http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: green screen - Recent Posts en Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:27:35 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/superhero-themed-series-test-footage#post-74697 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:21:28 +0000 Christian Hegg 74697@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Some buddies and I have put together some test footage for a superhero themed project.  Right now, we just shot some test footage and hoping to develop into a web series.</p> <p>Any feedback is appreciated!</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNxZ2zxL-mk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNxZ2zxL-mk</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/3-minute-short-i-need-green-screen-tips#post-74696 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:19:38 +0000 Christian Hegg 74696@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>This is really good and very clean.</p> <p> </p> <p>We did something similiar but seem to have glow on it.  Any suggestions for this?</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNxZ2zxL-mk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNxZ2zxL-mk</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/3-minute-short-i-need-green-screen-tips#post-74581 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:35:41 +0000 birdcat 74581@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Watch this: <a href="http://downloads.digitaljuice.com/djtv/DJTV-TechKnow-s01e109-iPod.mp4" rel="nofollow">http://downloads.digitaljuice.com/djtv/DJTV-TechKnow-s01e109-iPod.mp4</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/3-minute-short-i-need-green-screen-tips#post-74579 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:50:34 +0000 DNSVideo 74579@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>What NLE are you using to edit this out with and do the chroma key effect with?  The settings in green screen or chroma key area should have all kinds of sliders to get this effect done right.  </p> <p>See my blue screen effect using My NLE, Pinnacle Studio and a nice Blue Sky for the effect.  I shot this with a Canon ZR930 camcorder   <a href="http://youtu.be/Hcw8svlNrow" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/Hcw8svlNrow</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/3-minute-short-i-need-green-screen-tips#post-74578 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:07:04 +0000 KenzoFKC 74578@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Howdy!  A buddy and I recently shot this short.  We used a green screen set up.  I lit the green screen up really well, and put decent light on the subjects.  In the hair and beard you can see some green bleeding through, and sometimes the green reflects off of different objects in the foreground.  Subjects are about 10 feet from the screen.  I'm shooting on a Panasonic HMC-150.  Anybody got any suggestions to suppress green spillage?  Thanks! </p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSCwLnA0Wk8&amp;context=C3a8ad29ADOEgsToPDskIm0y1KOecQBIDXFsBgFKrv" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSCwLnA0Wk8&amp;context=C3a8ad29ADOEgsToPDskIm0y1KOecQBIDXFsBgFKrv</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-this-possible-with-green-screen#post-73814 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:46:26 +0000 Ian James Smith 73814@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I forgot, when posting last, to mention my 'fall-back' graphic, if I am unable to secure the results I want with the methods I have already described. I frequently carry a Garmin 'Oregon 450' GPS with me, especially following an unfortunate event where I failed to return home by nightfall after day spent in thick 'bush', accidentally following an illegally-marked trail, and had my old GPS quit on me due to impenetrable bush-cover overhead. My night-out in the open bush, waiting for sunshine the following day, (which enabled me to navigate my way out using my wrist-watch and the sun's position), had out, searching for me, 50 Search-and-Rescue personnel, the police, a helicopter and two boats out-at-sea; something of which, to this day, I do not care to be reminded, particularly. The problem had been that of getting a message 'out', as, in the area, cellphone coverage was zilch, and I don't carry one anyway. It's no big dea; I have had nights out in the bush before, but, of course, that was before I was married and had a family at home to report that I was overdue. I was in no danger, (we have no snakes, nor bears, only possums, deer and pigs), and the only respect which gave any cause for concern, was that during the day, which had been stinking-hot, I had gulped down two-thirds of my single bottle of water. </p> <p> However, I have created a handy little 'mask' consisting of a graphic of my GPS, physical, which I have also reproduced, rotated 90 deg to the left, and also to the right for those instances where I am moving, effectively across the screen, rather than up-and-down, (when I use the normal, unrotated view).</p> <p> Now, the screen of the GPS, in the graphic, has been replaced by an area of 'green-screen'. I also have the map in my computer appropriate to the area I am travelling-in. The nature of the actual GPS display makes it useless for reproduction as a means of showing routes travelled on video, but small areas, copied off the map are ideal and quite visible, even though the GPS and its window only occupies a corner on the lower left-hand side of the screen. It is easy, to animate a travelling line over part of the map in the GPS's 'window' to give an indication of where I am at any one time, (the marked-route must, of course be absent from the portion of the map, in-use, as you have to animate, frame-by-frame, a 'new' line onto it). Magnified, somewhat, the screen image on a GPS seems to be somewhat pixellated, at any time, and then, it is quite in-order to use a line which pixellates naturally, as that falls into-line with the rest of the image. Simple, and works extremely well. Only disadvantage is, that it is a bit small.