Understanding Digital Cinema

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The New Post Production Workflow: Today and Tomorrow

Leon Silverman

LaserPacific Media Corporation

To many, post production is mysteriously confusing; a black art performed in darkened rooms, which when executed with a high degree of art and skill, literally becomes unknowably transparent in service to the story. Though its importance to the filmmaking process is undeniable, the fashioning of disjointed bits of picture and sound into a finished work is often eschewed as a lesser and certainly lower-paid skill when compared to the highly visible and better-compensated writer, director, or cinematographer. Post production can often help make marginal work better and cement great work as a timeless masterpiece. It is interesting to note ...