Working with Green Screen Effects...............

[Scott]

Thought I'd share some small clips of what I've been working on lately. Painted a Green Screen our basement wall.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFOekklMbaA

[peter johnson]

That's amazing fun --
If you're in YouTube, check out the 80 or so posts for coloradohomemovies -- Back in the '80's, blue screen/green screen effects involved machines costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.  We only were able to use ours because someone donated an older $200,000.00 setup to the station.  Check up the windup monster toys in the background on "Live From Monster Island", or the cheesy street scenes in "Crusin' Live From Longmont", etc. etc.  Yeah, we put it to good use . . . of course, we used it to create disembodied talking heads, invisible doors, flying effects, etc. etc. -- any cheesy thing you could think of using it for, we did. 
peter johnson/denny crane

[Scott]

The things that any individual person can do these days is amazing.

I'll look at the things you mentioned when I get the chance. Thanks.

[Scott]

Finally took the time to find a way to download Youtube video onto the computer and use it with the green screen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3xpEPKLOjk

[Bear]

The thing I have always found most difficult with chromakey is controlling "spill"... it shows up everywhere, faint green reflections in people's glasses, vaguely nauseated skin color... horrible.  It takes a lot of light to keep the foreground from being adversely affected.