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recording Green Screen footage?
Hey everyone
I’m about to begin my first greenscreen shoot, and was wondering if anyone knows a link to a “Tips and tricks” for shooting green screen footage.
My big question is this: I’m recording a band in front of a green screen. At the beginning of the keyed footage I want to put a white background, that turns into a black background. Do I have to think about lighting the band members in a special way, or what can I do so it looks “natural” with the changing backgrounds…
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Your two most critical factors are the camera you are using and the lighting.
If you are shooting with inadequate color resolution, like, say DV, you will never be able to pull a decent key without lots of post production tweaking. Get a better camera, chepaer in the long run.Lighting your green screen to create a solid sheet of color is critical to making your chromakeying easy and painless. You need lots of lights, lots of distance between the band the cyc, and a good lighting director.
Google green screen, chromakey, and blue screen. You will find many hours of helpful reading. pay attention to the horror stories because veryone makes the same stupid mistakes and they don’t have to.
It’s far too complicated to talk about in these little posties. Try kenstone.net for help on keying DV and search the cow for the same sets of terms.
bogiesan
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Hey man
thanx for the answer… I already checked a lot of stuff out, and I’m still looking around.
I’m shooting it on a Progressive Panasonic DV-cam…
anyway, thanks
– Rune
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