[Serban Andrei]

Thank you Chris, i am proud of the result but i want to make it better. I don’t know what it is but after i uploaded the footage on YouTube, it got a lot worse, maybe isn’t noise, but i don’t know how to call it. It looks like it’s pixelated or something, it does not look HD, and i am sure of that because i can see the difference between the footage from the PC vs YouTube. Maybe it’s YouTube’s compression or i have to convert my video in some other format. I saw videos that look better than mine on YouTube, and i am sure that they were filmed with a inferior camera.

[Serban Andrei]

After numerous changes, but unsatisfying results, i dropped the chroma key process along with the green screen and moved my subject in front of a white wall. I had some problems with shadows and proper amount of light on my subject, but i bought 2 umbrellas. Seems to be a good choice, i’m now using just 2 1000W lights instead of 4. I placed them in front of my subject and this is the result so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX7pwXhJiP8

I am pretty happy with this, but still i have one big issue. Noise, can’t seem to figure it out…my gain in low on my camera, my subject has enough light but the footage still has noise. After i uploaded the video to YouTube the noise looks a lot worse, in the footage from my computer it’s clearly better. Another is that i would like my background to be closer to white. Right now i am thinking at a decoration of some sort in the background…with some posters, boards and maybe a big TV. I don’t know how is going to look and i am afraid that the lights will be reflecting from the TV..but i am going to try. And still…until i get somewhere with the decorations i would like to make the background closer to white.

Some thoughts? Thanks.

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[Serban Andrei]

It’s not a problem, don’t worry about it. I posted here hoping to get advices from people with more experience than me. I will definitely try that and come back with a post, thank you.

[Serban Andrei]

Thanks Chris, i am using the “Denoiser” plug-in, is it possible to influence the footage detail? Because when i apply the effect, it ads a bit of blurriness to the image. I am going to do film editing for a while, atm i am not thinking about a new camera. But for the future, what should i look for at a camera? As for the camera, it’s a Panasonic AG-AC120EN.

[Serban Andrei]

Thanks for the tips guys. Sorry for not replying. So this is what i managed to achieve in the meantime, this is the last movie i made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEU9E5PoALY

I think that black t-shirt is ruining the footage that the camera is filming. It’s visible in this video that when the zoom goes to his black jeans, the imagine is not looking good. I tried to move the lights a little bit to remove the reflections in his glasses but i think i do not have enough space to work with in the room or i just don’t know where to put them. Also, i don’t know another method for keying besides “keylight” is there any?

Please tell me how it looks. Thanks

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[Serban Andrei]

So i set my gain to low on my camera and i have used the Status view mode on the keylight effect and removed the background only with clip black & clip white. This is how the video looks(you can skip the first 30 seconds and watch it from the moment he sits at the table):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjqT3kqoBhA

The background looks ok, the edges of the t-shirt look ok, but what i do not like are the edges of his skin…they are a bit glowing, and also i have some noise on the t-shirt, and i really don’t know what to do about it, i’m using Denoiser in After Effects for noise reduction, it takes some of it out but not enough i think.

Thanks for the suggestions Darby, i didn’t have the chance to apply them but yes, i will try to move one of the lights so it does not reflect, i don’t have much space to work with but i will do my best. Also, what do you mean by “expose for the subject”? Chris said in his first post “expose the BG correctly” but i can’t seem to understand.

Yea, the editing in the SourceFed video is much faster, but for now what i am trying to achieve are just that type of colours, that cut, and just the general image which for me looks really nice and clean, nothing more.

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[Serban Andrei]

Thanks Chris, i’m going to do what you said and come back with a post. I was thinking about buying a white canvas background or just shoot my subject in front of a white wall and skip the chroma key process but i’m afraid i will not manage to light my white background properly so that it will look pure white. Do you think it’s possible?