Quick: Time for Filmmakers

345 Pages·2003·25.601 MB·English

by  Richard K. Ferncase (Auth.)

QuickTime for Filmmakers
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QuickTime for Filmmakers
Richard K. Ferncase
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“There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.”
—Will Rogers (1879–1935)
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Chapter 1 QuickTime: An Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The QuickTime Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Other QuickTime Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Chapter 2 From Grain to Pixels: Film, Video, and
QuickTime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Motion Picture Production for the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Interlaced and Progressive Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Targeting Your QuickTime Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Optimizing Your Movie in Preproduction, Production,
and Postproduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 3 The QuickTime Player and Plug-in . . . . . . . . 29
The QuickTime Controller Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
The QuickTime Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 4 Basic Editing with QuickTime Pro . . . . . . . . 39
Making Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Copy-and-Paste Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Saving a Movie as a Self-contained File . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Editing Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Resizing and Repositioning a QuickTime Track . . . . . . . . 44
Rearranging Video Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Using Masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Video Effects Using QuickTime’s Graphics Mode . . . . . . 49
Other Graphics Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Chapter 5 A Filmmaker’s Guide to Compression . . . . . 57
Compressing Time-based Video and Audio . . . . . . . . . . 58
The MPEG Codecs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
QuickTime Codecs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Compressing Your Movie with QuickTime Pro . . . . . . . . 62
Additional Codecs for QuickTime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Audio Codecs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Professional Compression with Discreet Cleaner . . . . . . 87
Preprocessing for Custom Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Kinoma for PDA Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108