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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

GREAT tips for shooting a good blue/greenscreen

General Specialist - Tips, Tricks and Tinkerings: Greenscreen and Bluescreen Checklist

An extensive list of tips and guidelines for a successful greenscreen shoot - everything from camera settings (turn down/off that sharpening!), the benefits of 4:4:4 over 4:2:2 over 4:1:1, lighting, blue vs. green, standoff distances, masking, tracker markers, etc.

If you have a greenscreen shoot and aren't an expert, a really nice read.

Thanks to Jonas (the writer) for sending in the link.

If you find something on the web that you think I might not know of or find that will be of interest to the readership here, always feel free to drop me an email at mike at hdforindies d0t com.

-mike

UPDATE: MoreDSC "Greenscreen shooting/lighting tips"

Posted by: Mike Curtis / 10/25/2006 10:15:00 AM

Comments:

How on earth do you find all this stuff? Great tips in there.

Michael Horton
lafcpug
http://www.lafcpug.org

# posted by

Anonymous : Wed Oct 25, 11:46:00 AM CST

Michael -

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The Mysteries of My Powers shall not be revealed...

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: )

# posted by

Mike Curtis : Wed Oct 25, 11:50:00 AM CST

Hey, those are great!

I even validated some of my own discoveries I've experimented with - like shooting vertically with an anamorphic camera when you have a standing shot.

Wish I wasn't limited to DV at the moment...

# posted by

Eric Peacock : Wed Oct 25, 01:54:00 PM CST

I'll add an hdforindies exclusive add-on tip:

beige is green. Doesn't seem like it's green to your eye... but once you start keying... surprise!

# posted by

theNEWhappybirthdaysong : Wed Oct 25, 06:45:00 PM CST

quick addendum to say it CONTAINS a lot of green meaning i absorbs green very very quickly and will then key out in place very fast. unlike colors based on red and blue for example.

# posted by

Anonymous : Wed Oct 25, 06:52:00 PM CST

That sounds like one of those hard earned lessons - like pointing at your own neck and saying

"See this scar here? That's why I don't do that anymore."

-mike

# posted by

Mike Curtis : Wed Oct 25, 07:12:00 PM CST

LOL, mike....

"see all these bezier curves here! Well THAT's what you're gonna be seeing a lot more of if you use that ligth beige. It's called ROTOSCOPE and you don't want it."

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

GREAT tips for shooting a good blue/greenscreen