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  • Shooting Greenscreen for a Black&White Video

    Posted by Chancler Haynes on March 16, 2010 at 12:51 am

    I’m not going for the Sin City effect completely, but I do want that kinda of crisp look with the blacks. I’ve only done green screen once, and I’m not sure if there’s a difference when shooting for Black & White. If I take out the saturation, wouldn’t that delete my chroma key green too?

    Michael Gissing replied 16 years, 5 months ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Michael Sacci

    March 16, 2010 at 1:06 am

    You need to shoot in color, then do your keying, then go to black and white.

  • Chancler Haynes

    March 16, 2010 at 1:22 am

    Okay, I see. So do you think I can make the Black & White colors really crisp (with lots of contrast) though the FCP color corrector? Or should I send my FCP timeline to the FCP Studio 2 program COLOR?

  • Rafael Amador

    March 16, 2010 at 1:50 am

    First concentrate your self in pulling a good key, then treat the picture as you need.
    rafael

    http://www.nagavideo.com

  • Arnie Schlissel

    March 16, 2010 at 2:02 am

    [Chancler Haynes] “So do you think I can make the Black & White colors really crisp (with lots of contrast) though the FCP color corrector?”

    If you shoot correctly, then yes. Shoot for the key, pull the key, you can then use that as a travel matte for whatever you want to do afterwards.

    Arnie
    Post production is not an afterthought!
    https://www.arniepix.com/

  • Michael Gissing

    March 16, 2010 at 2:26 am

    Using Color to grade will give you much better control over gamma curves so you have more scope to work black levels and details.

    If you are using Color, you should make your keys into quicktime files before sending to Color.

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