How NOT to do a Bluescreen

[AndrewMcWeatherwax]

thanks man

[sueme5]

btw...i gave your video 5 stars and have subscribed.

[sueme5]

WOW...you are super smart!! thanks for the video! keep up the good work. i hope you have a great day.

[santy091]

so nice man!

[Papalucasmex]

Thank you, very clear and very illustrative.

[madmomentsgo]

good advice.

[fellythekid]

wait were you kidding about about the Thailand Monks?

[cantbeliveitshuman]

yes, yes he was, why would monks make bluescreens? lol

[Netzuki]

just dont listen to this guy! it doesnt matter what shade it is for video? are you insane? if it has any red in it your gonna start keying flesh tones. use green with no red or blue in it for the best results.

[zaphodchak]

Surely he omitted the part about not using a red screen by mistake. He must've meant any shade of green or blue (though as you point out, ones that reflect less red light will work better).

[Saggmos95]

Dude.........you're gay.....

[TheAmigops]

lol loser

[tbonepearson]

Nice work!

[skaplan1995]

grey screen?

[joshua25071994]

Thoose screens are avialable in ever color. So it´s possible, that he had choosen a grey scrren think

[skaplan1995]

well green is the optimal color for normal colors. I tried red and there WAS A DEATHLY AMOUNT OF GRAIN.

[zaphodchak]

I once played with a white screen (long time ago) trying a luma key (as opposed to chroma key) and the results were horrible. It's probably not the best option.

[marjamada]

Nicely done, thank you. Lumakey - what a great idea. Your blue screen (looked gray to me) was the un-bluest screen I've seen, but the results, Sir Knight, show that you are right - you can use any color you want, as long as it's not one that the subject also has. Your knight costume apparently worked well, because the effect looks good. Remember that movie where the actress has a huge hole in her tummy, achieved by sticking a circle of cloth there the same color as the chroma screen? Fun!

[gamefreak1109]

my blue colored wallpaper DOES come in handy!

[NextLifeDK]

More than a year old and still grear and informative. Thanks

[WhySoSerious41]

Great

[Juhsayngul]

Lol Part 1 of 1

[cameronschmucker]

How not to shoot video: don't use autofocus ; )

[jerome1127]

Hi Kyle, that was very informative and entertaining. Thanks!

[CrazySean]

Blue screening looks kind of cheesy with stills, in my opinion.

[everiomans2]

I'm pretty good when it comes to this stuff - but i watched your vid anyway to see if i could pick up anything new. i didn't -lol but i was impressed by the way you presented the tutorial and the way you spoke about the craft. probably the best tutorial on screening on you-tube.

[KWDproductions]

Thanks for your comments. It's greatly appreciated!

[pavel89l]

I LIKE GREEN SCREEN

[bgplotsdotcom]

you are the man Kyle ;)

[PropheticallyPoetic]

Good DIY video!

[fiftycaliberfistfuck]

I found cheap florescent tube lights are cheap and more diffused and safer to work with. Those halogen work lights get very hot, suck major expensive wattage, cast shadows, and are too bright too look at. You can buy them at home depot for $10 a unit, and a few bucks per unit for tubes bought in a box of 20. You can hang them veritcally on the walls, or place them any way you like, and they crank out a lot of light.

[gerbman2004]

i actually tried the website before you actually said it was a sheet lol

[FF911]

Hahahaha, like spongebob said....

"Immmmaaaaginnation"

[mavamaarten]

or dutch :

Fantazzzieee!

[andrebjm]

can bluescreen work with a webcam?

[gijowi2]

You can chromakey with any footage, however if yuo use poor footage, you will get poor results. It would be likely be unusable for anything practical, but you could try it just to have a look at the process of chromakeying

[Glennz995]

tailand? a bit expensive?

[MovieMakas9294]

ahah yea idk if u watched but he was jk

[gijowi2]

Couple of corrections:

The hue and saturation of the blue or green screen does make a difference to the overall key. If the color screen is not 100% Green, Blue, or Red you will lose valuable color data in the foreground. This is due to the fact that all digital colors are made up of a Red Green and Blue channel of data, if you a color that fits into one channel, you do not effect the other colors in you image. Not to say that it can't be done with off colors,the key will just not be as nice

[gijowi2]

-Also with turning the camera 90 degrees, If using a camera with interlaced footage, you may get a strange vertical combing atifact on moving foreground objects. Unless you plan to deinterlace in post.

-Luma key (both dark and light) is generally used for non human, keys, such as filming explosions, smoke and skyreplacements or if you need a silhouette of the foreground character. IT WILL (most of the time) NOT GIVE YOU BETTER RESULTS FOR KEYING PEOPLE

[gijowi2]

Other tips:

- Dont use Auto Exposure. If you use auto exposure and you have a moving forground person or object, the camera will adjust the exposure to compensate for how much shadows are in the image. This will mean the background will change its brightness constently and make it very difficult to key.

[gijowi2]

- When setting up your lighting for foreground image, you need to reference the background you are going to put behind, so you know what angles the lights are coming from, and where shadows should be. Otherwise it will be a very unbelievable key.

[gijowi2]

- Keep as fireground as far away from background as possible, the further the better. As it will eliminate spill and shadows. If possible have the background out of focus, as it will hide any blemishes in the background, making an easier key.

Thats all i can be bothered typing at the moment, it was very rushed

[RET80]

There still seems to be some hint of shadow within the matte.

May I suggest using indirect illumination with Styrofoam with high wattage lamps, that should get rid of every little last bit of shadow from head to toe.

[tigerchen80]

i found this very helpful when i build my first chroma keys. thx

[pinkpig8]

wow very helpful video, thanks a lot!

[djslim112]

This is a great video! Thanks it was really helpful!

