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Posted by Ty Ford on 06/02/07 13:28
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 00:06:33 -0400, nobody special wrote
(in article <1180670793.211499.56770@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>):
> You can find out a lot by going to sites like videouniversity and
> DV.com and checking their archived articles, forums and threads on the
> subject. Frankly, your room is probably too small for chromakeying
> anything but a close-up head and shoulders shot. It will also get
> stifling hot in minutes unless you add ventilation fans which are
> noisy, or use flourescent lighting. To do chromakey right you need the
> background lit very evenly all over, and no shadows thrown on it by
> the talent. Then you light the talent separately, so the style and
> look of his lighting match the new background to be inserted. The
> small size of your room limits how well you can do this. You can try
> shooting diagonally across the room to get a little more separation (I
> would say six feet easy between you and the wall, then add six feet or
> so for the distance between talent and camera), or even open the door
> and put the camera out into the next room to get the distance you
> need. If you try to sit or stand right next to the cloth or paper
> backdrop, your results will stink.
>
> Don't waste your money on the LED based ringlight chromakeying system,
> that thing works but will cost you many times more than simple paint
> or cloth, and it has other problems in certain situations.
>
I've seen reflecmedia's system work very nicely. Everything has a problem in
certain situations. Your caveats above prove this is true for "old school"
implementations. The reflecmedia demo was pretty astounding. R&R lighting in
Silver Spring hosted it. They were also impressed.
We were standing 2-3 feet in front of the screen. Shadows were not a problem.
Seeing reflections of the blue or green LEDs in the on camera talent
eyeglasses was possible with ECU, but not so much otherwise.
We didn't need a 12-15 foot deep stage. We didn't need to light the
screen...at all.
Regards,
Ty Ford
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