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The object on the cover of Digital Video Hacks is a film clapboard, also known as a film slate. This small board is usually black and white, and contains sections for displaying information such as the title of the film, the director, the editor, scene/take numbers, and time information. At the top of this board sits the clapper, a hinged section that is clapped together at the start of each take to provide a sound cue that can be used during the editing process.

Philip Dangler was the production editor and proofreader for Digital Video Hacks. Nancy Reinhardt was the copyeditor. Marlowe Shaeffer and Darren Kelly provided quality control. Julie Hawks wrote the index.

Mike Kohnke designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is from Corbis; the layout was produced with Adobe InDesign CS using Adobe’s Helvetica Neue and ITC Garamond fonts.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Joe Wizda to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Helvetica Neue Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont’s TheSans ...

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