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Green (and Blue) Screen Recommendations
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Greenscreen colors are a deeper subject than people realize. For the best keying extractions, you want a large difference between the green (or blue) channel, and the other two color channels when seen by a camera system.
Many colors that look ‘green’ to your eye actually have large amounts of red or blue in them. Many professional greenscreen shoots will use a waveform monitor to measure this, and we’ll at some point build this into Jetset, as it can make a huge difference.
If you’re painting a greenscreen, do yourself a favor and use the right paint. We strongly recommend Composite Components’ Digital Green and Digital Blue colors.
https://digitalgreenscreen.com
Digital Green/Blue Paint #
Digital Green/Blue Paint has the strongest difference between the green and red/blue channels. If you can paint your backdrop, use this according to the instructions. It requires a specific primer to get the full intensity, but it’s absolutely worth it.
Portable Backdrops #
This is what I use in my house when I’m doing test shots. The material is stretchable and resists wrinkles. The stands are surprisingly beefy and can extend up quite high.
Green Floors (Portable) #
Ideally, the green floor is the same color as the walls; even better if there is a seamless curved transition between them (called a cyc).
In practice, the incident angle of light on the floor is different than the angle on the screens, and the floors almost always end up hotter on camera. This has led to some clever tricks (like painting the floors with a darker ‘chroma green’ paint, and the walls with the brighter ‘Digital Green’ color shown above.
On the indie/portable side of things, we’ve been using this set of portable foam blocks for mobile demos. Lightweight, and they work well.