Digital Compositing for Film and Video, w. DVD-ROM - Wright, Steve
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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…mehr

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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.
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
new material that reveals the add-mix composite, light wrap, slot gags, and how to defeat banding problems
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Autorenporträt
Steve Wright is a 20 year visual effects veteran with 70 broadcast television commercials and over 60 feature films credits. He actually started doing computer graphics when he was developing video games at Atari in Silicon Valley, then moved to 3D animation at Robert Abel and Associates in Hollywood. Then as a partner in a visual effects studio in Hollywood for seven years he produced 3D animation and high end compositing, first for commercials then for feature films. Steve then joined Kodak's Cinesite as a senior compositor and became the 2D technical director where he also supported Cinesite's founding digital intermediate operation. Since early 2005 Steve has been a freelance visual effects guru teaching, training, writing, and speaking about digital compositing both domestically and internationally. His film credits include Traffic, U-571, Air Force One, Coneheads, Thirteen Ghosts, Ali, Solaris, Ray, and many, many more. If you would like to know more about Steve Wright you can visit his website at www.swdfx.com.