Bluescreen Attempt Part 1

Green is theoretically better for DV as the codec has twice as many green samples as any other color.
 
I've bought some amazing blue/rubbery cloth (bluescreen) and it worked amazing $5. Though most of it was close-up work. Also used luma keying white/gray works nice as well. For me lighting is the key (no pun) also mixing objects into foreground for wider shots.
Might be shooting some big area greenscreen studios on DVX soon, so I will post the results. Lets hope the room is not too big (damm your non-interchangable lens DVX!)
I worry what the results will look like from distance with DVX.
J.P.
 
Cheap Effective Blue Screen Scenes

Cheap Effective Blue Screen Scenes

I bought some blue felt at Hobby Lobby, 3$/yard and 2 yrds wide. It ended up costing like 15 dollars. Here's my results:
http://www.Vishwanand.com/churchscene.mov
http://www.Vishwanand.com/applescene.mov

Wider shots with more action may require a bigger area of blue. I lit the thing really well though, and also used Magic Bullet Filters in FCP to wash over the results. Felt works better than some proffesional green screens cause it soaks up the light evenly.
V.

http://www.Vishwanand.com
vvshetti@hotmail.com
 
That's some great stuff vvshetti, great results and good looking footage too. Where did you get the background plates?
 
cshelton said:
The line down the middle is due to improper keying. I missed the bordering edges of the key somehow!
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C- Did you do a garbage mask in AfterEffects? That always happens with garbage masks. The thing I learned is to always go to the mask properties and feather the mask by 1 or 2 pixels, and take the mask expansion down to -1. Those edges will also show up if you're doing a RAM preview or rendering at half resolution.

If anybody has some footage that seems impossible to key, like you might get with those really wide shots JP, try getting the dvmattepro plugin for AE, it works miracles with jaggies, and is really easy to use. It can still take some tweaking but they are the best keys I've ever pulled.

I'll post some clips later of keys I've pulled for music videos.

CAVEMAN :laugh:
 
I have bought stuff from J&K group on ebay that I liked. But you say that their chromakey popup does not really support itself? I had that problem with huge Botero "collapsible" from B&H and sent it back. If I can't just lean it against a wall, I may as well buy the whole stand and cloth setup. I was about to order one though, either from them or B&H. WHat can you tell me?
 
I ended up building my own frame for it with black PVC and it turned out nicely. It's not as portable as the one with the stands, so I'm kicking myself for that but it's not too bad to tote around.

The collapsable screens have a torque (twist) to them when you unfurl them, so it's not nice and flat if you were to lean it against the wall. That's why I built up a frame, and I'm using gaffer's tape to tape the thing down so it's completely flat against the frame.

If it's twisted, even the slightest bit, it tends to mess up the uniform lighting that you need when doing a bluescreen.
 
cshelton said:
I ended up building my own frame for it with black PVC and it turned out nicely. It's not as portable as the one with the stands, so I'm kicking myself for that but it's not too bad to tote around.

The collapsable screens have a torque (twist) to them when you unfurl them, so it's not nice and flat if you were to lean it against the wall. That's why I built up a frame, and I'm using gaffer's tape to tape the thing down so it's completely flat against the frame.

If it's twisted, even the slightest bit, it tends to mess up the uniform lighting that you need when doing a bluescreen.
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That makes sense. I bought one of their 5-in-1 collapsible reflectors and it was much better made than the competition. But based on your comments I guess I will go with the cloth and stand approach. Or maybe buy a pice of cloth and make my own PVC frame. Thanks.
 
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