Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Green Screen Production: Ep 106: DSLR | Video Skills with Rich Harrington: Adorama Photography TV

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Green Screen Production: Ep 106: DSLR | Video Skills with Rich Harrington: Adorama Photography TV

www.adorama.com Adorama Photography TV Presents DSLR | Video Skills with Rich Harrington. Join Rich as he explains the essentials of green screen production. Follow along as he walks you through the steps from lighting, testing, to keying in post production. When preparing to record a subject in front of a green screen, it is important to find the correct lighting and backdrop. Once you have the green screen set and a test subject lit, you are ready to record and key your new background in post-production In this episode, Rich demonstrates several techniques to keying in Adobe After Effects. AdoramaTV features talented hosts including Mark Wallace, Gavin Hoey, Joe McNally, Joe DiMaggio, Tamara Lackey, Bryan Peterson, and Rich Harrington. Related Products Adobe Master Collection CS6 Software www.adorama.com www.adorama.com Westcott Green Screen Digital Photo Kit www.adorama.com Westcott Green Screen Lighting Kit with Software www.adorama.com Matthews 6' x 6' Green Screen www.adorama.com Cool-Lux Chroma Key Chameleon Blue/Green Screen www.adorama.com Matthews 6' x 6' Blue Screen www.adorama.com Sunbounce SunScrim Butterfly Seamless Textile www.adorama.com Westcott Photo Basics 40" 5-in-1 Collapsible Reflector www.adorama.com Westcott Background Support System with 2 Stand www.adorama.com Linco Cross Bar for Background Support www.adorama.com JTL B-1030 Background Support System www.adorama.com Sunbounce Sandbag www.adorama.com Manfrotto G100 Sand Bag Weight for Boom and ...
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25 comments:

  1. A little bit of confusion from 5:49, he was talking about using a placeholder and in the video there was a subject. It looked like there had to be another clip there but was skipped.

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  2. Very good video. I hope you'll give later some examples (and tips) for music video applications, when you have to frame a whole body standing and moving (or dancing) in front of a green fabric. Thank you!! :)

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  3. Excellent walkthru. Showing both the on-set and post sides is very helpful.

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  4. Richard HarringtonMay 2, 2012 at 4:12 AM

    DVCPRO, XDCAM, REDD, ARRI

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  5. Thanks for the information, I will give all of those things a try. What type of camera system would be best for green screen? If I have a big project come up I'd like to rent a camera that can produce easily key-able footage so I don't have to spend a lot of time trying to pull a good key.

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  6. thanks.. but how would you deal with the feet area, there wont be any distance there, causes me some trouble there, and to get rid of all shadows in that area is kind of dificult.. should i trust my software there?

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  7. Richard HarringtonMay 2, 2012 at 4:53 AM

    Footage might be too compressed. Can try using an external recorder and go to less compressed codec. Check menu settings and make sure you are recording at highest quality. Can also try lowering frame rate to 24.

    Also, try color correcting first and boost vibrance or saturation prior to key.

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  8. Richard HarringtonMay 2, 2012 at 5:19 AM

    Use a curved cyc wall, or have them stand on fabric. You'll also need more light to fill in the shot.

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  9. more lights... or power to lights...

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  10. Well presented.
    

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  11. nice.. how would you light for a full body shot in green screen??

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  12. Very Nice ! Thanks

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  13. Best tutorial yet! Thanks

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  14. I have an issue with keying I hope you can help me with. I shoot on a 60D and edit in After Effects. I light the same way you did in the video, and don't see any spill on my subject. When I go to key the footage I lose lots of skin tone and hair color information, and I have to roll the white clip back to about 60 to get a good matte. I tried the green channel blur but it blurs the entire image. The only way I have been able to get a good key is to use an alpha matte. Any suggestions?

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  15. Test keying could save me hours of work in post - thanks!

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  16. Antonio RodriguezMay 2, 2012 at 10:34 AM

    great tutorial. thanks

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  17. I guess Rich has a time machine, File Date Modified, Tomorrow

    o_O

    Thanks for the tutorial!

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  18. Excellent!

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  19. Thanks for the great tutorial, Richard :)

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  20. wow !!!! Rich that was awesome....

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  21. Thanks for this tutorial. For advance green screen keying I would advise the advance soft keying tutorial at videocopilot

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  22. Very well done tutorial. Thanks also to Adorama for making these available.

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  23. Great Job Rich, awesome videos as always from you!

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  24. Great tutorial, very straight forward and informative.

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