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(More customer reviews)This book, MASTERING MULTICAMERA TECHNIQUES, is a thoroughly comprehensive look at cinematography and the digital editing process. This is NOT one of those cheesy how-to-lighting books that seems to be given away with every camera ever made. No! This is cameramen and camerawomen taking you within inches of performers, like Paul McCartney and Elton John, in a live concert setting. This is backstage where gaffers and technicians set up their equipment and do sound check while engineers in the editing room monitor multiple camera angles over David Letterman's studio soundstage. This is part text-book, part insider's information, part university course for interested persons who'd like to work behind the scenes in film, theatre, television or perhaps to have the practical information on creating her/his own production company.
This really is a phenomenal book.
It is essentially a marriage between two departments: the audio/visual and the digital editing departments. Everything that you need, think you need and things you probably wouldn't have thought about are discussed here.
Preproduction. The author, Mitch Jacobson, discusses topics ranging from organizing personnel, the kinds of recording equipment, archiving to post-production facilities and costs.
Production. Types of multi-camera productions, setting up in various venues, studios and stadiums. The logistics of setting up equipment. "On Shoot Day," he discusses the floor plans from what tools to use to power the equipment, the location of the crew, to the art of "camera matching." Beautiful photographs show how various camera angles are fed and synched to the editing room where we see how the production of the David Letterman show is carried out.
* Timecode and Synch Methods
* Computers and Editing Codecs
* Nonlinear Editing Software programs--Apple, Avid, Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas and Grass Valley's Edius. (Edius...didn't see that coming!)
* Preparing the Project For Editing.
* Grouping and Synching Angles.
* Cutting Techniques and Styles
* Cutting Music and editing with multiple performances
* Sitcoms and Comedy
* The Main Event
* Deliverables/ Conforming the Master Tape/ Reloading/ Color Correction
* Audio in Post-Production
* Lighting
* Case Studies, including the Paul McCartney event.
Most of the 17 Focal Press titles I own are either above average or excellent. A few are so well done that they necessitate purchase because you will find someone, whether yourself or someone who wants to get into the industry and you know that such a publication would be invaluable. So you buy it to support the author for a job well done and you, perhaps, pay-it-forward as a gift to a deserving individual or institution. If you feel this way, then along with Directing the Documentary, Fifth Edition, How to Make Animated Films: Tony White's Complete Masterclass on the Traditional Principals of Animation and The Complete Film Production Handbook, Fourth Edition ...
MASTERING MULTICAMERA TECHNIQUES should be at the top of your list.
Beyond 5 stars.
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Mastering MultiCamera Techniques: From Preproduction to Editing and DeliverablesFrom a basic two-camera interview to an elaborate 26 camera HD concert film, this comprehensive guide presents a platform-agnostic approach to the essential techniques required to set up and edit a multi-camera project. Actual case studies are used to examine specific usages of multi-camera editing and include a variety of genres including concerts, talk shows, reality programming, sit-coms, documentaries for television, event videography and feature films. Other features include:* Advanced multi-camera techniques and specialty work-flows are examined for tapeless & large scale productions with examples from network TV shows, corporate media projects, event videography, and feature films. * New techniques for 3D projects, 2k/4k media management and color correction are revealed. * Technical breakdowns analyze system requirements for monitoring, hard drives & RAIDs, RAM, codecs and computer platforms. * Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro and several other software programs are detailed.* Tables, charts, screen-grabs, photos, web-links, blogs, tech school lists and other resource tools for further study.* Unique interviews with the 'Masters of Multi-Cam' including EMMY and academy award-winning directors and editors who share their project notes and give insight to award-winning techniques. * Platform-agnostic techniques with a review and comparison of a available tools* Actual broadcast TV show & feature film projects are dissected to reveal a step-by-step approach to managing multi-camera programs* 'Insider' procedures are revealed for large-scale productions and upcoming 3D editing* DVD with an array of multi-cam footage allows you to practice your technique
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