Books for CS 4480  Digital Video Special Effects

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Required:

• Visual Special Effects Toolkit in C++
  by T. Wittenburg, 1997 ISBN: 0471132209.
  Addresses hand-segmentation, basic chromakeying, and provides code to help with compositing. Author is humble, but really goes further than most in giving advice to tool-makers.
      Available at Amazon for $43, and possibly at the GATech bookstore*.

• Choose one of these two, depending on which product you like better for doing your editing (and possibly plugin-writing):
• Adobe After Effects 4.0: Classroom in a Book, 1999 [Paperback, ISBN: 0201658917 ] ($36-45)
• Should be available at Amazon.com*
• Adobe Premiere 5.0: Classroom in a Book, MacMillan Computer Pub, 1998 [Paperback,  ISBN: 1568304676 ] ($36-45)
• Should be available at Amazon.com*
• B. de Leeuw, Digital Cinematography, Ap Professional, 1997 [Paperback, ISBN: 0122088751] ($32-40).
• Should be available at Amazon.com*
• R. Shamms Mortier, After Effects 4 In Depth, The  Coriolis Group, 1999 [Paperback, ISBN: 1576103102] ($40-50).
• Should be available at Amazon.com*

Other things required:

• 2 60minute VHS tapes.
• 1 60minute mini-DV tape.
• 2 Once-write CD ROM Discs.

updated: updated Dec 1999, brostow@cc.gatech.edu