Anyone using chroma keying with a blue screen with Movie Edit Pro 17 HD??

bagman wrote on 1/25/2011, 6:31 AM

I borowed a blue sceen from my bro who is using Adobe Premier and I can't get it working very well with Movie Edit Pro 17 HD. I tryed all kinds of lights and it really a drag. I'm Thinking, maybe I'll buy some Green poster paper and make a green screen. I tryed a large green table cloth and that didn't work well either. What did work best was a white sheet, but white is a common color so that no good. Any ideas?

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john-auvil wrote on 1/25/2011, 10:01 AM

I use the chroma-key a lot, and I can tell you lighting makes all the difference.

Shadows cause problems as well as bright spots, so the screen needs to have illumination as well as the subject being recorded.

I have two lights just on the screen, on opposite sides that uniformly illuminate the screen so there is on one bright spot. I use a green sheet; it is like microfiber or fleece. I have this hanging from a pole with as much of the wrinkles out as possible so no shadows are created.

I then use two lights on the subject so it also has no shadow. The subject needs to be some distance from the screen so the lights on the screen are not interfered with and allow the screen to remain stable...

This works rather well for me in that regard.

I prefer green over blue, as my subjects are less likely to wear green, and more likely to where blue.