Where to get free stuff?

1. addisonn
   Member

   

   I dont have any money to buy chroma key backgrounds!!

   where can i get free video stuff?

   Posted 3 years ago #

2. Rob Grauert
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    you don't need a real chroma key background. use a green or blue bed sheet. Try to hang it with minimal "wrinklage"

   Rob Grauert, Jr
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   Posted 3 years ago #

3. domineaux
   Member

   

   I was at Walmart last Saturday and they have fabrics on the roll kinda stuff.  I looked for Royal Blue and Green fabrics.  They had some I think that would work and they were like very cheap at $2.67 per yard.  I haven't done any chromakey todate, but I would think you could match the colors up I saw at the Walmart with a good edit program.

   If you are reading this and you do not agree, please say so.  This is what I plan to buy otherwise.

   I have found some cheap chromakey muslims as they are called on a website call tubetape.com, but they are $49 per sheet.  That is still $98 if you need the blue and green.

    http://store02.prostores.com/servlet/tubetape/the-4/Chromakey-Green--Muslin/Detail

   Posted 3 years ago #

4. addisonn
   Member

   

   I have a green screen! i just need free backgrounds for my videos that are shoot infront of the green screen

   Posted 3 years ago #

5. domineaux
   Member

   

   you can find them by search engine, i.e, google, live search, yahoo, etc.

   Search several keywords Video Digital Backdrops, video digital backgrounds, video backgrounds

   You really just have to search them out.  I'm new to this myself so my experience with what to use is limited. 

   I have found a bunch of sites and I've been marking them as favorites to really narrow down choices later.

   There are some free ones on alot of sites.  The graphic ones require some kind cool software to produce.

   The landscape ones most of us with a camcorder can probably produce ourselves.

   Posted 3 years ago #

6. Coreece
   Member

   

   digital juice and footage firm are a good place to start.

   If you have After Effects or Motion there are some decent backgrounds included...or you can just make your own with these programs...

   AE has a brainstorm feature where you can make a simple background and it will create unlimited backgrounds based on specific features you select from that background.

   http://stockfootageforfree.com/

   http://www.footagefirm.com

   http://www.digitaljuice.com

   http://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/Brain_Storm.php  (AE brainstorm reference)

   Posted 3 years ago #

7. domineaux
   Member

   

   I'm looking for some office type backgrounds

   Warm and cozy kinda nice home, or elegant wood panel office backgrounds with books and stuff. 

   Maybe law library looking or fireside chat kinda stuff.

   The kinda backgrounds you see on TV where they're interviewing some Celebrity and they want to create warm and fuzzy ambiance.

   Posted 3 years ago #

8. Coreece
   Member

   

   generally speaking....in my experience, if I needed something specific...I usually end up having to pay for it or spend insane amounts of time looking for it. 

   Perhaps using still images of what you described would be best.  All the things you listed seem to be static shots without  movement  except the fireside chat stuff.  Using stills for backgrounds is a very common technique and the results can be very professional and can look better than using video backgrounds.  If you can't find any for free, http://www.fotolia.com and http://www.istockphoto.com have thousands of pictures of almost anything for $1.

   Good Luck!

   I'll let you know if I find anything....

   Posted 3 years ago #

9. Ryan3078
   Member

   

    Some stuff here:

   http://stockfootageforfree.com/

    and here!

   http://www.movietools.info/index.php?option=com_docman&Itemid=4

   Posted 3 years ago #

10. domineaux
    Member

    

    I'm looking for some office type backgrounds Warm and cozy kinda nice home, or elegant wood panel office backgrounds with books and stuff.  Maybe law library looking or fireside chat kinda stuff. The kinda backgrounds you see on TV where they're interviewing some Celebrity and they want to create warm and fuzzy ambiance.

    I forgot this was thread is about free stuff. Naturally, I would like to find some good backdrops free.  I do realize some things I'll have to buy.

    So, I would buy these backdrops if necessary.

    Thanks

    Posted 3 years ago #

11. Don
    Member

    

     here's an idea...I'd love to try this out first, but time constraints....let me know if you try it and how well it goes, Wedding season is almost over for me, and I'll have more time next month....

    In photography, we use a white screen instead of blue or green. I've been wanting to try this with video.

    the biggest advantage of course is lightspill cleanup.

    just light up a white sheet or if you have matte white wall, light it up, try to get the area in your frame evenly lit (1/10 of a stop from top to bottom, edge to edge.). make sure your background is two stops brighter than your subject,and expose for your subject.

    film your talent. bring the clip into your nle, duplicate the layer (you'll need to garbage matte one layer (tightly around the talent, to keep any white in the subject/talent (eyes for example). then key out the white from the other layer). 

    then use a still camera to shoot your backgrounds.

    white on white is tough with this technique, but black foamcore carefully placed as negative diffusers, can be used to define the  edges of say a white shirt from a white background.

    Posted 3 years ago #

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