The Filmmaker's Guide to Digital Imaging from Focal Press is a paperback book that covers the new equipment, techniques, and roles that need to be learned and mastered by today's cinematographers, digital imaging technicians (DITs), and post-production artists. Author and filmmaker Blain Brown covers both theory and practice, providing in-depth coverage of essential terminology, technology, and industry-wide production standards such as ASC-CDL and the ACES workflow. The book features full color illustrations and interviews with professional cinematographers and DITs working on Hollywood productions that equip you with the knowledge needed to work in today's motion picture industry, either as a cinematographer, DIT, digital loader, data manager, camera assistant, editor, or VFX artist.
- Digital sensors and cameras
- The structure of digital images
- Waveform monitors, vectorscopes, and test charts
- Using linear, gamma, and log encoded video files
- Exposure techniques for HD and Ultra HD
- Understanding digital color
- Codecs and file formats
- The DIT cart
- Downloading, ingesting, and managing video files
- Workflow from camera to DIT cart to post
- Using metadata and timecode
Sensors & Cameras
The Digital Image
Measurement
Linear, Gamma, Log
Exposure
Digital Color
Codecs & Formats
Image Control
The DIT Cart
Data Management
Workflow & ACES
Metadata & Timecode
Acknowledgements
Cinematography: Theory and Practice
Motion Picture and Video Lighting
The Filmmakers Pocket Reference