ABSTRACT

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

chapter 1|11 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|56 pages

Pulling Mattes

chapter 3|14 pages

Refining Mattes

chapter 4|18 pages

Despill

chapter 5|31 pages

The Composite

chapter 6|17 pages

Blend Operations

chapter 7|45 pages

Lighting

chapter 8|25 pages

Camera

chapter 9|42 pages

Action

chapter 10|18 pages

Gamma

chapter 11|41 pages

Video

chapter 12|27 pages

Film

chapter 13|31 pages

Log vs. Linear

chapter 14|26 pages

Log Images