green or blue screen for vegas? at DVinfo.net

Chris Klidonas · August 8th, 2007, 02:51 PM

Curious which is a better option to chromakey in vegas? I was thinking the green may be better, but I would love to hear what success or problems people have had in the past, also if there are any great chroma keyers available at a reasonable price I would be interested in hearing that as well.

Thanks.

Edward Troxel · August 8th, 2007, 03:32 PM

I vote green!

Jon Fairhurst · August 8th, 2007, 03:39 PM

Unless you have a light green item in the foreground, go with green. It has a higher luminance level, so it's less noisy than blue.

We picked up a number of paint chips from Home Depot and filmed them under our screen lights. We then captured and put them on a waveform monitor. "Lime Green" was the brightest, most pure green for us. Sorry, I can't recall the brand, off hand...

Christian de Godzinsky · August 10th, 2007, 01:15 AM

Definitively green! Jon pointed out correclty the reason, the green luminance level is almost 4 times higher than blue. Go blue only if your object contains green colors that cannot be removed :)

Christian

August 8th, 2007, 02:51 PM	#1
Chris Klidonas Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: NY, NY Posts: 129	green or blue screen for vegas? Curious which is a better option to chromakey in vegas? I was thinking the green may be better, but I would love to hear what success or problems people have had in the past, also if there are any great chroma keyers available at a reasonable price I would be interested in hearing that as well. Thanks.

August 8th, 2007, 03:32 PM	#2
Edward Troxel Sponsor: JET DV Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 7,953	I vote green! __________________ Edward Troxel [SCVU] JETDV Scripts/Scripting Tutorials/Excalibur/Montage Magic/Newsletters

August 8th, 2007, 03:39 PM	#3
Jon Fairhurst Inner Circle Join Date: May 2006 Location: Camas, WA, USA Posts: 5,513	Unless you have a light green item in the foreground, go with green. It has a higher luminance level, so it's less noisy than blue. We picked up a number of paint chips from Home Depot and filmed them under our screen lights. We then captured and put them on a waveform monitor. "Lime Green" was the brightest, most pure green for us. Sorry, I can't recall the brand, off hand... __________________ Jon Fairhurst

August 10th, 2007, 01:15 AM	#4
Christian de Godzinsky Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Helsinki/Finland Posts: 131	Definitively green! Jon pointed out correclty the reason, the green luminance level is almost 4 times higher than blue. Go blue only if your object contains green colors that cannot be removed :) Christian __________________ The future does not exist - we must invent it !