movinglmages07 Weekly Resources

Week 2: Jan 18-24 Camera Operation

From Lenses to Optical Instruments
http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/lens/lens.htm
History and theory on the physics in optics.

Intro to Mac Operating System + Interface Tutorials

• Mac OSX Intro Tour - Apple
  
  
• Mac OSX Work Basics - Apple
  
  
• Mac OSX Basic Step-by-Step (pdf)
  
  
• Mac OSX Basic Step-by-Step 2 (pdf)
  
  
• Mac Refresher Overview (pdf)

Continuity Editing

Editing - Film Analysis (Yale)
http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/htmfiles/editing.htm
Study material from Yale University - techniques and examples on Continuity Editing.

Grammars of Editing
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~lhanson/grammar.htm
Techniques and examples on Continuity Editing.

Final Cut Pro Editing

Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4 - pdfs:

Settings for Final Cut Pro4 (pdf)

Final Cut Pro4 Interface Basics (pdf)

Editing Workflow with Final Cut Pro4 (pdf)

Editing Tutorial for Final Cut Pro4 (pdf)

Ken Stone's Final Cut Pro http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_homepage_index.html
Tips, techniques, and examples on different versions of Final Cut Pro.

Wikipedia Editing Techniques http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_editing#Editing_techniques

Production Planning

Creativity Techniques
http://www.mycoted.com/creativity/techniques/index.php

Video Production Planning Primer
http://at.unh.edu/video/production.html

The Business of Filmmaking
http://www.skillset.org/film/business/article_3666_1.asp

Film History

Film History
http://www.questia.com/popularSearches/film_history.jsp
Lists of URLs for websites on film history, film genres, and other related resources.

Film History by Decade
http://www.filmsite.org/filmh.html

Montage Editing

Editing Review - Continuity versus Montage

Soviet montage theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_montage_theory

Methods of montage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_editing#Methods_of_montage

Montage Theory and Editing
http://www.main-vision.com/richard/montage.shtml

Techniques and definitions of Montage Editing
http://www.answers.com/topic/intellectual-montage

Final Cut Pro Suite

Basics of Final Cut
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/multimedia/tutorials/finalcut

Advanced Final Cut
http://safari5.bvdep.com/0321256085/pref01#X2ludGVybmFsX1RvYz94bWxpZD0wMzIxMjU2MDg1L3BhcnQwMQ=

Tips and Tricks of Final Cut
http://finalcutpro.digitalmedianet.com/articles/listarticle.jsp?type=techniques-469-5-20=/

Advanced FCP Editing Techniques (pdf)

Lighting Tips and Techniques for Digital Video
http://www.cely.com/tips.html

Lighting in Photography [still very relevant for video]
http://www.tpub.com/content/photography/14209/
Covers theories, applications, equipments, and techniques of lighting in photography. Also addresses lighting in film and video production.

Lighting Is All About Chiaroscuro
http://www.film-and-video.com/broadcastvideoexamples-Chiaroscuro.html

Film & Video Lighting for Low-Budgets
http://www.exposure.co.uk/eejit/light/

Lighting Class
http://www.videolightingclass.com/tips/index.htm

Lighting Tips (for video) - Eyecon Video Productions
http://www.eyeconvideo.com/tips/lighting_tips.asp

Audio editing in FinalCutPro4 (pdf)

Film Sound Theory
http://filmsound.org/
A collection of online articles written by people in the movie industry.

Nine Components of Sound
http://www.filmsound.org/articles/ninecomponents/9components.htm

BBC Online Training on  Microphones
http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourse.asp?ID=2508&cat=2772

BBC Online Training on Recording
http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourse.asp?ID=5514&cat=2772

Web Video and Audio articles
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/index.asp?st=42197&rl=1

Avant-garde Cinema

German Expressionism and Fritz Lang's Metropolis
http://wmbc.umbc.edu/~mark/artwork/art323/paper2.html

Expressionism - the Cinema of Unrest
http://www.subcin.com/expressionism.html

Surrealism - the Cinema of Shock
http://www.subcin.com/surrealism.html

Avant-Garde (Experimental) Films
http://www.miracosta.cc.ca.us/home/gfloren/F-avant.htm

