Editing Digital Film: Integrating Final Cut Pro, Avid, and Media 100 - Softcover

Fowler, Jaime

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0240804708 ISBN 13: 9780240804705

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

At long last, film and video editors are using the same systems to edit their projects, and Editing Digital Film is the guide to show them how to do it. This concise reference provides video and film editors familiar with the Avid, Media 100, and Final Cut Pro systems with crucial information they will need to edit on all three of these systems. In addition to showing film editors and directors working on DV projects how to edit for this new format, this text also clarifies the NLE process to those familiar with traditional film editing.


With its focus on the essentials of integrating nonlinear editing with film, Editing Digital Film is an excellent resource for video editors wishing to edit films, and for film editors wishing to learn how films are integrated into nonlinear systems. With coverage the film cutting process, post production methods, telecine, matchback editing, HDTV, 24P, cutting DV, and all necessary tools to get the job done, this is the perfect guide for those interested in editing digital film.

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Review:

"Fowler takes you through every aspect of this process, explaining in fine detail all the paperwork, various prints of film and so forth that are involved in the process." - Charlie White, digitalvideoediting.com

"Along with these cogent explanations, the author offers useful descriptions of aspect ratios of film, the different types of film, and incredibly detailed discussions of edge numbers, key nubmers and lots of other film conventions." - Charlie White, digitalvideoediting.com

About the Author:

Jaime Fowler is the director and creator of Film CampTM (www.filmcamp.com), a controversial learning program where supervised student editors complete low-budget independent feature films. He has been a film and video editor for over 20 years. As a freelance editor, he edited trailers/promotionals for Warner Brothers, Tri-Star, and Lightstorm. He has completed documentaries for director James Cameron, including Under Pressure: The Making of the Abyss, The Making of T2, and edited several seasons of Jeopardy! for Merv Griffin/Sony. The editor for seven Emmy-winning television programs and one of the developers of Avid's Emmy-winning MulticamÔ, Jaime is a well-experienced editor who has served as an editing consultant for over 30 national sitcoms, several major motion pictures, and the Sundance Filmmakers Lab.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0240804708
• ISBN 13: 9780240804705
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204