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Is lighting a green screen necessary?
You'd probably want to light it anyway, as it will make it easier to pull a key if it's properly lit. The farther you can keep it away from the objects or talent you'll be keying, the better. But ...
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How to remove Tracker points from green screen footage
You don't need to use greenscreen. You need to track markers, and put your footage above the markers and greenscren. Just lock position on markers points.
Like in ...
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Wattage for green screen lightning
Wattage has nothing to do with lumens, as different instruments provide a wide spectrum of output lumens based on lamp type. For instance, a 1.2K HMI ArriLite would put out more light than a 5000W ...
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Best and easiest way to remove tracking markers from green screen video
You can do this quite easily without content-aware fill or anything like it. I'd tackle this by doing the following:
create a rough shape for each tracking-point (the color doesn't matter)
track each ...
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How to deal with reflections in a space helmet
The best thing you can do is get as much right on set as possible. Cover cast, crew, and equipment with black fabric, hide them behind black curtains, Get your talent as far away from the green ...
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Which of these two crude green screen lighting setups is better?
Well the 2nd is better. But the correct way is to light your Green Screen first, and you want to have it lit so it's a flat 70 IRE. You'll need a monitor with a Waveform option, and the waveform ...
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How to remove background from video without using green screen
Looking at your first example, I woul guess green screen, and not a particularly good one. It looks like they really need to increase the spill suppression, judging by the green spill evident on the ...
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Green screen Issue shooting with dslr (background green changes)
It doesnt really matter what type of lighting instruments you use, tungsten, hmi, led, flo, so long as you use the same color temperature lights to light the screen as you do to gauge the lighting of ...
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How to record a live video of yourself with a transparent background?
I really want to know how this gets automatically edited.
The technique is called chroma key and consists of considering as transparent all pixels of the colors within a specified range. This is ...
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DJI Osmo X3 vs Canon 5D Mk III for easier chroma green screen keying
The key to pulling a good key is a clean separation between key and subject. All things being equal, higher resolution will give a sharper edge between key and subject, which is good. But that's ...
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Is Blue screen a better choice than Green when shooting outdoor to reserve shadows?
With a good keyer it doesn't matter as much as it may have in the past, but in most cases green is the better choice. Which you choose depends more on where and with what content you do your keying. ...
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Can I achieve effective keying if I use green lights to illuminate a white wall?
My favorite quick, cheap, DIY greenscreen over the years is a gallon of chromakey paint and a sheet of drywall from Lowe’s or Home Depot. One sheet is enough for a seated, talking head, like you see ...
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Green screen without green screen
Yes, that is possible. What you're searching for is a difference matte / difference key. For that technique, you supply a base image and the program keys everything out that equals that image. So you ...
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How does green screening work with green objects?
For static shots they shoot what's called a background plate: the same scene shot from the same angle but without the foreground action. Then where the green is taken out the empty background shows ...
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Green Screen Streaming
There are several ways of achieving this.
Use a hardware solution. They are available from Datavideo or on most video switchers. Obviously, these cost money and the results are dependant on how well ...
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Green screen Issue shooting with dslr (background green changes)
DO NOT USE "AUTO". It is working against you. A nice, even video image of the green is needed. Setting your camera to "auto" just means that there is no single "formula" for which green to key out.
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Technical name for this? (PIP picture in picture with transparent background via green screen, chroma key)
The technical name for this is a "bug". Usually the context is that it's an advertisement for another show on the same network, or it's a network logo rather than part of the content.
I'm not very ...
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How to use chroma key to replace design of complex object?
What you are thinking about is a very great way to save production costs and is used in many cases on many sets. Here is what your pipeline would look like:
Shoot the footage with green tables
Track ...
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Using water as green screen
Take a look at using noise turbulence to displace the image. You can do this in after effects. There are lots of good tutorials on it. I recommend this one:
Maybe add ...
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Can I achieve effective keying if I use green lights to illuminate a white wall?
I think if you light the wall green, you will get lots of bounced light back onto your subject which will play havoc with your key. Amazon does very cheap greenscreens now, which work pretty well so ...
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Can I achieve effective keying if I use green lights to illuminate a white wall?
I interned at a company many years ago which used a retro-reflective background coupled with a green LED ring light, which surrounded the lens. The wall looked silver/white when the device wasn’t in ...
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Why does this clip go green and how do I fix it?
When Keylight acts that way, usually emptying the cache helps. If it doesn't help, just add a new adjustment layer to force everything render again.
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Why does this clip go green and how do I fix it?
This happens to me sometimes using Keylight. I find that if I make a tiny adjustment to the settings (holding down CMD and dragging on one of the controls (eg Screen Gain or Screen Balance), it ...
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Moving clip with green screen
Leave the color out and make a png out of it.
Then, create a sequenz which has the length of the bar you want.
Insert as many filmframes as you like.
Now simply draw masks around one frame each.
Put ...
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What are some Best Camera Settings for Recording for Chroma Keying and which color of cloth reflects least green color?
Lighting is the biggest factor in improving this setup. Move the subject further away from the sheet, use a lens that has a shallow depth of field so that any imperfections in the sheet are harder to ...
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Which of these two crude green screen lighting setups is better?
Neither are great options, you should have an extra light on the subject and side light with an overhead fill (third light).
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Which of these two crude green screen lighting setups is better?
As well as avoiding shadows, another reason you want to get the green screen as far away behind the talent as possible is to avoid any green spill. (that is, green color cast light being reflected off ...
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How to record a video with different background without having a green screen?
If it's a static shot, you can try using a difference matte. It doesn't work as well as a chroma key, but it might do the trick. The idea is you'll set up After Effects to key out everythi
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How to make YouTube video with screen projection in background?
I don't think you can achieve this on a live webcast with only a laptop. You will want either:
a dedicated PC with an I7 or better CPU, appropriate video hardware (Blackmagic capture card or ...
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Can I paint a rough wall with chromakey paint to make a green screen?
It depends on some factors.
For example, how far is the wall from the main actors? If you have some good spacing, the texture can probably blur out due to DOF. But as on a green screen you need to ...
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