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How to add Backgroud to live footage?
WHOEVER HELPS ME WILL SAVE ME THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS!! Bless You!
I have been doing an interactive “movie set” at local elementary schools for almost a year. The presentation has gotten pretty popular and i have schools calling me all the time now.
Last week a Junior High School called and begged me to do it for thier 7th & 8th grade classes.
I usually only do elementary and the kids get to “act” in a scene fron a pirate movie I wrote just for the presentation.My 11 year old daughter and I agreed that Junior High Schoolers may find “Pirates” too “babyish”. I decided I would have them “Film” a “Mucic Video ” instead.
WHOEVER HELPS ME WILL SAVE ME THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS!!To make it look more authentic, I want to have a scenic background on the set. This is because the Cameras are connected to a big screen TV so the students and “Director” can see what the “Cameraman” sees.
The problem is, those large Muslim Scenic Backgrounds for film and theatre are EXPENSIVE!!! Like THOUSANDS of dollars!
I remember taking my kids to Chuck-E-Cheese pizza and they had a video camera with a “Green Screen”. When the kids got in front of the camera and danced around, you could see the on the TV above- only with a different background!
I keep asking my friends how they do that but of course, they don’t know.
Does anyone here know how I can ackomplish that same effect? I have the chroma screen and camera of course but what else do I need? A laptop? If so, what kid of software and cables and how do I connect everything?
Im sure its MUCH cheaper that buying or renting a cloth backdrop!
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All you need is a vision mixer capable of keying. Film them against the greenscreen and input to the mixer as one source then add another source (BG Video) key out the green then send the PRM output to both a record deck and the TV – and thats it.
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I found a fine green screen on ebay for less than 200 bucks. It’s polyester, totally portable and hanges quickly with just two C-stands.
You can do a quick search for inexpensive chroma key drops.
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