Frederic Jones, Fremont, California

Published October, 1998 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

Copyright 1999, 400 pp.
Paper
ISBN 0-13-795600-2
$49.95

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Create, present and optimize digital video-step-by-step! It's time to make the move to digital video! Whether you're a video professional, experienced amateur, or student, Desktop Digital Video Production will help you leverage your skills in the revolutionary new world of digital video. Top digital video producer Frederic H. Jones walks you step-by-step through every element of digital video production, including: video acquisition, lighting and Chroma Key; sound acquisition and processing; project and data management; video and sound editing; basic and advanced effects; and assembling a final product. You'll find up-to-the-minute coverage of:

• Internet video delivery, including RealVideo streaming media and multicasting
• Top desktop video software, including Adobe AfterEffects, Photoshop and Premiere
• Making the most of audio.
• Choosing and using capture hardware, disk storage, CODECs and other DV products.

You get the entire book in Adobe Acrobat format, plus all this great multimedia learning trialware: spectacular 2D animation with Adobe AfterEffects 3.1, Adobe Photoshop 4.0 for image editing and Adobe Premiere 4.2 for nonlinear video editing. 3D animation with 3D Studio Max 2.5 and Character Studio 2 for animating characters. DeBabelizer Pro for automated graphics processing.





FREDERIC H. JONES, PH.D. is Chairman of Jones & Jones Multimedia, LLC, a multimedia producer and publisher with a string of major consumer CD-ROM and game titles, including Beyond Time (Dreamcatcher Interactive, Virgin & NEC), which contains 90 minutes of digital video. Previously, he founded Ebook, Inc., a seminal CD-ROM publishing company, and Eclat, Inc., an electronic publisher specializing in multimedia electronic catalogs. Fred Jones can be contacted via e-mail at jjones@JonesSquare.com.

Table of Contents.
About the Author.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1. Video Acquisition.
2. Lighting.
3. Chroma Key.
4. Sound.
5. Sound Editing.
6. Capture Hardware.
7. Project and Data Management.
8. Capturing to Disk.
9. Preparing to Edit.
10. Video Editing.
11. Trimming Clips.
12. Video Sound Editing.
13. Basic Effects.
14. Advanced Video Effects.
15. CODECS for Computer and CD-ROM.
16. The Final Product.
17. Internet Video.
18. Digital Versatile Disk (DVD).
Glossary.
Index.