ABSTRACT
In the days of yore, there was video for TV and 35mm film for feature films. Period. Those days are gone forever. Video is still used for TV, but now it’s HD. And for feature films, there is still film, but now there is a long list of video and digital capture options that are being used in movie production today, and more coming every year. There is even a new term for this—the data-centric workflow—which encapsulates the all-digital workflow from digital capture to disk to post-production to projection. In this chapter we will sort out the various digital media and how they relate to visual effects compositing for feature films.