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-this-possible-with-green-screen#post-73812 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:47:54 +0000 Ian James Smith 73812@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> </p> <p>Just a footnote. I have doubled the green-screen image size to 3840 x 2160 and reduced the image-size again, from there, when it has become necessary, It had made some improvement (and I have used that method, often, when creating 'chroma-based' screen-objects which were static, and only called for a single frame of information), but the files-sizes are, of course, horrendous. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-this-possible-with-green-screen#post-73779 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:45:06 +0000 Jackson Wong 73779@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I am currently putting together a video segment of an afternoon's walk of several kilometres (or 'miles', if that's what you 'do' in your neck-of-the-woods). Each portion of the overall sequence of about twelve minutes duration, is introduced by a widish-angle 'panoramic' shot taken from a tripod, which shows the track to be traversed, clearly. The intention, (and it's well on the way to fulfilment, since everything 'works'), is to animate an ever-extending white-line from end to end of the walked-over landscape-shot in full-screen, indicating progress and at any one time, and, optionally, to run the corresponding video shots in a reduced-size window. The technology is perfected, and the line travels, ever-extending as the corresponding, directly-obtained shots keep pace in the smaller 'window'. Being able to run the smaller window allows me to intermix 1920 x 1080 and 720 x 576 shots without the latter appearing to be at a disadvantage. The whole effect is created by laying-out on a photograph, the same size as the finished images, the line to be traversed in 'chroma'-compatible green, which has been lightened slightly in tone, so as to be 'visible' against the true 'chroma' green of the typical green-screen process. Both greens have been selected so as to 'disappear' when the 'chroma' function is invoked. That is then selected, and 'lifted' by means of 'copy', and plonked onto a blank 'green-screen' of 1920 x 1080 pixels. It's merely then, a matter of tracing the final 'white-line', frame by frame onto the green blank, using the 'pilot' slightly-lighter line as a guide and extending the line in even steps. It works brilliantly, but for one thing. My beautiful crisp tidy 'lines' once saved as  'frames' (one to each 'step') and brought back to the screen again, at rendering-time, have pixellated badly at the edges and no-longer stand-out against the background as they were first drawn. On projection, the lovely crisp and accurate line has gone muddy, due to the numbers of pixel which are now, neither green, nor white, but somewhere in-between, and with a line only four pixels wide, that means, effectively, the entire line.</p> <p>My question, then, is this: Is it possible to save this material as a series of 'unmerged' images so that the outlines remain crisp, clear and well-defined? Has anyone 'out-there' had to overcome this problem and is able to point me in the right direction? All suggestions welcome.</p> <p>Ian Smith </p> <p>Dunedin - New Zealand</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-lighting-a-subject-green-screen#post-73162 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:28:41 +0000 jackwolcott 73162@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Way, way better! Keep up the good work. This really looks great.</p> <p>Jack</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-lighting-a-subject-green-screen#post-73148 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:53:59 +0000 Kenkyusha 73148@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>&nbsp;Again, way better- if you continue to improve&nbsp;at this rate, you'll be pulling keys that are indistinguishable from reality in no time!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-lighting-a-subject-green-screen#post-73147 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:44:38 +0000 Sylas 73147@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks for the advice Ken!</p> <p>After moving the subject a bit further away, endlessly tweaking the lights and camcorder settings again, this is the result: <a href="http://imgur.com/1vvFr">http://imgur.com/1vvFr</a></p> <p>Can't believe this is the same camera.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-lighting-a-subject-green-screen#post-73143 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:22:25 +0000 Kenkyusha 73143@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>First off- that's way better than the first example.</p> <p>For the next round of improvements, you are currently getting some green spill.&nbsp; If you have the option of moving the subject further from the screen, that will help.&nbsp; Also CTM (magenta gels) will help moderate your lighting color to cut down on bounce.&nbsp; Finally, you may want to tweak the choke/feather settings of your software.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-lighting-a-subject-green-screen#post-73050 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:02:55 +0000 Sylas 73050@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks for the helpful responses! I really appreciate them. So I took both your suggestions into consideration and played around with the lights as well as the exposure. I think it's quite an improvement. This is post green screen editing in AE: <a href="http://imgur.com/kiZOk">http://imgur.com/kiZOk</a></p> <p>Thoughts?