Originally published by MicroSearch in 1990, this book is out of print.  When originally published, the book included a support disk in AmigaDOS format, bound into the volume.  The disk, updated slightly over the years, is no longer available.

Contents of Support Disk

The Amiga Desktop Video Workbook
by Jay Gross

BOOK TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Amiga Desktop Video Workbook
by Jay Gross

SECTION I: Becoming a Desktop Videographer	3
Having fun, making money, getting your foot through the door
Chapter 1 - A new kind of communication	5
Chapter 2 - What you can do with video	7
SECTION II: Overview of desktop video	9
First things first, defining some terms
Chapter 3 - Buzzzzzzzzzzz	11
Video
The big picture
It slices and dices. . .
Video in industry
Home users
Opportunities in Video
Chapter 4 - The Amiga in Video Production	19
The Opportunities
Chapter 5 - Why the Amiga, and not other computers?	23
Interchange File Format
Multitasking, an Amiga Exclusive
It's a (Bit)Plane
Summary
SECTION III: Some basic concepts to build on	29
Getting to know the Amiga, getting acquainted with video
Chapter 6 -The kitchen sync and Resolution Nine	31
Video lives for sync.
It's not a magic trick.
Genlockery
Other things a genlock can't/doesn't do
Speaking Video-ese
Steps of video production
Chapter 7 - Resolution Nine. . .	35
Chapter 8 - Frame Accuracy	37
Frame accurate isn't "single-frame"
Chapter 9 - Video formats and what they mean	39
Section IV: Amiga: the video studio in a box	43
Everything you need in one place
Chapter 10 - The cook's tour	45
The budgets
The scripting department
Stop for props
Chapter 11 - Touring the animation section	51
Model-ing
A tracer's delight
Roll titles
Sounds of music
Soundstage that doesn't sound
Sound dubbing
Mixing it up
Sugar is sweet, and sound is too.
Fait accompli
Chapter 12 - The video studio in a box	61
First the script
Writing a script
Chapter 13 - Step one: getting the client hooked	67
The Amiga's artistic talents abound
Transitions, on the cheap
More special effects
Chapter 14 - Post production	73
Insert editing
Decisions, decisions
Timing your tape
Audio
Take twenty-six. . .
Next stop, animation
Tracing those rays
Summary
SECTION V: - How-To do it	79
Getting down to the nitty gritty. . .
Chapter 15 - Videographers do it with their cameras	81
More on anti-aliasing
Fooling the eye
Keeping colors legal
Chapter 16 - Editing	87
Outside editing services
Assembling
Insert editing
The A & B (see?) of video
A toast to the Toaster's software

SECTION VI: Just for animators	93
Making things go bump in the night or day
Chapter 17 - Animators do it with their Amigas	95
The classical approach
First, the Number Two
First, the classics
Painting animations
CanDo
Ready-to-wear
Standards aplenty	100
Back again
The sprite animators
Vectors, vectors
Zoëtrope
Tween the sheets
Three D's and tracing rays
When it isn't raytraced
A darker shade of pail
Amiga raytracing
Sculpt
Palettes, your video pals
"True" color	108
Large palette Amiga stuff
Show and tell
An hour's heuristics saves a day's rays
How much tracing time is too much?
The three D's
Standards, standards
Hardware animation: it's a Live!
The animation manipulators	115
Making your own Anims
Speaking the language
The screen's flipped
Animation limited
Rotoscoping
Single framing
Bringing it home
Recording a frame
Specialties of the house
Trickery indeed
Amiga f/x [with many subsections]	120

