Editorial Reviews
Product Description:This handbook about the popular world of digital nonlinear editing is addressed to both professionals and students, as well as interested bystanders. It covers virtually everything anyone would want to know about the new world of electronic post production, in non-technical language and without the geeky mumbo jumbo that characterizes most professional texts. Profusely illustrated.
While the book is useful for anyone investigating or wishing to purchase a digital editing system, it is not meant to be a buyer's guide. It is designed not to go out of date every time a new product is introduced or software release comes out. It is about essentials. Fundamentals. Concepts. And language.
With over 15,000 copies in print, Nonlinear is the best selling textbook on nonlinear editing in the world today. It is widely used in colleges, universities, and professional organizations.
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
Timeless, and highly recommended, November 1, 1999
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I was very fortunate to stumble onto this book in its earliest incarnations, back when Hollywood was just beginning its massive shift away from decades of traditional ways of doing film & video post-production. At the time, I'd realized that Nonlinear was the next big thing, but welcomed some expert help in riding that paradigm shift to a very different way of working.
Yet in a technical subject that might have been daunting to explain, Rubin comes across as a very down-to-earth and unpretentious friend who knows precisely what he's talking about, but is secure enough in that knowledge (having started out working for George Lucas in the dawn of the modern nonlinear era) that he doesn't have to resort to a bunch of techno-babble to get his wisdom across.
He covers all the essentials of film/video post-production, both traditional and nonlinear; puts it in a valuable perspective with forty years of video editing history (anyone remember the CMX 600?); and wraps it up with an essay on "horizontal" vs. "vertical" nonlinearity that makes the future of the technology entirely clear as well. And the big paradigm shift? It's as plain as "the folded paper method", p.183-193 (itself worth the price of admission). As he states, the book is about Fundamentals -- those that are universal and constant no matter how many vendors rise & fall, and regardless of how many software patches they spew out in the process.
I guess you could say that Michael Rubin has been my "mentor". Many other pros working in the field today would probably say the same thing.
*snicker*, June 4, 1998
By Michael Rubin (Santa Cruz)
Mr.Camerron's comments speak well for his book. Interested parties should investigate all points of view, even those which appear... less than worthwhile. Nonlinear 3 continues to be adopted at film schools and corporate video groups in larger and larger numbers. Seek as much information as you can find.
Terrible...just terrible., April 20, 1998
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Nothing but the best from the king of highbrow, techno babble. If you really want to foray into the world of nonlinear editing stay away from this book. Read mine...my name is Dwight Camerron and you'll find my book by May 1998, Nonlinear Editing is 'da Bomb.