[7677890]

What software? I tried Jahshaka, but it is not yet reliable enough.

[00WhiteAces00]

Can you have a Black "Blue Screen"

Because it would prevent shadows no?

[shutchapiehole]

I think the reason for blue and green is that there's no blue or green pigment in human skin so it's easy to key out the background but not the subject... (note: avoid blue and green clothing or props when using blue/green screens)... with a black screen, black hair would be a problem... apart from that, maybe it's fine... Try it and report back : )

[Jakemmx]

Interesting idea for the shadows, but you also have shadows on your face and most people and clothes have too many dark areas to work well I think (not just skin color... pupils, most hair (facial as well), nostrils, mouth, etc

[vdogg89]

black is horrible for this. your skin has a lot of black in it which will create problems

[RET80]

You can do black screen. It's not really recommended however.

A good example of this is in the movie Labyrinth. There is a scene of puppetry where they actually had to use black screening for. So it does exist. I use it for pyrotechnics. Since the lens of the camera will be set to be VERY tiny so it can see the explosion, everything else around it is PURE black, thus making a black screen very exceptional to use.

[00WhiteAces00]

Thanks for the help - The explosion idea may be handy.

i tend to use green screen normally - but thanks for the input :)

[dangale]

Some nice points there, but I'd advise against using a red or pink creen if you're filming human beings with red or pink skin. This is why blue and green are used, it's not a colour you find in any great amount on human skin.

[triplescience]

lol I-RON hahaha

[papabroon42]

Thanks for the tips buddy was really informative. Good work.

[Met182]

Interesting tip with the bedsheet suggestion!

Hadn't thought about that!

Cool vid, liked your joke about getting the cloth from the monks LOL.

[winxqueen]

am i aloud to paint my room a blue screen? if not...its too late xD

[l3inaryl3urnout]

yeah great presenting style, i also like the way you say "iron"

[mknightfilms]

thats a good natural presenting style. well done.

[CrotchShower]

I like the Vote Democrat sticker that you got there in your garage :)

[stuartwarner]

Nice one Kyle - useful thank you

[kfmole]

Eye-ron

[MariosTackle]

u could be a lecture .. or maybe sell ur DVDs

[jittwoi]

chill out with god man, and by the way its best to use blue and green screen because those colours have the biggest contrast with human skin, if you use pink screens as you suggested in your previous video then youll get a lot of spillage, just a little correction. i got kinda dissapointed how you didnt show how the letus and the lens and the base all get put together since its all i wanted to see haha

[deadbee1]

nice one

[ne014x]

You don't want to use a red screen unless it a true red screen. Red is too close to skin tones on some people, it makes it incredibly hard to key

[uth3rdoul]

Great advice... particularly about the portrait camera-rotation trick. I'll definitely try some of the ideas here. I look forward to more tutorial videos from you, thanks!

[akshaymusik]

loooooolllll!!!

"if you get an eye-run, and just eye-run it out..."

lool!!

[ZodiacKilah]

nice accent

[twoneil]

I notice that most of today's movies are done with green screen more often than blue screen. Do you get a better image from green screen than any other colors?

[strongmike]

wikipedia it, it has quite a good explanation

[irishpants]

you can basically chroma key (aka green screening) any color out of your background. chroma green and blue are the easiest to get results from, plus the industry standard and most professional NLEs will have a key to automatically account for that specific color. blue screens bring out red colors better.

[mikedale14]

Brilliant advice. I heard on another video also that you shouldn't use white or black.

Why is this?

Cheers =]

[ne014x]

Well Look at his shirt and his hair. If you key out a color it removes all of the black, regardless of where it is, and about white If you are well light then you will have white tones in your skin that will be removed.

[jammany2k]

~I SPY A CANADIAN!!!

[twoneil]

US is not America. Thats all. cheers.

[jamesmarson]

Very useful and well presented, thanks!

[twisted2006]

omg.."ireeen" "and Iren it out" wtf? IRON lol

[mrpeeman]

Lol yeah, ireen your cloth and it will be good. But other than that :P It was cool, now i know how u do that hting with diff bakgrounds, i have an ok digital camera so i will try it out sometimes, the only thing is i need to find out how to add a diff background but im sure ill find it out on google, i hope to produce some random shit from it :)

[fruitmousse]

I know little about film making and blue screens, but this was very interesting to watch - good work.

Fm

[DirectorOli]

ok my bad i commented while he said about the tai land cloth so i commented while i watched, and when i posted he said its a bed cloth so my bad, and as i was saying its a bit pale

[DirectorOli]

wtf monks! im not ringing up tai land and saying can i have one of your blue cloths for blue screen and besides isnt your one to pale to work

[WiAmp]

Hi my name is Wichard from Augsburg Bavaria,

im very interrested in your informative Videos.

I have a HVX200 and a VX2100. You could check some of my videos here on youtube. I have to try a bluescreen myself. biggup yourself !

[sephy22]

hey great video!! i've just been working on a screen of my own :)..

and just one thing that i would disagree on, i heard on another video why it's green and blue, it's cause that those are the two colors that are farthest from skin tones. so yes you can use any color, but just to be safe, you should use true green or blue..

but great vid dude :)

[KWDproductions]

Yes, that is true. I forgot to mention that in the video. What I was trying to communicate was the fact that any colour can be keyed - although other colours may not be best for the given situation. Glad you liked the video. Thanks for your comments.

[mrxtreme45]

green is better to use

[Olphus]

Wow, there was some info I had never picked out before. This is going to save so much time!!

[christianlogic]

Kyle, you're really getting good at these episodes. I'm learning a lot and it's entertaining.

[leonaprime01]

Excellent vid. Very informative, and I love your humor. I was just getting ready to look up those Thai monks. :P