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Getting the best chroma key from green screen

by Will Head on 18 June 2010 in Video

Okay, you’ve shot your green-screen footage, but there’s still a lot of work to do in terms of de-interlacing and chroma keying for the best results. In the last column, we looked at shooting footage against a plain green screen, which can then be replaced on your Mac with a completely different background. This sort [...]

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Create a green screen for adding special effects to your videos

by Will Head on 28 May 2010 in Video

Once the preserve of blockbuster movies, green screens are becoming an increasingly popular tool. Here’s how to set up your own. Green screen effects may have once been the preserve of big-budget Hollywood movies, but chroma key, as it’s also known, is increasingly cropping up in places you wouldn’t expect to see it. Take a [...]

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