Digital Compositing in Depth |
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D. Kelly
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Pages: 650 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1576104311
Pub: Coriolis Group,U.S.
Pub date: 2000-04
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 767798
Editorial Review:
There is often far more going on in any given frame of a contemporary movie or commercial than meets the eye. In Digital Compositing in Depth, the techniques of both visible and invisible effects are explored and explained.
Obvious visual effects are pervasive in today's broadcast media; less obvious effects like colour correction, image stabilisation, object removal and virtual backgrounds are more common than most observers might guess.
And that's exactly the point of Digital Compositing--to educate those not involved in the business or to broaden the knowledge base of those involved with exposure to other software tools. The book starts and ends with discussions on the business of compositing: what it is, the responsibility of the compositor compared to other team members, including an excellent chapter on the how small and large studios are run and how to launch your own studio.
The meat of the book contains a comprehensive set of tutorials varying in complexity, from "Basic Compositing" through "Advanced Compositing" and "Output." They cover both video and film resolution projects. The tutorials use a variety of software, most of which can be found in demo form on one of the two accompanying CDs.
Final compositing is often the last and crucial step in the development cycle of a project but it usually gets the least amount of limelight. Digital Compositing in Depth is a valuable eye-opener, and a worthwhile book for anyone involved in video or film post-production. --Mike Caputo, amazon.com
Reader Reviews:
Good overall, but a slightly misleading title (12/13 people found this helpful)
If you are intersted in learning how to do various special effects (such as blue or green screen and digital Matting), this is a very good book to turn to. It goes over the basic principles behind doing all of those efects on the computer. However, all of the books in depth examples and tutorials are based on one specific program, Eyeon Software's Digital Fusion. So if you have access to that software, you will get far more out of the book than if you don't.
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