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-lighting-a-subject-green-screen#post-73015 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:31:34 +0000 Don 73015@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>the reason it looks good zoomed in is because your lens is a variable aperture zoom meaning it lets in less light as you zoom to the telephoto end..</p> <p>also your exposure meter can be fooled by how much (backlit in this case) background is in the frame..</p> <p>solution.. set your exposure manually, once; and don't use the zoom, move the camera...</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-lighting-a-subject-green-screen#post-73011 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:05:28 +0000 jackwolcott 73011@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Way too much light on the subject. Much of the detail is blowing out and you're clipping on his face, especially on our right. Try using different light sources on the talent. </p> <p>We often use a 100watt NRG on camera light with diffusion, mounted on a light stand and placed very close to the talent, for a key and a 200 or 400watt photo flood soft box made out of foam core with a diffuser medium on the front for fill and hair. </p> <p>Pull out as wide as you intend shooting, then look through your viewfinder or at a good monitor while an assistant moves the lights around to see how best to cool things down. What you see with your eye is quite different than what the camera sees.</p> <p>If you balance the lighting for the long shot the CU should work o.k. If it doesn't, re-light for the CUs.</p> <p>Good luck,</p> <p>Jack</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-lighting-a-subject-green-screen#post-73008 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:08:20 +0000 Sylas 73008@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi all</p> <p>I'm using a green screen setup with two fluorescent(5.5K) soft-boxes lighting a human subject and another two lighting the screen. I'm using a Sony C150X Handycam on a tripod with daylight white balance settings.</p> <p>The screen is working pretty well but I'm having trouble achieving the desired effect with the subject. When I zoom in close to the subject's face, he looks very natural, however when zoomed out further, he looks washed out and too bright. </p> <p>Here is a picture demonstrating the different the different effects at different zoom levels: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/3WQeM.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/3WQeM.png</a></p> <p>Why does this happen and how can I make the subject look like he does on the left while getting more of his body in the shot.</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/green-screen-for-movies#post-72680 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:15:24 +0000 Don 72680@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>lightstands:</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbkyCbf3zzc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbkyCbf3zzc</a></p> <p> </p> <p>and some simple clamp on light fixtures (either halogen worklamps, or metal dish reflector type clamps, cand be bought for $10.00 or less each..</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/green-screen-for-movies#post-72676 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:43:10 +0000 Freddy 72676@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi lauren. Like someone said above, it's very cool that you encourage her :)</p> <p>And all the advises sound good. However, if I were 14 years old and learning myself how to do green screen stuff, I probably would reach the point where I say to myself: "Oh, all that seems easy. I just need a green material for background, light it separately, then light my talent. Load it to the latest iMovie, and that's it! Oh wait... I don't have lights.. mm but any lights would do, right?"</p> <p>For me, the hardest thing to get, are good lights. The rest is pretty much a do it yourself project, and the learning process.</p> <p>Lighting is everything : ) (at least most of the time)</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/green-screen-for-movies#post-72669 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:23:54 +0000 doabgah 72669@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Why only FCP it is adobe which also supports Mac.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/green-screen-for-movies#post-72668 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:22:27 +0000 doabgah 72668@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> FCP(Final cut pro) is a profesional editing softwear.How can a lay man edited on it without any guidance.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/green-screen-for-movies#post-72645 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:55:11 +0000 Don 72645@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Lauren somebody misinformed you... imovie 11 does indeed do green screen and does it very well for your intended uses.</p> <p>also final cut pro x and final cut express as well..</p> <p>what mac os are you running? what version of imovie?</p> <p>here is a simple how to video for creating your own backgrounds:</p> <p><a href="http://gallery.me.com/lightexpressions#100937" rel="nofollow">http://gallery.me.com/lightexpressions#100937</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/green-screen-for-movies#post-72632 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:21:43 +0000 Lauren 72632@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi all- I went to Tubetape and they said there is no video software for Mac. They have all the green screen stuff of course. I have seen things that have space ship back grounds etc. I think she would love that but is it true there is nothing for Macs?  