SECTION VII: Hardware tools	129
Things you need and don't need to do desktop video
Chapter 18 - Things you might already have	131
Who needs "broadcast" quality?
What does a genlock do?
ARexx
"Broadcast quality"
Adjusting your monitor
Don't touch that dial!
Television instruments
Allowing for NTSC limits in graphics creation
Getting your finished videos past a broadcast engineer
Chapter 19 - Video amplifiers, switchers, mixers, etc.	141
Video doodads
Connecting it all up
Chapter 20 - Lighting for video	147
Basic video lighting equipment
Chapter 21 - Color considerations in video lighting	151
White, it isn't.  Ask any camera.
Mix and never match
Filtering
Shades of gray
Coping with light of the wrong color
Go for quantity
Chapter 22 - Audio recording and mixing	157
What makes sound good or bad?
What you need for audio for video
Music, mæstro!
Internal Amiga music
MIDI software
What software does what
Automatic music
What to look for
Digitized sounds
Synthia Professional
Timing sound to video
SECTION VIII: Software specifics	167
Tools, tips and techniques for getting the job done
Chapter 23 - At the beginning - the script	169
One from Column One
A new horizon in scripting
How to do it
Problems to expect
Other benefits
Chapter 24 - Next the animations	173
Loop-de-loops
Speaking of sounds
Timing
Problems?  What problems?
By the book
Pure Fanta-sy
Tracing rays (again)
Down to earth
Sculpt 3 or 4 D
The impulse to animate
More vectors
The Director
AmigaVision
CanDo
Painting animation
The learning curve
Chapter 25 - Digitizing and scanning for video
Scanning
Digitizing
Digitizing on the move
To digitize or to scan. . .
Tips for good scans/digitizations
Image processing
Converting among display modes
Chapter 26 - Rendering directly to video boards
Toasting video
Non-toasters
The new IFF standard
Chapter 27 - More software tools and how to use them
Chapter 28 - Software to control the hardware
Time code reading and generating
Photon Video Transport Controller
Chapter 29 - Titling
Amiga titling software
Fonts
Readability
Colorfonts
Summary

SECTION IX: Starting a video business of your own
Taking the first big steps
Chapter 30 - First they do it for fun. . .
First, to burst some bubbles
Money matters. . .  boy does it!
Borrowing money
The business plan
Location, trademarks, names
Answering machines
Registering your business
Incorporation, partnerships, proprietorships
Insuring against disaster
Chapter 31 - The mechanics of doing business
Counting the beans
maintenance costs for your equipment.
business development, advertising, and promotion expense.
payroll expense.
total overhead.
gross profit and return on investment.
Government reports
FICA
FUTA
SUTA
Withholding
State forms
Sales tax forms
Paying up
W-4
W-2
1099
Getting licensed
Where to get the forms
Chapter 32 - Getting down to business
Advertising and promotion
Money, receivables, and billing
Cash flow
Keeping the cash flow a-flowing
Further billing mechanics
SECTION X: Managing your video business - part 2
More things you need to know
Chapter 33 - Taking the next big steps
Showing off the demo
Advertising agencies
Chapter 34 - Managing clients, people, talent
Communication
Client participation
Signing off
Other skills
Managing talent
Dealing with client's relatives as talent
Chapter 35 - Totaling up the costs of desktop video
Serious genlocking
Next stop animation
The turnkey system approach
Farming things out
The bottom line
Own or rent
Pricing your work
Legal issues
Using copyrighted material
Model releases
Location releases
Artwork and writing clearances
"Work for hire"
Market restriction
Licenses and permits
Copyrighting your videos
Chapter 36 - Summary
What's on the horizon?
Moving to HDTV
Appendix A: Contents of Disk included
Appendix B: RESOURCES
Appendix C: TCRG compatibility guide
Appendix D: Example business plan
Appendix E: Example Director script
Appendix F: Mired color temperature conversion chart
Appendix G: Lensmounts for video cameras
Appendix H: ARexx: What is it?
Appendix I: BIBLIOGRAPHY
GLOSSARY
INDEX

You can reach Jay Gross at the following addresses, electronic and otherwise:

email:  j a y @ f o t o a r t i s t a . c o m
US Mail:  P.O. Box 1696, Lexington, SC 29071-1696
www.fotoartista.com/amigadget

The Amiga Desktop Video Workbook is an AmiGadget publication formerly licensed to MicroSearch, Inc. of Houston.

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