White background

[Graham Bernard]

If you can do some footage without you in frame, capture this back to the timeline above or below your main, track motion it to obscure the shadows and then mask out what you don’t want.

You could try inverting the new footage si that which is dark will be lit and so on.

If you wish to give me a STILL of with and then without you I’d love to have a go.

Apart from evenly lighting it from the start, I’ve got other ideas.

Grazie

[Hiran De silva]

Graham,

A ‘dummy’ is here. Here the background is lit with a table lamp. 500W photoflood does a better job (but not enough).
https://www.anewkindofexcelexperience.com/

The background can be a plain white image.

Thanks for help.

Hiran

[Bob Peterson]

Try adding more lights. It’s always better to let the camera capture the desired result.

[Hiran De silva]

Bob, I was thinking the same. Moving to another room where there is more light also.

[Frank Stevn]

The light is not perfect, but is acceptable. If you make it perfect white, your message won’t be impacted very much.

If I where you I would focus on the sound. Use a lavaliere mic to avoid the room echo. Your message will be perceived to be more professional.

[Mike Kujbida]

D. Eric Franks (he used to be a moderator on here) did a great tutorial on this technique.
Lighting Infinite White

[Hiran De silva]

Frank, I used a Rode NTG-2 Dual Powered Shotgun Condenser Microphone with far too much reverb (in this test). I have a lapel mic I shall experiment with. Good point.

[Hiran De silva]

Thanks. That’s a brilliant video tutorial!

Here’s a test I did last year (I just found).
https://www.askhiran.com/excelexperience/default_ooh.asp
This kind of background will do. (excuse the silly stuff! and amateur graphics. Now done with PowerPoint https://www.askhiran.com/excelomg/introvideo.asp)

Hiran

[Stephen Mann]

[Hiran de SIlva] “Frank, I used a Rode NTG-2 Dual Powered Shotgun Condenser Microphone with far too much reverb (in this test). I have a lapel mic I shall experiment with. Good point.”

If the microphone -ANY microphone- is on the camera, you *will* get room echo.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Hiran De silva]

Stephen, mic-on-camera (for me) is much worse than that! My cam is a Sony Handycam and is very very very noisy!

The Rode mic is close to me, pointing at me, and recording the audio to a digital recorder (at 48khz so it syncs in Vegas Pro properly, thanks guys). But will try the lapel mic (as suggested) which would be even better.