual examples and suggested assignments to challenge
you artistically... [more]
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects: Essential and Advanced
Techniques, 4th Edition
Chris & Trish Meyer
ISBN: 978-0-240-81010-2
• 4TH Edition of the best-selling
After Effects book by renowned authors Trish and Chris Meyer updated
to cover After Effects CS3 • Two volumes combined into one comprehensive,
full-color guide of real-world production techniques
• A companion DVD packed with project files, bonus materials, and
nearly two hundred pages of additional content as PDF files
Create compelling motion graphics with real-world production techniques.
Learn how the program thinks as award winning artists Trish and
Chris Meyer share their workflow processes and techniques. This
new edition of 704 full-color pages is a comprehensive guide--from
essentials to advanced techniques--that is packed with professional-level
visual examples. The companion DVD is loaded with projects that
reinforce important skills you can apply to your work today, as
well as over 180 pages of additional content presented as PDF files... [more]
After Effects Apprentice
Chris & Trish Meyer
ISBN: 978-0-240-80938-0
The pedagogy of this book has been carefully designed to serve the academic market. The authors have surveyed an array of instructors in high schools, community colleges and universities. Academically oriented features include:
- A lesson-by-lesson progression from step-by-step instruction to ‘homework’ assignments that permit the students to explore their own expression of a technique
- Lessons that start with lower-size sources; subsequently expanding to full-size sources
- A professional perspective on what are the most important features an After Effects artist must learn to use the program effectively in the real world
... [more]
Flash + After Effects
Chris Jackson
ISBN: 978-0-240-81031-7
Combine two powerhouse applications to: • Add motion
graphics and visual effects • Fuse 3D depth into 2D animations
• Prepare Flash animations for broadcast • Save development time
Flash Designers — expand your multimedia horizons. Push
Flash to the next level in design with After Effects' robust toolset
to add supercharged visual effects and development efficiencies
to your Flash projects... [more]
CINEMA 4D: The Artist's Project Sourcebook, 2nd Edition
Anne Powers
ISBN: 978-0-240-80953-3
This artist's sourcebook engages
students with short, playful projects that demonstrate the essential
concepts and techniques without drowning in the technical complexities.
Readers master R10’s
improved workflow, scene management, enhanced animation timeline
and searchable object manager, as well as its MOCCA 3 system, MoGraph
, Bodypaint 3D, Advanced modeling tools, and its interface with
third-party applications including Z-Brush, and Adobe’s Creative
Suite... [more]
Compositing Visual Effects: Essentials for the Aspiring Artist
Steve
Wright
ISBN: 978-0-240-80963-2
Put the essential concepts and techniques of digital compositing to
work for you without the need of a single mathematical equation. Compositing
Visual Effects is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of film shots, figures,
illustrations and diagrams to help the visual reader gain a valuable
vocabulary and understanding of the full range of visual effects, in
which digital compositing plays a key role. Beginning with an inspirational
tour of the scope and magnitude of digital compositing you get a solid
overview of the kinds of digital effects routinely executed today. See
how CGI (Computer Generated Image) is composited with live action, how
set extensions are done, and what a match-move shot is... [more]
Digital Compositing for Film and Video, 2nd Edition
Steve Wright
ISBN: 978-0-240-80760-7
Digital Compositing for Film
and Video is a hands-on, how-to guide that addresses the
problems and difficult choices faced by the professional compositor
in real-life situations. This book presents you with tips, tricks
and techniques for dealing with the badly shot elements, color
artifacts, and mismatched lighting that bedevil compositors. Included
in this book is: in-depth, practical methods for bluescreen matte
extraction, despill operations, compositing operations, and color
correction—the "meat
and potatoes" of
all digital effects. Written in a completely software independent
style, it is totally applicable to any brand of compositing software... [more]
MoCap for Artists: Workflow and Techniques for Motion Capture
Midori
Kitagawa
Brian Windsor
ISBN: 978-0-240-81000-3
Make motion capture part of your graphics and effects
arsenal. This introduction to motion capture principles and techniques
delivers a working understanding of today?s state-of-the-art systems
and workflows without the arcane pseudocodes and equations. Learn
about the alternative systems, how they have evolved, and how they
are typically used, as well as tried-and-true workflows that you
can put to work for optimal effect. Demo files and tutorials provided
on the companion CD deliver first-hand experience with some of
the core processes... [more]
Houdini On the Spot: Power User Tips and Techniques
Craig Zerouni
ISBN: 978-0-240-80862-8
Packed with more than 350 techniques, this book delivers what
you need to know—on the spot. Its concise presentation of
professional techniques is suited to experienced artists whether
you are:
• Migrating from another visual effects application
• Upgrading to Houdini 9
• Seeking a handy reference to raise your proficiency with Houdini
Houdini On the Spot presents immediate solutions in an accessible
format. It clearly illustrates the essential methods that pros
use to get the job done efficiently and creatively. Screenshots
and step-by-step instructions show you how to:
• Navigate and manipulate the version 9 interface... [more]
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