Digital Compositing for Film and Video 3rd Edition Book/DVD Package

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.

* Provides you with professionally-tried tricks, tips, and solutions to the complicated and difficult compositing issues that you face * New to this edition is a section on stereo compositing for 3D movies, a brand new chapter on CGI Compositing, 7 new QuickTime movies on the DVD, and more * DVD is packed with instructive before and after examples as well as excercise files that allow you to refine your own technique