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Dear Ed, Do Ya Dig It?

Digital editing is a post-modern, table-top tornado

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Dear Ed, Do Ya Dig It?
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Rudraksh
Rudraksh
  • New digital tools for pre-visualising enable scenes to be completely conceived and put on videotape well before actual shooting. This is great news for action and dance choreographers who would like to compose new-age sequences, and for cinematographers who would like to save expensive studio time and experiment with lighting effects on the computer well in advance of the actual shoot.

  • Advances in scanning, recording, storage and retrieval of digital film footage now enable editors to plan a dizzying array of slick cuts on their edit machine, then render them at film resolution without any fuss. The earlier generation of hardware like Inferno was priced at Rs 4 crore a piece. Today, a comparable software like Fusion or Shake costs Rs 2 lakh and works on a regular PC or Mac.

  • Screenplay writers now have the freedom to unleash their creative side without fear of ridicule. Anything they dream up can be digitally created.

  • Sound engineers can line up hundreds of tracks of sound effects sourced from an amazing array of low-cost digital libraries, using software like Pro Tools or Sound Scape.

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  • Directors can create a new visual fabric for their story, limited only by their power to imagine and integrate.
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