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Some of of your mattes are plagued with black fringes... It's a lot of work, but isolating those spots and tightening up the matte can make a giant difference. I find clip black, shrinking a bit and softening can help, one or more of those. Look up mark christensen's after effects book, he goes into great detail of keylight controls.

The transparent mesh of the gown held up really well - what camera did you shoot with?
 
Unfortunately, green screen shooting conditions were very bad and we had perfect material recorded work
 
There are tons of posts here about lighting the screen - but after finishing a music video this week with 85 SHOTS, every one composited... I can tell you having a cheap garment steamer and a way to stretch the screen TIGHT (killing all wrinkles) is priceless.

I also like the savage chromakey seamless paper for floors, but it's not nearly as saturated as even cheap eBay fabric screens and takes some light to get it useful.
 
Michael Carter said:
There are tons of posts here about lighting the screen - but after finishing a music video this week with 85 SHOTS, every one composited... I can tell you having a cheap garment steamer and a way to stretch the screen TIGHT (killing all wrinkles) is priceless.

I also like the savage chromakey seamless paper for floors, but it's not nearly as saturated as even cheap eBay fabric screens and takes some light to get it useful.
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What is your camera... the Wife is bugging me about doing some greenscreening activities, and I've been sort of avoiding it for a while... I did by several 'cheap' 'greenscreen for your web cam' type
deals, but I've not tried them as the Wife does have some 'locations' in mind, and these looked light and portable...

I'm sure the purists would condemn such activities... but heck I've used Target green sheets... so... I'll wait for the big bux to do it 'right'...
 
I shot this with a Panasonic HMC-150; I usually use a DSLR for music videos, but I found it much MUCH harder to key.

I've used green posterboard, painted ceilings green (had the paint store scan & match an eBay screen - paint came out great), all kinds of stuff. I've seen shots from hollywood using bright magenta screens. Green works well because it's one of the 3 colors making up RGB - if you can light close to the full-green RGB value, makes it easier to key - little or no data in the red and blue plates.

I'm waiting on final comments from the artist on this video, hopefully will have an "official" release this week. This was done nights & weekends for no pay, so it's far from perfect and we didn't want it to look "really real" - a little cartoony was OK with us:

 
Michael Carter said:
I shot this with a Panasonic HMC-150; I usually use a DSLR for music videos, but I found it much MUCH harder to key.

I've used green posterboard, painted ceilings green (had the paint store scan & match an eBay screen - paint came out great), all kinds of stuff. I've seen shots from hollywood using bright magenta screens. Green works well because it's one of the 3 colors making up RGB - if you can light close to the full-green RGB value, makes it easier to key - little or no data in the red and blue plates.

I'm waiting on final comments from the artist on this video, hopefully will have an "official" release this week. This was done nights & weekends for no pay, so it's far from perfect and we didn't want it to look "really real" - a little cartoony was OK with us:
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Yeah, this is sort of what the Wife wants to do... but with out the babealicousness... damn... but I'll have to figure out what I can do with the GH-1, as I don't have an other HD moving picture camera...
 
GH1 is AVCHD like the HMC, not sure how similar the footage is. For keying with the HMC, I found it liked lots of light. Having a bright, even screen and really tight focus helped a lot. Mark Christensen's AE CS5 book has a killer breakdown on keylight.

I made two sort of "S" shaped channels from plywood and screwed them to the location wall, floor to ceiling - allowed us to clamp the screen really tight. Used about 17' of a 20' screen. HAd a biax flo on each side, and two DIY big-bulb flos ceiling mounted. Those 85 watt flos really kick out some photons.

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Here's a look at the screen mounting - note the garment steamer back there. Basically having flat planes to clamp with, that won't twist the screen around, really helped.

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