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  • Whats a white seamless background technique for this?

    Posted by Jonas Radahl on September 27, 2012 at 3:54 pm

    IM doing a small web series for an upcoming yoga app we are are doing. I showed up to a studio with a much smaller white backdrop than promised and I cant do the shoot again
    me and my working partner is lives in two different countries (us and sweden).

    How can I try to make this as nice as possible, its just gonna come up on you tube but still like a more even background than the “noise” at the sides 🙂 its not gonna be the actual product but still wanna keep some professional integrity since its going to represent a very nice looking product which selling point is the design.

    I have tried to search for this online so also grateful for a good search term for my problem.
    I took this screen shot so you know what Im talking about.

    I know its unevenly lighted but the rental place only had one light left a big kino flo and I was only in new york for that day

    https://dl.dropbox.com/u/35136095/yogashot.png

    I use premier pro

    id be so so thankful for any input.

    thanks

    Jonas

    Bob Auiler replied 13 years, 7 months ago 5 Members · 8 Replies
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  • Jan Bauters

    September 27, 2012 at 4:53 pm

    Feather crop it onto a white background, might work.

  • Jonas Radahl

    September 27, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    Thx Ill try to that.
    By feather crop, you mean using this plug in?

    Appreciate the reply – will report back

  • Matthew Sonnenfeld

    September 27, 2012 at 8:22 pm

    I don’t think that you should need a plugin. You should be able to use a garbage matte and just feather the edges within Premiere’s effects controls. Then just place that all over a white background.

    Chances are though that a flat white may be a little too bright. Play around with varying levels of grey and/or cream so that you can best match your existing white backdrop.

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  • Jonas Radahl

    September 27, 2012 at 8:32 pm

    Thanks Matthew, excellent idea. I think I’ll just have to do that for each clip cause the background “white” various to much and finding the correct colour balance there.

    I’m deeply thankful

  • Matthew Sonnenfeld

    September 27, 2012 at 8:45 pm

    Glad to help! Hope it goes well!

    Panasonic HPX170, Canon 7D
    2011 Macbook Pro 17″, 2.3 Ghz Quad Core, 16GB RAM
    AJA IoXT
    Adobe Production Premium CS6, Avid Symphony 6, Final Cut Pro Studio 3
    The College of William and Mary

  • Jonas Radahl

    September 27, 2012 at 9:17 pm

    Will report back!

  • Tero Ahlfors

    September 28, 2012 at 4:59 am

    You could also try to clone that “white” background to fill the rest of the image.

  • Bob Auiler

    September 28, 2012 at 10:58 am

    Hi Jonas,
    Another option would be the roto brush tool in After Effects. As long as you are putting the subject overd a similar background, any rough edges will disappear.

    If you’re not familiar with it, just google AE roto tool and you’ll find a bunch of tutorials. It’s very simple to use and would probably work great against the white background.

    Bob Auiler | bob.auiler@mvpcollaborative.com

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