Green Screen Recommendations for AF100

BollingerPro

BollingerPro

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Friends,

I am needing to buy a green screen. If you all have any tips or recommendations as to what to look for, please send them along!

Will be using the AF100 with the on-board codec.

Thanks!
 
Reflecmedia and Datavideo have some of the nicest chroma keying sytems on the market. Otherwise a basic green cloth from any video store properly lit can do the trick for a fraction of the cost.
 
properly lit is the deal, along with a decent keyer. PrimattePro kicks. use your waveform to get 40-50 IRE EVENLY across the green. light your talent however required for the scene. no need to backlight talent with CTO or straw gel. obviously avoid shiny things that reflect the green (eg, vinyl jacket). try for as much separation between talent & green as possible to minimize spill. during post, I almost always shrink & blur the matte a tiny bit to help with aliasing & also to "suck" the FG into the BG. again, PrimattePro is very good for this. Ultimatte Advantedge is actually better, but much slower to render.
 
maxusa said:
Reflecmedia and Datavideo have some of the nicest chroma keying sytems on the market. Otherwise a basic green cloth from any video store properly lit can do the trick for a fraction of the cost.
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I have yet to see anything that doesn't have horrible edges with fine detail from either of these companies. Even their demos are lousy. I would stick with what works and has worked for decades.
 
I'm in the need of a new screen, so I looked at their website, but couldn't find any size/pricing page for standard screens. Anyone?
 
Green screens that one owns are always too small. I have a 12x16 & a 10x20 and and some how they are always too small.

The reflectmedia is kind of interesting if you have to throw something together in a small space like a cramped hotel room but other than that I'm not a fan.

Yo can check out LA rag house for green screen material... THey custom made my two screen and they are very reasonably priced . They have either chroma green or digi green . I Shooter is not a fan of the digi material but that's what I have and it has worked for me very well over time. Digi green does not require as much light as chroma green which has its plusses and minuses, but given some of the hairball situations I have had to work in, less light and heat on the set has served me well.
 
Actually ...I am a fan of DIGI GREEN in out door locations where they can be rigged in the shadow . In the studio I always go for Chroma green.

I own a 20 x 20 of each. Think they came from Rag Factory in the U.S. They are foam backed.

We really try and look after them so they dont get marred. We always use them stretched on frames .

Also have a few blue ,green and black cloths 6m x 3m. ( No seams.)
They are light weight , cheap and very handy. They work just as well .

Photographic supply stores have them

Chroma screen work is only as could as the way they are lit and exposed.

The material is not a magic bullet.

I also recommend 4' green tubes in Kino Units ( for green screen) Awesome, flat and easy.
 
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