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BLUE screen blues
Hi, everyone!
This is probably an old question for you, but here goes. Last year I shot quite a bit of standard DV footage using a BLUE screen and I have painfully come to realize that Keylight probably would’ve liked green better. The big problem is the amount of terrible edge flicker occurring especially around peoples heads (the hair). Does anyone know any tips for how to at least reduce this flicker?Loneanimator
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I did use a “real” chroma key cloth, but it is a rather dark blue color, which has made it difficult to achieve clean edges when it comes to the hair on peoples heads. Keylight can’t detect an edge (or so it seems), making the edge around the hair flutter like a storm was passing through. Other than that, the edges are clean and good-looking. I realize I may be hoping for too much, using standard DV footage and a dark blue background…
Loneanimator
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Go check out the Basic Color Keying tutorial on VideoCoPilot.net:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/colorkey.phpIf worse comes to worse, you can always go in and do it by hand with a mask/s.
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Thanks! Yes; I’ve checked out pretty much every tutorial on the subject here and it’s been helpful. I still have to do a lot of masking -tedious, but it helps.
Loneanimator
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Isolate the head, create a junk matte. Duplicate the layer. Use keylight on one layer and linear color key on the other. I’ve found using combinations can sometimes give great results.
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