Two veterans detail the procedural, creative, and technical aspects of pre-production, production, and post-production in the growing field. They show how each stage of traditional filmmaking is being transformed by digital technology, among them visualization, scripting, breakdown, scheduling, and the film laboratory. They also discuss the film-to-digital-to-film process. Illustrated in black and white except for two pages of color plates. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. * Details the procedural, creative, and technical aspects of the entire production process within a digital filmmaking environment * Explains vital concepts including digitization, compression, and nonlinear editing and relates digital techniques to their traditional counterparts * Includes information on new topics including HDTV, DTV, 24p, and universal mastering Digital Filmmaking has been called the bible for professional filmmakers in the digital age. It details all of the procedural, creative, and technical aspects of pre-production, production, and post-production within a digital filmmaking environment. It examines the new digital methods and techniques that are redefining the filmmaking process, and how the evolution into digital filmmaking can be used to achieve greater creative flexibility as well as cost and time savings. Digital Filmmaking provides a clear overview of the traditional filmmaking process, then goes on to illuminate the ways in which new methods accomplish old tasks. It explains vital concepts, including digitization, compression, digital compositing, nonlinear editing, and on-set digital production and relates traditional film production and editing processes to those of digital techniques. In the Industry Viewpoints sections in each chapter various filmmakers discuss their use of digital techniques to enhance the creative process.