Nonlinear: A Field Guide to Digital Film and Video Editing

, by RUBIN MICHAEL

Nonlinear: A Field Guide to Digital Film and Video Editing by RUBIN MICHAEL, 9780937404850

ISBN: 9780937404850 | 0937404853
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/1/2000

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Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition

xi

Preface to the First Edition

xiii

Introduction

xv

First Things

What is Linear Editing?

3

(8)

So What's Wrong with Linear Editing?

4

(1)

How Can Nonlinear Editing Help?

4

(1)

Is There Anything Wrong with Nonlinear Editing?

5

(6)

Buzzwords

11

(8)

Nonlinear

11

(1)

Real Time

12

(1)

Frame Accurate

13

(1)

Broadcast Quality

14

(2)

Random Access

16

(1)

Digital

17

(1)

Desktop

17

(2)

Background

19

(58)

Novice's Introduction to Production

21

(3)

The Film Story

24

(8)

The Video Story

32

(7)

The Ghost of RT-11

38

(1)

History and Moving Pictures

39

(2)

A Brief History of Electronic Editing

41

(36)

Fundamentals

77

(114)

Online and Offline

79

(4)

Timecode

83

(3)

Types of Timecode (VITC, LTC and Beyond)

86

(6)

The EDL

92

(6)

The Evolution of the EDL

95

(3)

Film Edge Numbers

98

(4)

Keykode®

99

(3)

Telecine and 3:2 Pulldown

102

(6)

Cutting Film using Videotape

108

(10)

Preparation for Telecine

113

(5)

Telecine Logs

118

(2)

Component and Composite Video

120

(10)

Component/Composite Video Format Table

128

(1)

Videotape Quality

129

(1)

Color Space, Gamuts and the Kitchen Sink

130

(6)

Cabling

136

(9)

Cable Connectors

138

(3)

Balanced and Unbalanced Audio

141

(2)

FireWire®

143

(2)

The Digital World

145

(6)

Digital Video

151

(5)

Compression

156

(11)

MPEG Profile/Level Table

162

(1)

Compression Made Simple

163

(2)

Color Sampling and 4:2:2

165

(2)

RAID Technology

167

(2)

Digital Media Characteristics

169

(2)

Bandwidth

171

(4)

Video Compression, Bandwidth Table

174

(1)

Pixels

175

(2)

Aspect Ratio Basics

177

(3)

Light and Color

180

(7)

Typography

187

(4)

Editing Primitives

191

(74)

What is an Editing Primitive?

193

(1)

Editing Time

194

(2)

Editing Flowcharts

196

(6)

Computers

202

(5)

File System Organization

207

(4)

Nomenclature (Reels, scenes, takes)

211

(5)

Primitives of Editing

216

(15)

3- and 4-Point Edits

231

(1)

Synchronization

232

(1)

Effects

233

(4)

Editing Ergonomics

237

(4)

Monitors and Windows

241

(3)

Timelines

244

(7)

Fundamental Edits

251

(2)

Digitizing and Capturing

253

(4)

Videotape Assemblies

257

(3)

Printouts

260

(5)

Distribution

265

(50)

A Brief Review of Broadcasting

267

(10)

The Economics of Revolution

277

(3)

Why Shows Cut Film (Standards Coversion and HDTV)

280

(3)

Brief History of HDTV

283

(4)

Video on the Web

287

(14)

DVD

301

(8)

Video-to-Film Transfers

309

(3)

Electronic Cinema

312

(3)

Systems

315

(36)

Types of Editing Systems

317

(4)

Turnkey Systems

321

(3)

System Interface Historical Overview

324

(25)

The Best System

349

(2)

The Real World

351

(24)

Practical Editing Methods

353

(6)

Deconstructing Production

359

(1)

Pricing

360

(2)

Telecine Trouble

362

(2)

Color Bars and Monitor Adjustment

364

(2)

Demo Reels

366

(5)

Tape Formatting

370

(1)

Editor's Bag of Tricks

371

(4)

Theory

375

(23)

Horizontal and Vertical Nonlinearity

377

(11)

Interview with the Author

388

(4)

Appendices

Film Footages

392

(1)

Binary Counting

393

(2)

First Decade of Nonlinear Cinema

395

(3)

Acronyms and Abbreviations

398

(6)

Index

404

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