Firewire filmmaking (+CD ROM)

Create broadcast-quality movies with your FireWire-equipped digital video camera

• Comprehensive, hands-on guidebook for creating, editing, and presenting digital movies.
• Practical advice for selecting, installing, and working with FireWire-ready cameras.
• Accompanying CD-ROM includes how-to videos for equipment installation, QuickTime audio tutorials, and free trial software.

Digital technology and FireWire, Apple Computers high-speed connectivity standard, are revolutionizing the process of movie making. With todays tools, students and professionals alike can create high-quality digital footage, transfer it to their computers, and edit it for output over email or the Web. FireWire Filmmaking is a four-color guidebook covering the art and science of digital filmmaking. Experienced author and filmmaker Scott Smith begins with the basics, including controlling the camcorder and capturing video with FireWire. Readers will then learn how to shoot their own digital movies and how to archive them on a variety of formats including CD-ROM, DVD, and DAT. Software covered in the book includes Adobe Premiere, iMovie, EditDV, and Final Cut Pro. As digital filmmaking becomes the industry standard, multimedia professionals, videographers, educators, and students are in need of a solid foundation on todays technologies. With expert advice and guidance including shared techniques from eight successful digital filmmakers, FireWire Filmmaking shows how digital video cameras and FireWire technology are bringing moviemaking to the masses.

Based in Northern California, Scott Smith is an editor of RES: The Magazine of Digital Filmmaking, where he reports on emerging trends in digital video production. He is also a principal partner of Silver Planet Studio, which creates digital effects for feature films. He has contributed to Adobes Classroom in a Book series and is the author of Making iMovies (0-201-70489-7), April 2000, Peachpit Press.