My daughter has iMovie but where do you get the cool back grounds?</p> <p>Thanks Luis for the great video. I am going to show it to my daughter after Christmas. </p> <p>Thanks Moabman for the green painted wall idea. That sounds ideal but my hubby would kill me :)</p> <p>Thanks Jennifer for the links. I will check them out. She will enjoy the Daniel movie too.</p> <p>You guys are great!</p> <p>Lauren</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/green-screen-for-movies#post-72604 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:07:56 +0000 Moab Man 72604@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Another option, if you have the room, is to paint a wall. Unless someone has it handy, i will post the color code and you can have a can of paint mixed at Home Depot or Lowes.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/green-screen-for-movies#post-72594 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:21:52 +0000 Jennifer O'Rourke 72594@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi, Lauren, I'm Jennifer O'Rourke, <em><strong>Videomaker</strong></em>'s managing editor. Here are a few more links you might want to share with your daughter about Green Screen work. It's really getting much easier than in the old days, due to the camera and keying technology, but you can still improve your video with good production techniques.</p> <p><a href="http://www.videomaker.com/article/8787/" rel="nofollow">http://www.videomaker.com/article/8787/</a> [Lighting for Green Screen]</p> <p><a href="http://www.videomaker.com/article/14949" rel="nofollow">http://www.videomaker.com/article/14949</a> [Making Green Screen Believable]</p> <p><a href="http://www.videomaker.com/article/14933" rel="nofollow">http://www.videomaker.com/article/14933</a> [Directing Talent in the Green Screen] </p> <p>And it might be nice to have someone her own age to follow for inspireation. We've been following the career of Daniel Hart, a 16-year old producer who has been making videos for 10 years. Here's a profile we recently wrote: </p> <p><a href="http://www.videomaker.com/article/15532/" rel="nofollow">http://www.videomaker.com/article/15532/</a> [Daniel Hart - Up and Coming Producer]</p> <p>You're a terrific mom to encourage your daughter in this very rewarding career or hobby. Good luck to her and tell her to keep on making those videos, it only get better!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/green-screen-for-movies#post-72578 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:58:13 +0000 Ann Baldwin 72578@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Very funny movie - but also helpful. Thank you!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/green-screen-for-movies#post-72567 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:51:44 +0000 SargeHero 72567@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hello Lauren</p> <p>You will need a couple of things to make a successful greenscreen production, being lights the most important. The greenscreen fabric is not that important because you can use any cloth that is green (or blue). For better results you can get a muslin backdrop, which works great and is relatively cheap. As for lightning you need at least 4 lights (2 for the greenscreen itself and the other two for the talent). You will also need to consider where are you going to setup your greenscreen studio and how much space you have available. As for software you can manage with iMovie and get got quality results, as long as you light the greenscreen right. </p> <p>I suggest you to visit <a title="TubeTape" href="http://www.tubetape.net/servlet/StoreFront">Tubetape.net</a>, they have everything you will need regarding greenscreen and they can answer any question regarding equipment. They also have a 50% weekly deal (every Thursday) which you could get everything you need for half the price. Also check Ebay for greenscreen backdrops. </p> <p>Here is a video I made about Lightning a Greenscreen a la Guerrilla Style. Enjoy. </p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mhz41X6aVc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mhz41X6aVc</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/green-screen-for-movies#post-72564 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:30:16 +0000 Lauren 72564@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>My daughter is 14. She has a Flip video camera and a Mabook and has made some great short movies. For Christmas I wanted to see about getting her a green screen, or body suit and software. I have no idea what she needs to use it. She s pretty darn good on the computer but she is new o this. We need Mac compatible stuff. Any ideas?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-fabric-for-green-screen-paint#post-72453 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:44:18 +0000 seikialice88 72453@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thank you so much for your post.</p> <p>__________________<a href="http://fullmoviesonlinefree.net/"><br />Watch The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Online Free</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/best-fabric-for-green-screen-paint#post-72410 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:56:28 +0000 signmax 72410@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Hi,</p> <p>See in your area a sign supplier to use a flexible sign face that is a reinforced thin plastic this is transparent to backlith and very durable for outside and you can paint it or print it. the width is about 12 feet and lenght is in roll may be few hundreds feet. Other advantage you can stick with double face or sew. 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