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#1 Jerry Big Mac

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Posted 22 April 2008 - 03:21 PM

I have Creator Suite 10.   I videoed on a green screen, but can't figure out how to put the background in.

Can anybody help me get started?  The tutorial and book are no help. I want to learn to do this myself.

#2 ggrussell

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Posted 22 April 2008 - 03:39 PM

Add the background to the Main track.
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Add the video with green screen to the overlay.  Select the overlay and choose View/Settings.  In the drop down list, select Chroma Key.  
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Click on the first color patch and select the eye dropper. Move it to your overlay and click on the GREEN part.  That selects the color.  Adjust the brightness tolernace, spread and hue tolerance as needed to make all of the green go away. You can select additional colors if you have a difficult time with just one color chosen.
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Edited by ggrussell, 22 April 2008 - 03:49 PM.

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Posted 18 May 2008 - 10:13 AM

ggrussell,

Great tutorial- thank you. I have one problem though- I don't see any boxes for additional colors under the primary color box, to tweak any overbleed. Any ideas? I'm running EMC9: Build 900B88F. Thanks for any help....

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Posted 18 May 2008 - 11:02 AM

Hmmm... I could have sworn V9 had those.   As you can see, my example is also a good example of how NOT to hang the background or light it. LOL  There are too many wrinkles and 'draped folds' near the corners.  The background really needed to be as flat as possible and lit more evenly.  And the person could have been standing farther away from it, but we had very limited room to work. All in all, it worked  OK, but not perfectly.
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Posted 18 May 2008 - 11:26 AM

QUOTE (HRPufnstuf65 @ May 18 2008, 01:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
ggrussell,

Great tutorial- thank you. I have one problem though- I don't see any boxes for additional colors under the primary color box, to tweak any overbleed. Any ideas? I'm running EMC9: Build 900B88F. Thanks for any help....


I have both EMC 9 and EMC 10 on my computer, and I don't get the additional boxes in EMC 9 but do get them in EMC 10.  I do know that some folks do get them in EMC 9.

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