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Getting rid of white background – video
Hi Everyone …
I saw the post “getting rid of white background” a few months ago, but that was for photos. I need to know about getting rid of a white background in video. And before I ask our art team to try the techniques mentioned in the existing post, I thought I’d ask my question separately.
I’m shooting a child on a hoppity-ball, bouncing across the screen in a white studio. In this case, the child has quite dark skin, and she isn’t wearing any white. She’s facing sideways, so even the whites of her eyes are not visible.
Question: is there any way to key-out the white (studio background) of this moving object?? In other words, in this particular case, can the white studio act as a blue/green screen?
The art folks work in Cs4 – but they have access to Cs5 over in the video department.
As always, I thank you so much!
-Lori
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4 Replies
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Lumakey or the Multiply Blending Mode (doesn’t create an alpha but does remove the whites – good idea to use Levels to push the White areas to full-on white) and Autotrace are good options.
Of course there is Rotobrush.
HTH
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Hi Dave! Nice chatting with you again!
I’m shooting tomorrow. Shooting on P2-HD (1020i). Any suggestions?
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Thank you Dave and Roland. I didn’t set up the shoot intending to chroma key. I just got one of those famous “day-before-the-shoot-brilliant-ideas!”
I’m going to ask the art folks to try your suggestion, Roland. If it just becomes a pain in the “body part of my choice” – I’ll bag it for Plan B.
Thanks guys!
-Lori
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Good Luck and Have FUN!
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