http://www.filmdailies.com/archives/hd-cam-quality/ Low/no budget filmmaker blogs daily on subjects like video production, HD cameras, screenwriting, etc. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:36:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.filmdailies.com/archives/hd-cam-quality/#comment-13455 Peter Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:10:44 +0000 http://www.filmdailies.com/?p=217#comment-13455 I've also experimented with homespun green-screening with varied success. One thing that I feel is worth mentioning is "spill". The farther away the screen is from the subject, the less of its color will spill back on the subject, the easier it will be to get a clean chroma-key effect. I ended up stretching a sheet of green rip-stop nylon on a giant wooden stretcher and setting it up a good distance away from the door in an experimental "portal to nowhere" shot, which seemed to have sated the Final Cut gods. I’ve also experimented with homespun green-screening with varied success. One thing that I feel is worth mentioning is “spill”. The farther away the screen is from the subject, the less of its color will spill back on the subject, the easier it will be to get a clean chroma-key effect. I ended up stretching a sheet of green rip-stop nylon on a giant wooden stretcher and setting it up a good distance away from the door in an experimental “portal to nowhere” shot, which seemed to have sated the Final Cut gods.

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