EDF Greenscreen

Talking a little about my latest project, and my greenscreen.

Greenscreen effects

I have been asked by some people how I did my latest video.  I thought I would post some of the answers about my greenscreen process here also.

Please know that I am not an expert in this field (yet), and I do not have all the answers. Here is how I do it though:

1) I designed my “set” in photoshop. I used a resolution of 300dpi, and made the size 640px X 480px, this is the perfect resolution (I have found so far) for internet video viewing.

2) I filmed my greenscreen footage. I use a Casio, Exilim 7.2 Megapixel digital camera which has movie recording capability.

3) I edit my film in Magix Movie Edit Pro 14, which is a nice compositing software. It is within this software that I composite my greenscreen, and place it “against” my “set” graphic. It is within this software that I also add my music, sound effects, and any other animations that I need. Once I am satisfied with the project, I import it to Windows Media, and upload it to the internet!

While I have made the process sound extremely simple, it does take a lot of time to do. I am still learning, and experimenting everyday. I just got a new “rotoscoping” software that I am playing around with. Rotoscoping is the process by which the movie “Through a scanner darkly” was made. It is a process of painting over the existing film, to make an animation. I am playing around with it now.

When you set up a greenscreen, you need to have the brightest green possible. I am using a fabric which is almost a neon green. The entire trick to greenscreening successfully is the color of the green, your lighting, and contrast. Notice the colors I am wearing in my video. They are as far removed from the green spectrum as I can possibly get. I also wear no green item. If I were to want to wear, or use green items, then I would have to do a whitescreen instead of green. You can do greenscreen, whitescreen, bluescreen, and blackscreen. It all depends on what you are trying to do. If I were to wear a green item, like a green jacket, and act in front of the greenscreen, when I do the composite process, my green jacket would not be visable, and I would look transparent. Same with white clothes on whitescreen, and so on.

I hope this helps you!

Dan
“Remain true to yourself always!”

You can view my latest video here: //www.dragonbrusher.com-a.googlepages.com/dragonbrushert.v