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Film, Video and Postproduction Books, eBooks, Tutorials and Videos

Focal Press publishes the best Film and Video books covering Directing, Editing, Producing, Scriptwriting, Postproduction, Visual Effects, Motion Graphics and much more. Our books are written by creative experts for creative people.

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Get advice from today's most respected film editors!

FilmCraft: Editing employs stunning stills and screenshots to show how leading editors created a scene with the filmmaker and explores the complex editor/director relationship. Get perspectives from editors who worked on There Will Be Blood; Good Will Hunting, Inception. and countless other groundbreaking movies.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Check out an awesome excerpt on Lee Smith, who edited Inception and The Dark Knight. The excerpt is here.

Mastering Film

MasteringFilm.com features free articles, videos and tutorials by Focal Press authors.

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Bestsellers

The Filmmaker's Eye

By Gustavo Mercado

This book shows aspiring filmmakers the rules of image composition--and how to break them--with beautiful, full-color examples and a sleek, elegant design.

DSLR Cinema

By Kurt Lancaster

A filmmaker's guide to crafting cinema-quality films with hybrid DSLR cameras!

The VES Handbook of Visual Effects

By Jeffrey A. Okun and Susan Zwerman

Wisdom from the best and the brightest in the industry, this visual effects bible belongs on the shelf of anyone working in or aspiring to work in VFX. The book covers techniques and solutions all VFX artists/producers/supervisors need to know, from preproduction, to digital character creation and compositing of both live-action and CG elements.