From The Thief of Bagdad to the Star Wars Saga to The Avengers, green and blue screen effects have a long history of bringing our most fantastic stories to life on screen. This is your Introduction to Green Screen. We'll explain how green screen works and how the technique...
We'll look at some common problems and see how you can fix them while you're shooting. We'll also examine some common visual effects (VFX) techniques that can be used to fix bad chroma shots.How the Magic WorksCompositingKeying is a compositing technique, but it’s not the only one. Typically, compositing...
This week we talk about about the best settings to use on your DSLR for green screen. There's lots of Canon-specific talk here, but most of this should apply to other brands as well.
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Keying and compositing. The act of removing and replacing portions of a shot to put together something new. For most of us, most of the time, this means keying out a green or blue screen (or any other solid color, for that matter) and placing the subject - usually...
Shooting great green screen shots and pulling clean chromakeys may seem daunting to the uninitiated, but with the continual improvements the industry has made to camera and editing technology, going green is easier than ever. A producer with a high quality video camera and an editing application like Adobe...
Shooting on green screen can be very tricky. So much so, that often the viewer can easily tell that the footage they're watching was shot on a green screen. It can take many years until one perfects this art form, but these 5 tips might save you some time...
Green screen is a cool technique and it makes movies magical. Everyone knows the special effects and stunts in movies like The Avengers and Spiderman were created using green screen or blue screen backgrounds and computers. Those same digital tools are available in almost all video-editing software and...
When you're shooting footage next to a gigantic green wall, it's not unusual to have some of that green unintentionally fall on your subject. In this segment we show you how to remove the green using keylight, spill suppressor, and curves in After Effects, as well as...
Videomaker has released a free guide to setting up your own green screen, How to Make a DIY Green Screen: Backgrounds and Software for Green Screen. This useful report is a one-stop guide to materials, software, backgrounds, and everything else that you need to create a do-it-yourself green screen...
With the advent of YouTube and inexpensive HD camcorders, pretty much anyone who wants to be a movie director can be one. But for the aspiring Spielberg or Cameron producers who wish to beef up their vids, well, using a green screen is hard to discount. The idea of...