Adobe AfterEffects

Lynda's Hands-On-Training with AfterEffects 6 Basics:
Chapter 2 on Interface (pdf)
For others go to: http://www.lynda.com/edu-media/educators.asp (AFX6 bottom of page)

Great tutorials on basic Animation, Masks, etc
(scroll past add for free online tutorials with downloadable media)
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials.html

After Effects in Production: A Companion for Creating Motion Graphics
use your SFU student ID to login
http://ollie.lib.sfu.ca/cgi-bin/validate/books24x7.cgi?isbn=1578200776 use with this book:

Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects Volume 1: The Essentials, 2nd Edition
use your SFU student ID to login
http://library.books24x7.com/book/id_2883/toc.asp

After Effects on the Spot: Time-Saving Tips & Shortcuts From the Pros
use your SFU student ID to login
http://library.books24x7.com/book/id_7852/toc.asp

Animated Typography:
http://studio.adobe.com/us/tips/tip.jsp?p=1&id=100384&xml=ae65tttype
http://www.digitalmediatraining.com/products/ae6/

Adobe After Effects 7.0 Motion Graphics and Special Effects:
DV Module 21(pdf)

Advanced 3D animation in AfterEffects:
http://www.creativecow.net/show.php?forumid=1&page=/articles/gerard_rick/AEWeekly1/index.html (video)

Film Analysis Essays

How to Cite Media
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/mla.html

more Adobe AfterEffects

a 3D compositing tutorial video here is pretty good:
http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=1&page=
http://www.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/3dcompositing/index.html

Morphing In After Effects - http://www.creativecow.net/show.php?forumid=1&page=/articles/zwar_chris/morph/index.html

Procedural Matte Creation - http://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/onneweer_barend/chromashoot/../keyingtut/index.html

http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page= http://www.creativecow.net/articles/script_gen/articletypesort/tutorial_adobeaftereffectsthebasics_script.html

http://creativecalf.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_view_posts.cgi?forumid=2

http://www.adobe.com/motiondesign/MDC_Tutorials.html?u%5FsLang=en&u%5FnTextSize=14&u%5FsFontType=sans

http://www.editorsguild.com/AfterEffects.html

Tons of links to many more - http://www.stevengotz.com/ae.htm

More on Compression issues and audio or video:
DV Compression Primer (pdf)

iDVD and DVD Studio Pro

A DVD Primer: DVD - VIDEO BASICS

Apple's online resources:

      - tutorial for iDVD
      - resources for DVD Studio Pro + Overview and Planning
      - DVD Studio Pro User Manual (pdf)

iDVD - Introduction to Making DVDs (pdf)

iDVD Basic Training (pdf)

iDVD - Before You Even Think About Burning a DVD (pdf)

iDVD - Getting Your Stuff into iDVD (pdf)

iDVD - Working with Menus and Buttons (pdf)

iDVD - Adding Audio (pdf)

DVD Creation troubleshooting articles:

DVD Nightmare #1 MPEG From Hell (pdf)
DVD Nightmare #2 Zombie Audio (pdf)
DVD Nightmare #3 Bits, Bytes, and Bites (pdf)
DVD Nightmare #4 Menu Madness (pdf)
DVD Nightmare #5 Twisted Aspect (pdf)
DVD Nightmare #6 Disc Killers (pdf)
DVD Nightmare #7 Dawn of the DVD-9 (pdf)
DVD Nightmare #8 Drowning in Discs (pdf)
DVD Nightmare #9 Packaging Gremlins (pdf)
DVD Nightmare #10 The Invisible Disc (pdf)

Streaming Video info + Tutorials:

WebMonkey's Streaming Video for the Masses - excellent and will help with compression, encoding + DVD concerns

RealMedia's Broadcasting Streaming Media Production Introduction (real player file)

Streaming Media - Codecs (pdf)

Streaming vs Downloading (pdf)

Calculating Streaming Media Storage and Transfer (doc)

Streaming Media presents Webcasting Articles (pdf)