The Skull

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Christian Darkin

Mystery

A C Black Publishers Ltd

Film-making is no longer the preserve of the rich and famous. Thanks to camcorders, digital cameras and some seriously sophisticated software packages, Hollywood has been brought to your kitchen - giving everyone the opportunity to produce and release their own piece of digital cinema. Premiere 6.0 is the digital film makers best friend. With the ability to export to web and RealMedia player, Premiere offers enormous control over the look, feel and sound of your film. Allowing high-end web designers and filmmakers to incorporate webmarkers, integrate with Photoshop, Illustrator and other image preparation tools... and generally play about with video footage, Premiere is all you need to produce slick film. This book will assume you are new to Premiere. Taking you through the basics, in a step-by-step manner, Revolutionary Premiere 6.0 Digital Video Editing lets you learn from experienced professionals who use Premiere every day. Each chapter forms a stand-alone tutorial, yet by the end of the book you will find that all combine to form a complete case study. Throughout, Premiere is used within the context of a professional setting, always showing how the skills learned may be deployed in the real world of digital film-making.

Revolutionary Premiere 6

Computers & Technology

Corné van Dooren

Alan McCann

Mark Schaeffer

Joe, Allen

Programming

friends of ED

The final cut is only the beginning. The 5.5 release of Adobe's comprehensive compositing and visual effects tool offers an unparalleled range of special effects options to the digital video maker. With new 3D tools, brand new effects and increased productivity and workflow management, After Effects 5.5 is the last word in creating stunning visual experiences for video, film and the web. Revolutionary After Effects 5.5 brings you everything that this version has to offer—both Standard Version and Production Bundle—and will teach you everything you need to have sheer digital beauty, on your desktop, in the palm of your hand. Whatever your level, this book delivers the core skills, advanced techniques and real-world case studies to send your digital video projects sky-high. Revolutionary After Effects 5.5 covers all you need to know, before you need to know it, backing up every piece of theory with solid practical tutorials. What this book covers: <ul>
<li>Setting up your hardware and importing material from a wide range of sources </li> <li>Compositing and building layers </li> <li>Animation and effects </li> <li>Rendering your composite for digital video or the web </li> <li>Three full case studies: Compositing a CGI animation, creating a web site banner, and enhancing a music video—putting it all into practice</li> </ul> What you’ll learnWho this book is for Revolutionary After Effects 5.5 will radically improve your output if you are: 
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<li>A digital editor looking to advance your skills and polish your productions</li> <li>A digital artist wishing to enhance your skillset and quickly master a complex package</li> </ul>

Revolutionary After Effects 5.5 Enhancing Digital Video

Logan, Paul

Smith, Darren

Peter Reynolds

George Kingsnorth

Soltz, Ned

Welland, Mark

So you've a copy of After Effects and an idea of what this professional motion graphics and effects tool can do...but what can you really do with After Effects? How far can you push it? What are the best effects that you can create? What are the essential skills and techniques that you need to really make your creations stand out? After Effects Most Wanted answers these questions in a refreshing and practical way. Looking at a wide variety of projects the original artists tell you why, and exactly how they created their masterpieces. 
 The authors, all professionals who use After Effects to make a living, share with you the secrets of their successes and extend beyond that to give you the reasons why they did things the way that they did. 
 More so than that, the accompanying CD has their creations available at your fingertips and the simple, step-by-step instructions in the book show you how they created these pieces. 
 The projects covered are diverse, from a television commercial for McDonald's and Coca-Cola by Peter Reynolds, to a thought provoking work by renowned and controversial artist Simon Tsyko, a work featured by Adobe in their motion gallery. 
 Other authors include: Joost Korngold of Renascent and Chris James Hewitt, whose Relokation Ne is the a featured work on the BD4D (By Designers For Designers) web site, Christian Darkin, a digital video journalist and author, and Mark Towse, who offers two pieces, one for TV, one for the cinema. 
 Without long, redundant discussions of tools and application packages, After Effects Most Wanted is a book that delivers the techniques, skills, and effects that will let you bring your creations to life.. 
 "Thanks to After Effects, a good small post-production house can do everything as well as the top Hollywood studio – if you have the relevant skills! There is no longer a technology barrier, working in DV. This means that we are going for absolute top level quality, and let's face it – if it looks good enough, the sky's the limit!" Mark Towse

After Effects Most Wanted

Friends of ED

Chris James Hewitt

Joost Korngold

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