Digital Compositing for Film and Video

"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 blue screen 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. The second edition contains many important additions: printed in full color with over 400 color photos and illustrations; companion DVD with 3.7 gigabytes of test images, including hard to get HiDef video and feature film scans; new section on working with HiDef video; new section on digital intermediate, the feature film finishing process of today; more Adobe Photoshop blending modes and procedures; and, new material that reveals the add-mix composite, light wrap, slot gags, and how to defeat banding problems.

ISBN 024080760X   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780240807607 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1211 Publisher Elsevier Science & Technology   Published in Oxford Imprint Focal Press   Series title Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780240804552 Publication date 08 May 2006   Height (mm) 235 Library of Congress TR   Width (mm) 191 DEWEY 778.534   Spine width (mm) 28 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 472

Ch. 1		Introduction		1
Ch. 2		Pulling mattes		13
Ch. 3		Refining mattes		69
Ch. 4		Despill		83
Ch. 5		The composite		101
Ch. 6		Blend operations		133
Ch. 7		Lighting		151
Ch. 8		Camera		197
Ch. 9		Action		223
Ch. 10		Gamma		265
Ch. 11		Video		283
Ch. 12		Film		325
Ch. 13		Log vs. linear		353
Ch. 14		Log images		385

"From start to finish, Digital Compositing for Film and Video gives you the much needed knowledge to be competitive in the business...If it's a process involved in compositing it is in this masterpiece of a book." - Filmmaking Central "In Digital Compositing for Film and Video, his 400-page-plus bible for all things compositing, Wright painstakingly describes every step of pulling mattes, tracking pixels, correcting green-screen pill, working with film and video-you name it." -Ben Rock, Back Stage, Sept. 2006 "Anyone whose business it is to know how to do compositing, motion graphics, green - or blue-screen work, or even high-end titles must have this book in his or her collection."-Ben Rock, Back Stage, Sept. 2006 "Whilst some areas are specifically aimed at specialist compositors, it is nonetheless a very good book to have many areas of technical knowledge explained in a colourful and practical way. A vital book in the current technological age we now live and work in." British Cinematographer, Sept. 06

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