ASPECT RATIO
Making the Picture Fit the TV Screen
Making Words Fit the TV Screen
The Chalkboard Dilemma
SAFE TITLE AREA
Slides
16:9 Aspect Ratio
BOLDNESS AND SIMPLICITY
GRAY SCALE
Color Compatibility
The Color Wheel
The Rules of Color
TYPOGRAPHY
Manual Lettering and Computer Printouts.
Anti-aliasing
Title Placement and Background
Font Selection
Letter Edging and Color
Title Spacing and Legibility
Title Clustering
Alpha Channel
In-Camera Titler
MAKING GRAPHICS COME ALIVE
Visual Tricks
DISPLAYING GRAPHICS
Mounting Graphics
Masking Tape, Double-Faced Tape, and Photographic Tape.
Mask.
LIGHTING GRAPHICS
FOCUSING ON GRAPHICS
SET DESIGN
Selecting a Set Designer
Working With The Set Designer
Billing
Special Considerations for Television
Altered Perspective
Set Building
Film-to-Tape Transfer
Do-it-Yourself Methods.
Commercial Film-to-Tape Transfer Services.
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
Types of Computer Graphics
2-D Paint.
3-D Modeling.
Video Capture Cards
Digital Still Cameras vs Camcorders
DIGITAL GRAPHICS
Graphic File Formats
Image Size for Computer and TV Graphics
Paint and Editing Programs, Codecs, and Video Boards.
Compression
Run length encoding.
JPEG.
MPEG.
Encoding and Decoding.
Shooting For The Squeeze
Legal Colors
Alpha Channel
Rotoscoping
3-D Graphics and Animation
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Mini Tutorial on Building and Editing an Electronic Graphics Image in 2-D and 3-D
Seamlessly Removing Something From Your Image.
Filters and Effects
File Format Compatibility
Playing back an animation
SHOOTING VIDEO SO IT LOOKS LIKE FILM
SHOOTING VIDEO THAT WILL BECOME FILM
Electronic Graphics is Still an Art
VIRTUAL SETS
SCAN CONVERTERS

 

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