Green screen with 5D mkiii anyone?

[Noah Kadner]

Doable but definitely get your lighting great. Paper is ok- not idea though. If you’re doing a home studio under less than great lighting I recommend this to make your life much easier in post–

https://www.reflecmedia.com

Noah

Call Box Training.
Featuring the Panasonic GH2 and Panasonic AC160/130.

[Brent Dunn]

There are many inexpensive setups, stands, backgrounds to choose from. If you do this a lot, it’s nice to have a permanent solution, but if it’s only once in a while, you can buy stands and a background.

B& H has many to choose from as well as Digital Juice.com.

Paper usually has some reflection which can bounce the green back onto your subject. Cloth is better. But like Noah said, get the lighting right.

Brent Dunn
Owner / Director / Editor
DunnRight Films
DunnRight Video.com
Video Marketing Toolbox.net

Sony EX-1,
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
Mac Pro
with Final Cut Studio Adobe CS6 Production

[Rick Diamond]

The 5DM3 keys very well. Definitely use the All-I codec. Ditto on good lighting.

Rick

[Jay Levi]

so far i have 2 quartz 1000 watt lights in huge soft boxes, i got them here: https://www.backdropsource.co.uk/Productinfo.asp?id=711&pname=2000-watts-quartz-softbox-kit but with 24×36 inch sized soft boxes https://www.backdropsource.co.uk/Productinfo.asp?id=1150&pname=heat-resistant-soft-box-24inch-x-36inch , very bright alone and very nice with the boxes, you think i should get another soft box, the co,pany suggested a boom stand with one more box

[David Rehm]

Have you ever considered building your own lights? Jeff Foster, who is considered one of the gurus of keying, gives this instructional video on how to build great lighting for your green screen.

check it out:
https://www.video2brain.com/en/courses/green-screen-workshop-the-shoot

David

[Jay Levi]

i have shot with a single quartz 1000 light and a soft box before using a 5D mkii, when i went to premiere it took one click to get chroma keying perfect, now i have 2 Quartzs lights to make sure the back ground is lit,

this was with one subject btw, i imagine a whole band would need 2 lights front, Boom stand top and back ground to be lit well with an additional 2 lights, 5 point greenscreen system

[David Rehm]

I only use the lights I built (which are 2) to light the screen. I use OnLocation for monitoring and the scopes are in “the” range it needs to be for the best conditions to key.

Whatever works best – use it.

David

[Nitin Kulkarni]

hi,

i want to shoot highly professional green screen video. i am confused between shooting on Canon 5D Mark iii and sony pmw 500 Xdcam hd 422. i want to use 5D but am not sure about its recording format. with H.264 and 4:2:0 will be able to pull of better key? or should i go with sony 500 whic records 4:2:2 for the best results?

😀
nitin

[Charles Meadows]

For the best results you go for the highest colour space… 4:2:2 out does 4:2:0. However, you’re talking about paper green screen in your living room so I think the colour space conversation is a little “over kill”. If you want a half decent key then 90% of it is in the lighting.

“There’s no point in filming if you don’t have fun”
Charles Meadows
Creative Director
Incubate Productions South Africa
http://www.incubatevideo.co.za

[Jay Levi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxszmgTszpQ the EX3 seems to be great for a 4:2:0 camera, yes i agree 4:2:2 is the minimum needed for clean keying as many respected professionals put it here in the CC forums, then the lights and camera also can help if the user knows what he is doing evidently the keying in the video link is very clean, 4:2:0

Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!

This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.