A Production Handbook by Tashi Trieu
A handbook on digital intermediate finishing and visual effects workflows for independent film production — covering the path an image takes from acquisition through dailies, editorial, VFX, DI, and distribution.
📖 PDF downloads: divfx.tashitrieu.com 🚧 Wiki edition (in progress): divfx.tashitrieu.com/wiki/
| Edition | Format | Version |
|---|---|---|
| Wiki | Web, searchable, Markdown source | derived from v1.0.1 — in review, not formally published |
| English PDF | PDF, 21 MB | v1.0.1, Fall 2017 |
| 简体中文 PDF | PDF, 24 MB | v1.0.1, translation by Xiyu Fan |
The wiki is a port of the v1.0.1 PDF to Markdown, built with MkDocs and Material for MkDocs.
The port applied a copy-editing pass but left the technical content as it stood in 2017. Passages that are now out of date — or that were incorrect as written — carry an inline callout linking to Notes for v1.1, which catalogues them with sources. Nothing was silently rewritten.
| Path | Content |
|---|---|
/ |
The original PDF landing page — unchanged from v1.0.1 |
/wiki/ |
The wiki edition, in review. Not linked from the landing page and excluded via robots.txt until it is formally published. |
landing/ the published landing page (root of the site)
index.html original v1.0.1 page
assets/, icons/ vendored theme CSS/fonts and favicons
CNAME, robots.txt custom domain; keeps /wiki out of search results
docs/ wiki Markdown source, one file per chapter
figures/ figures rebuilt from the original .docx artwork
figures/svg/ vector chromaticity diagrams
drafts/ new v1.1 material, for review
scripts/ build and figure-generation helpers
mkdocs.yml navigation, theme, and Markdown extension config
.github/workflows/ assembles landing + wiki and deploys to gh-pages
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
# live-reload the wiki alone
.venv/bin/mkdocs serve
# or build the exact published layout (landing at /, wiki at /wiki)
./scripts/build-site.sh
python3 -m http.server 8899 --directory publishCorrections and additions are welcome — see Contributing. Every page has an edit link that opens its Markdown source directly on GitHub.
Questions, comments, and errata: divfx@tashitrieu.com
© 2016–2026 Tashi Trieu. This handbook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) — see LICENSE. You may share and adapt the material for any purpose, including commercially, provided you give appropriate credit and license your derivatives under the same terms.