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Digital Compositing for Film and Video [Paperback]

Steve Wright (Author)
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Publication Date: 4 May 2010 | ISBN-10: 024081309X | ISBN-13: 978-0240813097 | Edition: 3
This practical, hands-on guide addresses the problems and difficult choices that professional compositors face on a daily basis. You are presented with tips, techniques, and solutions for dealing with badly shot elements, color artifacts, mismatched lighting and other commonly faced compositing obstacles. Practical, in-depth lessons are featured for bluescreen matte extraction, despill operations, compositing operations, as well as color-corrections.

The book is presented entirely in an application-agnostic manner, allowing you to apply lessons learned to your compositing regardless of the software application you are using. The DVD contains before and after examples as well as exercise files for you to refine your own techniques on.

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  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Focal Press; 3 edition (4 May 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 024081309X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0240813097
  • Product Dimensions: 18.9 x 3 x 25.2 cm
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Steve Wright is a visual effects compositing veteran with 70 broadcast television commercials and over 60 feature films credits. He's developed video games at Atari, done 3D animations for Robert Abel and Associates, and was senior compositor and 2D technical director at Kodak's Cinesite. Steve is now a freelance, digital-compositing guru, who teaches, trains, writes, and develops on-line training programs.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Comprehensive and Thorough Look At Special Effects Editing. DIGITAL COMPOSITING FOR FILM AND VIDEO, 3rd Ed.: A Critical Revie 13 Oct 2010
By Andre Lawrence TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
* What is Digital Compositing, anyway?
** A Look at the Third Edition.
*** Highlights.
**** Conclusion.

* In short, "Digital Compositing," is from author Steve Wright's standpoint, "to take images from a variety of different sources and combine them in such a way that they appear to have been shot at the same time, under the same lighting conditions with the same camera."

Although the book, in scope, pertains to the subject of mixing and editing of various footages, the weight of this book is squarely focused on the color correction aspect of digital and film footage in Special Effects editing.

** The 3rd Ed. is a 500-page "Classroom-In-A-Book." The book is both in theory and in practice and is accompanied by a 4 GB DVD-ROM with movie, jpg and film scan files (.dpx). It is stated that this book is for intermediate to advance (or experienced) students, but I'd venture to say that this book is solely for geared for those seeking to enter into to this highly specialized aspect of film editing or to those who want a more advanced text to draw upon, because it will take some time to absorb the high quality and specialized layout of this thesis. This book is, by no means, a joke. There is an education to be obtained from within these pages.

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Ch. 1 Introduction. Stereo- / Multi-pass CGI-/ 3D Compositing. Photoshop/ Flowgraphs.
Ch. 2 Pullin Mattes. Luma-Key/ Chroma-Key/ Bump. Extracting/Scaling/Refining & Leveling.
Ch. 3 Refining Mattes. The Monitor/ Garbage and Filtering.
Ch. 4 Despill. The Despill Operation/ Artifacts/ Algorithms. Refining and Unspill Operations.
Ch. 5 The Composite. The Processed Foreground Method. The Add-Mix Composite.
Ch. 6 CGI Compositing. Pre-/Unpremultiply.... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars great value. 5 Jan 2011
By Francesco Rossi
Format:Paperback
This is a sequel of Steve Wright books, updated with new standards.
I had the previous and moved to this edition to keep me up to date. The book is easy to read and to understand.
If you are a beginner in compositing, this is a very recommended book for you, but I also recommend it to professional compositor as it can add to your workflow some good tips & tricks.
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5.0 out of 5 stars product cam promptly and as expected good quality - good work! 19 Dec 2011
By Rickmac
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