Contents -- Introduction -- How to Download the Example Files -- PART I: ENTERING THE WORLD OF VIDEO -- Chapter 1: The Timeline and Importing Video -- Preparing for Video Import -- Importing Videos to Hard Disk -- A First Look at Importing Video -- A Tutorial on Trimming Video Footage -- Working with Audio in Photoshop -- An Experiment with Losing Placed Files -- Chapter 2: Working the Timeline Palette: Creating Videos from Still Images -- Adobe Bridge and Color-Synching Animations -- Timelapse Animations -- Creating the Ken Burns Effect -- Filtering a Video, Post-Production -- Chapter 3: Reconciling Different Media in a Composition -- An Outline for the Composition -- Broadcast Standards and Photoshop Compositions -- PART II: VIDEO SWEETENING -- Chapter 4: Cuts, Wipes, and Fades -- Hands-On with the Animation Palette's Menu -- Scripting -- Building Transitions -- Editing Transitions into a Composition -- Two More Transitions to Complete Your Collection -- Chapter 5: Video Color and Tone Adjustments -- Correcting Color Within a Composite Video -- Colorizing a Moving Video Area -- Keeping Your Color Adjustments Broadcast Legal -- A Special Effect Using Color Correction -- Chapter 6: Video Restoration -- Video Transfer Hardware and Software -- Firing Up A-D Convertor Filtering -- Retouching Motion Pictures -- Enhancing Focus -- Polishing the Presentation and Exporting -- Chapter 7: Titling and Animating Text -- Measuring Screen Safety -- Creating Subtitles -- Creating a Crawl -- Text Warp and Animated Text -- Animating Text Manually -- Creating Typewriter Text -- 3D Animated Text (with a Helper Application) -- PART III: ANIMATION AND ROTOSCOPING -- Chapter 8: Basic Animation and Rotoscoping -- Rotoscoping a Walk Cycle -- Fleshing Out Your Animation -- Cartoon Physics -- Creating Cycles from Non-Cycling Videos -- Mixing Animation with Photography.

Chapter 9: Advanced Rotoscoping and Wire Removal -- Rotoscoping Away Unwanted Scene Areas -- Using Live Action as a Rotoscope -- An Exercise in Fantasy Composition -- Saving Time by Retouching Rendered Videos -- Wire Removal -- PART IV: 3D AND 3D ANIMATION -- Chapter 10: 3D and CS3: An Introduction -- Understanding the 3D Tools -- Hands-On 3D: Experiment 1 -- Retexturing a 3D Model -- Google Earth and 3D Architecture -- Texture Replacements and Basic 3D Animation -- Chapter 11: Basic CGI Compositing into Video -- Everything's Coming Up Lilies -- An Example of Simple 3D Character Animation -- Chapter 12: Creating 3D Scene Props -- Working with Vanishing Point -- Putting a Neon Sign in a Video -- Putting a 3D Prop Into a Scene -- Combining Animation with Models and Videos -- PART V: SFX AND COMPOSITING TECHNIQUES -- Chapter 13: Creating Fun, Simple, Effective fx -- Adding a Cross-Star Sparkle to a Clip -- Simulating an Earthquake -- Adventures in Split-Screen -- Warping Time -- Reversing Time -- Chapter 14: Advanced Compositing: Green Screening -- Lighting and Why We Use Green for Screening -- Cutting Your First Key -- Adding Polish to a Production -- Green Suiting on the Cheap -- Chapter 15: Compositing and Motion Matching -- Adding Elements to a Camera Pan -- Complex Motion Matching -- Creating a 38-Second Situation Comedy -- PART VI: OUTPUT -- Chapter 16: Codecs, DVD Authoring, and Saving for the Web -- Different Recipients Require Different File Formats -- Examining the Structure of Digital Video -- Publishing for the Web: QuickTime Codecs -- Après-Codec: Setting Other Parameters for Publishing -- E-Mail Attachments and Cross-Platform Issues -- Publishing for the Web -- Exporting for Collaboration -- Codecs for Authoring -- Archiving Your Video Work -- Fade to Black -- Roll Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K.

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