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Greenscreen Made Easy

by: Hanke, Jeremy

Greenscreen Made Easy

by: Hanke, Jeremy

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9781932907544
ISBN 10:
1932907548
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 04/01/2009
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions

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Now you can have all the visual power and punch previously reserved for the George Lucases of the world. Low-cost technology can make your no-bucks budget look like a million dollars if you know how to use it correctly.

Acknowledgments	p. x
What is Chromakeying?	p. 1
To Buy or to Build a Greenscreen	p. 7
Popular Options for Purchasing a Greenscreen	p. 10
Rolled cloth backdrop and stand	p. 10
Portable flexscreens	p. 11
Cutting edge: Chromatte	p. 12
Building Your Own Greenscreen	p. 15
Creating greenscreens with rolled paper	p. 15
Painted greenscreens using walls, flats, and foam core	p. 16
Creating and hanging your own cloth backdrop	p. 17
The portable vinyl greenscreen	p. 18
Combining elements to create a cyclorama greenscreen studio	p. 21
Getting Your Background Environments	p. 24
Photography and videography	p. 24
Digital matte paintings	p. 25
3D rendering	p. 26
Multilayered composites	p. 26
Public domain	p. 27
Internet and negotiation	p. 27
Stock backgrounds	p. 28
Lighting Your Matte for Maximum Keying Simplicity	p. 29
Positioning your lights effectively	p. 33
Types of lighting	p. 35
Additional lighting elements to make your colors "pop"	p. 37
Lighting and Positioning Your Talent for Optimal Blending	p. 41
Preplanning the lighting to blend between foreground and background planes	p. 41
Different types of lighting for your foreground	p. 42
Placement of the actor and other blocking considerations	p. 44
Tricks to popping your talent from the background	p. 44
Camera Techniques for Clean Keys	p. 46
Optimal distance and behavior of your camera	p. 46
Setting up your camera for great keys	p. 47
Creating High-Definition footage with a Standard-Definition camera	p. 49
Production Ideas for Creative Greenscreen Uses	p. 51
The invisible man	p. 51
Sin City makeup	p. 52
Luma Keying	p. 52
Shooting flame or smoke	p. 52
Stop-motion animation	p. 53
Production Rules to Shoot By	p. 54
16 rules to shoot by	p. 54
5 things to prep your talent with for optimal shoots	p. 59
Keying Essentials	p. 61
Great keying techniques vs. good storytelling	p. 61
Prepare Your Footage	p. 63
Check pixel aspect ratio/frame aspect ratio	p. 64
Deinterlace your fields	p. 65
Deinterlacing fields in After Effects	p. 67
Third-party solutions for dealing with fields	p. 68
Denoise and deartifact	p. 69
Reducing noise per channel	p. 70
The Remove Grain filter in After Effects	p. 70
Better monitoring with a second comp viewer	p. 72
Third-party solutions for reducing noise	p. 72
Check your edges	p. 73
Smoothing edges with Channel Combiner and Channel Blur in After Effects	p. 73
Third-party solutions for smoothing jaggy edges	p. 76
Even out your greenscreen	p. 76
Third-party solutions for evening out your greenscreen	p. 76
Save an animation pre-set of your pre-process effects	p. 77
Garbage mattes (aka junk mattes)	p. 78
Making garbage mattes in Adobe After Effects	p. 78
Making garbage mattes in Apple Final Cut Pro	p. 80
Third-party options for garbage matte creation in Apple Final Cut Pro	p. 81
Making garbage mattes in Apple Motion	p. 81
Getting to Know the Keyers	p. 83
An overview of some keying plug-ins in Adobe After Effects	p. 83
Your basic Color Key	p. 83
Color Difference Keyer	p. 84
Luma Key	p. 86
Inner/Outer Keys	p. 87
An Overview of Some Third-Party Plug-ins: Keying Plug-ins for After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and Motion	p. 89
The Foundry Keylight	p. 89
Red Giant Software Primatte Keyer Pro	p. 92
Oak Street Software VKey2	p. 96
Useful shortcuts for working with channels in Apple Motion	p. 98
Digital Film Tools zMatte	p. 99
Mastering the Art of Keying	p. 102
Aharon Rabinowitz's Super Tight Junk Mattes	p. 102
Multiple edge masks	p. 104
The multiple edge mask technique in After Effects	p. 106
Automatically cycle mask colors in After Effects	p. 109
Color correction	p. 109
Color correction in Apple Final Cut Pro	p. 109
Third-party options for color correction	p. 110
Fixing Problems	p. 112
Hair and fur and other tough-to-key edges	p. 112
Matte tools	p. 112
Third-party matte tools	p. 113
Removing tracking dots	p. 114
Spill and despill	p. 115
Spill suppression in After Effects	p. 115
Third-party options for spill suppression	p. 116
Keying motion-blurred footage	p. 116
Third-party options for keying motion-blurred footage	p. 117
Making Your Composite Look Believable	p. 118
Matching grain	p. 118
Matching grain in After Effects	p. 118
Light wrap	p. 118
Light angle	p. 122
Depth of field	p. 122
Reintroducing reflections	p. 123
Creating shadows	p. 125
Third-party solutions for projecting shadows	p. 126
Adding motion blur back into the video	p. 126
Cool Tricks and Inspiration
Dancing clothes, aka the invisible man	p. 127
Red lips, gray face	p. 127
Key smoke and fire? Not! or How to remove a black background from fire, explosions, smoke, window cracks, etc.	p. 128
Replace television or computer screens	p. 129
The Sin City Conundrum: Blending 3D backgrounds with keyed footage	p. 130
Choosing a 3D software that meets your needs	p. 130
Creating 3D backgrounds in 3D software	p. 133
Rendering your backgrounds correctly	p. 133
3D Channel Effects in After Effects	p. 136
Depth matte effect: placing your greenscreen shot within your 3D	p. 136
Depth of field with .rpf files	p. 137
Matching your 3D and footage	p. 138
The Future of Low-Budget Keying	p. 139
Conclusion	p. 141
Resource List	p. 143
Glossary	p. 145
About the Authors	p. 157
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