[Mister X]

Originally posted by Feynman
Yeah, well, Wiley is one of my favorite editor. They usually produce excellent and concise textbooks.

But I never squirm about the price of a good book. I've lost enough time with badly written textbooks to know... I like Chapters for that. I pick up a dozen books on the subject and browse them extensively before ...


...taking note of the title and ordering them from amazon.ca . :-)

When I like a book, the price is no object. Saving a few bucks and loosing umpteen number of hours to a badly written textbook is not my idea of fun.

BTW, one of the best book of all about cinematography is

Cinematography by K. Malkiewicz. It's small but very good. Made for cinema, they do not talk at all about video, only film production, but still, the basic principles of lighting and everything else are there. And it's inexpensive. It's old but still considered the bible of film making 101.

It takes time to obtain it so I ordered it used and got it in ten days for about 20 bucks.

BTW, I have Première 6.5 . Is there a big difference between 6.5 and Pro ?

There is some difference... mainly the pro version comes with Main Concept's mpeg encoder bundled (a light version) and there is real-time preview rendering for most transitions and effects. Of the 2 I don't like the Main Concept encoder I prefer Canopus Procoder. But the realtime preview is a must have.

Those are the 2 main differences but there are a few smaller differences and improvements also. The titler is improved, etc. Rendering speed for dv output has increased.

Now that I think of it the preview might have been in 6.5 but it is basically a worthwhile upgrade for the other stuff.