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Geek Culture / Blue screen program? [Chromakeying]

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David R
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Posted: 7th Jan 2005 21:23
I'm looking for a program that will quickly emulate the effect of blue-screen on photo's [where the blue is removed from the image, and replaced by another image] does anyone know of any programs that do this?

[that are CHEAP! 'Cinematte' for Adobe Photoshop 6 is $99 - and its crap, well ,the demo is]

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BatVink
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Posted: 7th Jan 2005 22:41
I'm looking around myself. You basically need a chroma filter for any art package that accepts plug-ins.

You might find one somewhere in this lot, I haven't yet though...

PSP plugins

By the way, green is a "cleaner" colour for chroma keying, even more so if the image is from a video camera.

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bitJericho
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Posted: 7th Jan 2005 23:03
for photo's? If it's just for photos, isn't it easy enough in photoshop to select all the blues in the image and remove them, and use the layer underneath to add your background layer?

I could see needing to buy something to do this for videos, cuz that technique above would take *forever*...


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Dom
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Posted: 8th Jan 2005 18:48
I know of 2 free ones... take your pick. The first is Axogon. It is a free beta version of the commercial Mainvision. It can be found at www.blenderwars.com in the downloads section. The otehr one whci I would go for is Zwei-Stein. Made by thugs at bay. I cant remember the address but its something like www.thugsatbay.com. Or just do a google.

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indi
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Posted: 8th Jan 2005 19:12
I dont know of many in the pc software expect for maybe matrox related products or adobe premieire. virtual dub comes to mind but thats a freeware version and may have a plugin, who knows.

I do know this for good keying

keep the stage 15 or feet if you can from the screen itself or just enough to hide shadows.

3 good tungsten lights for like $15 each at a warehouse/hardware shop make for a great setup.

DVCAMS using either blue or green or alpha channel mattes from DV footage have a harder time getting the correct key.
eg the fluffy stuff near the actor or object your keying.

shake by apple has two industry standard keying application tool components that allow you to do great keying in both the green abd blue spectrums as well as combining them together. try this link i think http://www.apple.com/shake/quicktour/keying.html

getting a good key is a tricky process but its all about a clean line and no shadows on your key areas.

the lighting for the actor/object has to be setup for the scene your dropping them into,

good keying takes a few goes to get it correct.

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Mattman
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Posted: 9th Jan 2005 10:29
AVI Edit. Google it.

Hi
David R
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Posted: 11th Jan 2005 21:33
Yes- for photos, but thoasands of photos. I create animated films using claymation, and I have 56,000 photos to edit!

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bitJericho
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Posted: 11th Jan 2005 22:50
Quote: "Yes- for photos, but thoasands of photos. I create animated films using claymation, and I have 56,000 photos to edit!"


that's what I was wondering..

Adobe Premier is quite good, I've played around with it, but I dunno if it does bluescreens or not


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David R
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Posted: 27th Jan 2005 21:31
Finally.... a solution:

I bought Adobe AferAffects online a couple of days ago - man is that chromakeying good!!

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