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| Acknowledgments | |
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| What is Chromakeying? | |
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| To Buy or to Build a Greenscreen | |
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| Popular Options for Purchasing a Greenscreen | |
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| Rolled cloth backdrop and stand | |
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| Portable flexscreens | |
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| Cutting edge: Chromatte | |
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| Building Your Own Greenscreen | |
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| Creating greenscreens with rolled paper | |
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| Painted greenscreens using walls, flats, and foam core | |
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| Creating and hanging your own cloth backdrop | |
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| The portable vinyl greenscreen | |
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| Combining elements to create a cyclorama greenscreen studio | |
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| Getting Your Background Environments | |
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| Photography and videography | |
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| Digital matte paintings | |
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| 3D rendering | |
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| Multilayered composites | |
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| Public domain | |
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| Internet and negotiation | |
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| Stock backgrounds | |
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| Lighting Your Matte for Maximum Keying Simplicity | |
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| Positioning your lights effectively | |
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| Types of lighting | |
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| Additional lighting elements to make your colors "pop" | |
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| Lighting and Positioning Your Talent for Optimal Blending | |
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| Preplanning the lighting to blend between foreground and background planes | |
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| Different types of lighting for your foreground | |
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| Placement of the actor and other blocking considerations | |
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| Tricks to popping your talent from the background | |
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| Camera Techniques for Clean Keys | |
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| Optimal distance and behavior of your camera | |
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| Setting up your camera for great keys | |
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| Creating High-Definition footage with a Standard-Definition camera | |
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| Production Ideas for Creative Greenscreen Uses | |
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| The invisible man | |
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| Sin City makeup | |
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| Luma Keying | |
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| Shooting flame or smoke | |
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| Stop-motion animation | |
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| Production Rules to Shoot By | |
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| 16 rules to shoot by | |
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| 5 things to prep your talent with for optimal shoots | |
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| Keying Essentials | |
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| Great keying techniques vs. good storytelling | |
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| Prepare Your Footage | |
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| Check pixel aspect ratio/frame aspect ratio | |
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| Deinterlace your fields | |
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| Deinterlacing fields in After Effects | |
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| Third-party solutions for dealing with fields | |
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| Denoise and deartifact | |
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| Reducing noise per channel | |
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| The Remove Grain filter in After Effects | |
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| Better monitoring with a second comp viewer | |
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| Third-party solutions for reducing noise | |
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| Check your edges | |
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| Smoothing edges with Channel Combiner and Channel Blur in After Effects | |
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| Third-party solutions for smoothing jaggy edges | |
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| Even out your greenscreen | |
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| Third-party solutions for evening out your greenscreen | |
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| Save an animation pre-set of your pre-process effects | |
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| Garbage mattes (aka junk mattes) | |
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| Making garbage mattes in Adobe After Effects | |
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| Making garbage mattes in Apple Final Cut Pro | |
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| Third-party options for garbage matte creation in Apple Final Cut Pro | |
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| Making garbage mattes in Apple Motion | |
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| Getting to Know the Keyers | |
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| An overview of some keying plug-ins in Adobe After Effects | |
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| Your basic Color Key | |
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| Color Difference Keyer | |
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| Luma Key | |
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| Inner/Outer Keys | |
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| An Overview of Some Third-Party Plug-ins: Keying Plug-ins for After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and Motion | |
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| The Foundry Keylight | |
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| Red Giant Software Primatte Keyer Pro | |
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| Oak Street Software VKey2 | |
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| Useful shortcuts for working with channels in Apple Motion | |
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| Digital Film Tools zMatte | |
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| Mastering the Art of Keying | |
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| Aharon Rabinowitz's Super Tight Junk Mattes | |
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| Multiple edge masks | |
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| The multiple edge mask technique in After Effects | |
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| Automatically cycle mask colors in After Effects | |
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| Color correction | |
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| Color correction in Apple Final Cut Pro | |
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| Third-party options for color correction | |
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| Fixing Problems | |
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| Hair and fur and other tough-to-key edges | |
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| Matte tools | |
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| Third-party matte tools | |
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| Removing tracking dots | |
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| Spill and despill | |
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| Spill suppression in After Effects | |
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| Third-party options for spill suppression | |
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| Keying motion-blurred footage | |
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| Third-party options for keying motion-blurred footage | |
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| Making Your Composite Look Believable | |
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| Matching grain | |
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| Matching grain in After Effects | |
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| Light wrap | |
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| Light angle | |
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| Depth of field | |
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| Reintroducing reflections | |
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| Creating shadows | |
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| Third-party solutions for projecting shadows | |
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| Adding motion blur back into the video | |
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| Cool Tricks and Inspiration | |
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| Dancing clothes, aka the invisible man | |
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| Red lips, gray face | |
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| Key smoke and fire? Not! or How to remove a black background from fire, explosions, smoke, window cracks, etc. | |
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| Replace television or computer screens | |
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| The Sin City Conundrum: Blending 3D backgrounds with keyed footage | |
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| Choosing a 3D software that meets your needs | |
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| Creating 3D backgrounds in 3D software | |
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| Rendering your backgrounds correctly | |
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| 3D Channel Effects in After Effects | |
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| Depth matte effect: placing your greenscreen shot within your 3D | |
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| Depth of field with .rpf files | |
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| Matching your 3D and footage | |
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| The Future of Low-Budget Keying | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Resource List | |
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| Glossary | |
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| About the Authors | |