Blue Screen

chipe88 · Post by **chipe88** » Thu May 01, 2003 5:24 pm

I have a blue screen but the thing is i don't have any software to edit it with. What would be a good software. And can i have some more stars?

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Thu May 01, 2003 9:33 pm

There are several simple blue-screen programs avaliable. The cheapest and most useful would probably be something like Videowave, although you can do Blue Screening in programs such as Premiere and Final Cut (better for editing but not so good for blue screening).

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Fri May 02, 2003 2:30 am

Yeah there are heaps of tutuorials around.

Like Ornsack and myself, the stars are earnt from being well posted and informative members.

Respect has to be earnt:P

padawanNick · Post by **padawanNick** » Sat May 03, 2003 3:03 am

I've heard that After Effects w/Production bundle does a good job with compositing.
I use Media Studio Pro and have been very happy with the results.
Loads of examples and some tutorials on my movie's site: HiddenPhantom.com

Have fun.

papasitopimp · Post by **papasitopimp** » Fri May 09, 2003 3:26 pm

after effects production bundle is sweet! works great, takes out all green spill with out even using more than one matte, best one ever

windog · Post by **windog** » Tue May 31, 2005 10:28 pm

ae keylight is the best.

robosays21 · Post by **robosays21** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 6:48 pm

chromantor

robosays21 · Post by **robosays21** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 6:48 pm

chromanator on fxhome.com

jaredcosta · Post by **jaredcosta** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 7:03 am

pinnacles cr**

windog · Post by **windog** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 7:32 am

yep. Just while we are talking about chroma, I am selling A cuople of new chroma screens if anyone is interested?

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 8:21 am

I tend to use Adobe Premiere Pro for all my masking. It isn't the strongest application, but it gets done what I need doing!

Grant, can I have another star too? PLEASE???

windog · Post by **windog** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 8:42 am

can prem do masking well?

TheJethro · Post by **TheJethro** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:02 am

It works but there are some deteriation around the objects infront. I havent used anything else for masking, but I'd say there has to be something better for it and is more meant for it then premiere is.

windog · Post by **windog** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:01 am

yes, after effects is the only thing i can think of.

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 9:27 am

Don't look only into After Effects though. There are several other very powerful compositing programs out there. Competatively, Combustion is another really good program.

windog · Post by **windog** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 2:41 pm

never heard of it. what it its main function?

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 7:12 pm

Does mainly the same stuff as After Effects, very similar in interface.

windog · Post by **windog** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:20 am

I see. what the price?

Raptor · Post by **Raptor** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:41 pm

Serious Magic's Ultra is an excelllent keying application. We use it almost exclusively now for all our keying for commercials and production on the TV show...

Clarence · Post by **Clarence** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:57 pm

Yes, very good program. It has some cool features, like shadows/reflections, etc.

jcdenton · Post by **jcdenton** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:05 pm

The main problem with blueboxing is the miniDV format. NTSC (4.1.1) and PAL (4.2.0) doesn't contain enough color information to mask things smoothly. you need to use DigiBeta instead, or HDV and then downssample it to NTSC/PAL to get 4.2.2 color resolution. If you once got that, any stupid little compositing app can do excellent results.

(Unfortunately) I am using MiniDV PAL. This means each block of 2*2 Pixels uses only one color information. On an interlaced frame the size of 2*2 pixels is in fact 2*4 Pixels! This BLOCK will be the finest resolution one may get for the matte line (outline) of the foreground footage. A very blocky outline.

BTW there's a lot of composition apps out there:
http://www.bakhter.com/html/video/video ... itors.html

jcdenton · Post by **jcdenton** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 5:06 pm

BTW. there are many good compositing apps of course. But unfortunately most of them are not for free. In fact I didn't find a satisfying App for free.

so I wrote my own tool some time ago. Here's an example, although resized to 50% of the original size:

If you can live with a not so userfriendly GUI then try it:
http://www.melog.ch/drgreen/

But of course, After Effects + Co are much better, so most people have no use for this my inhouse tool. Well I wonder how many ppl are using a warezed expensive apps. People have a diffrent understanding of the term nobudget".