Nonlinear Editing: Storytelling, Aesthetics, & Craft
暫譯: 非線性剪輯：敘事、藝術美學與技藝

Chock full of provocative ideas, insights, resources, tools, and exercises, this book will serve as your virtual mentor inspiring you to making better decisions in the edit bay and in your career. Hone your instincts. Know where to cut ?and when not to cut. Boost your confidence in your aesthetic decisions so you can effectively collaborate in the brotherhood of filmmaking. Pursue your craft and perpetuate your career by learning how to work with clients, manage the chaos, and get still more business.

Editor, director, producer, or screenwriter ?whatever your venue ?take stock of the theories, precedents, processes, and politics that have shaped your voice and discover how the keystrokes of an NLE can articulate it. Gather your tools, plan your process, and listen to your collaborators, the camera, light, and actors. Learn how you can employ myth in storytelling, overcome story problems, and present your narrative with elegant transitions, color and composition, compositing, and sound.

Principles, techniques, resources, and inspiration, to suit any platform ?any NLE! Interviews with Tom Rolf, Mary Sweeney, and Elizabeth Rufenacht (among others) offer the wisdom of seasoned pros. The companion CD-ROM offers a treasure trove of valuable software, image files, tools, utilities, fonts, filters, and sounds. Useful bibliographies, checklists, and documents include editing guidelines, application tipsheets, bin examples, story structure questions, and job flow and budgeting spreadsheets.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introductions

Chapter 1 Gathering the Editor's Tools

PART I: "YOU"

PART II: "THE STUFF"

Chapter 2 Planning the Process

Chapter 3 Giving Respect Where Respect Is Due

Chapter 4 Gathering Around the Campfire

Chapter 5 Overcoming Story Problems

Chapter 6 Tripping on Transitions

Chapter 7 Color and Composition

Chapter 8 Compositing and the Editor

Chapter 9 Dynamic Sound

Chapter 10 How Do I Break In?

Chapter 11 Clients and Chaos

Chapter 12 Conclusions and Continuity

Chapter 13 Useful Lists

Chapter 14 What's on the CD?

Index