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Good camera for SD Green Screening
now i know i flooded like 1/3 of this forum with a forum for HD Green screening. but my pc doesnt like 1920×1080 recordings it freezes. so what would be a good camera for Standard definition Green Screen Recording. Like would a Canon XL1 be good? or is there any recomendations that anyone can make?
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Most would say you’d be better off sourcing for key with BetaSP/DigBeta/DVCPro50 vs any of the 25 Mbps DV formats (DV, DVcam, DVCPro).
There are ways that 25 Mbps 4:1:1 footage can be keyed competently as the industry had a pretty long time period to perfect some tricks, but a 4:2:2 format is still easier to work with, no question.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,CPO, Digieffects
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any camera recomendations upon those stipulations?
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One suggestion: Rent a panasonic AJ-SDX900, and shoot DVCPro50.
Or rent a Sony DigiBeta package. Both will give you nice footage to work with.
My opinion– Unless you are shooting more than 30 days a year, you’re probably better off renting.-Jeff
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Before you rent anything, consider going to a green screen rental facility and have them light and shoot it for you, then just have them supply the footage on a hard drive.
You get the best lighting and experienced shooters.
It depends on your location of course, but Google “Green Screen Studio Rental” and you might be pleasantly surprised.
I have had good luck with green screen and HDV, so maybe updating your PC is a better choice?
Steven
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what would be a good recomendation for a PC. i priced out a MAC and the final price with software ended somewhere around 4-6k.
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PC specs change so often…
A few things to strive for:
Biggest display possible (highest res)
decent display card (NVIDIA happens to be my preference)
As much RAM as possible
As powerful a processor as you can afford.
It’s important to note that all the things that make a laptop better for video editing make it worse for battery life…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,CPO, Digieffects
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how about Software to edit the video with? on a PC
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I use Premiere Pro…I’ve been editing on a laptop (not exclusively) since Premiere 6.5.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,CPO, Digieffects
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when you state your using green screen and HDV i assume your stating High Def Video correct? with that what file format are you using? becuase with .MTS premiere doesnt recognize those yet…
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We did a lot of research and tests, and last December selected the JVC HD-250 (720P, 1080i 4:2:2) because it provided HD-SDI 4:2:2 output with an interchangeable lens. The setups let you get tack sharp images and great keys (we use Conduit in FCP).
Our next choice will be the new Sony XDCAM. You can’t beat the HD-SDI 4:2:2 from JVC or Sony for great keys. When we do field work in HDV the quality difference in the keys appears significant to us.
That said, I’ve seen multi-pass Keying do some remarkable keys. But for us, time is money, and the workflow was excellent with the JVC and the Sony is a real time saver. We’ve not tried any AVHC setups yet.
Karl Krummenacher
Co-Founder, Chief Creative Officer
Activated Marketing
http://www.activatedmarketing.com
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