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Reflecmedia – Green and Blue screen Chromakey

Oct 23, 2009 at 8:38 pm in camera products, digital video news by Josh Mellicker · Comments are closed.

Traditional chroma key involves a complex professional studio setup with a large blue screen or green screen background. Reflecmedia’s innovative range of flexible, portable, safe and easy to use products mean that with minimal lighting and technical expertise almost any location can be used as a virtual studio at a fraction of the usual costs – providing endless creative possibilities for digital content creation.

Leading broadcasters, production companies and educators around the world use and trust Reflecmedia’s multi award-winning products. We  [read more →]

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Chroma Key in HD

Oct 22, 2008 at 6:15 pm in broadcast, broadcast products, cinematography by duncan · 3 Comments »

Click on the picture above to watch the movie!
We want to give you the opportunity to explore the art of keying. Taking the background out and dropping in something different is a special effects technique that has been around for years. However it was not until recently that we have been able to get broadcast quality results in both a fast and inexpensive manner. Quality Chroma keying is now for everyone.

Possibilities

Think about being able to shoot a  [read more →]

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Nattress releases Big Box of Tricks plugin set!

Mar 1, 2007 at 9:08 pm in digital video news by · Comments are closed.

Nattress Big Box of Tricks includes the existing filters from the discontinued Nattress Set 1 and Set 2, as well as several new filters.

The package consists of eight groups of filters, one group of generators and one group of transitions:

Blurs: These filters give you several different ways to blur your image, or parts of your image. Includes: G Cool Blur, G Directional Blur, G Horizontal and Vertical Blur, G  [read more →]

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PhotoFlex Pro Duty Support Kit

Jan 30, 2007 at 6:52 pm in lighting gear by Josh Mellicker · Leave a Comment »

This System works great with a ReflecMedia Back Drop

The Photoflex ProDuty™ BackDrop Support Kit includes our new BackDrop Pole, two 2320Y LiteStands, and a rugged carry bag to hold the whole kit. Shoot with confidence with this strong, stable outfit.

The BackDrop Pole is a single-unit with telescoping sections that constructs easily with a twist and pull motion to extend each section and another twist to lock in place. The Pole stores collapsed at 4′-7 “.  [read more →]

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Edirol V-8 Video Mixer

Jan 27, 2007 at 5:02 pm in broadcast products by duncan · Leave a Comment »

The V-8 Eight Channel Video Mixer has all the features of the V-4 by Edirol,but with more channels, two selectable RGB inputs, monitor outputs and additional powerful special effects. It continues the legacy of the V-4′s other great features such as ease of use, high-quality digital processing of video, numerous video effects and BPM sync with music. This next generation video mixer expands your visual presentation and performance potential to new applications and dimensions.


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How do I cut a subject out of the background?

Oct 14, 2006 at 5:38 pm in editing, post visuals by · 1 Comment »

To separate a subject from a background, you can either:

1. shoot in front of a greenscreen/bluescreen, then key out the background in postproduction

You can also key out a background that is much darker or brighter than your subject, but it usually takes a little more work, because often your subject will have pixels that are darker and/or lighter than the background, so there there will be holes in your subject that must be “patched” with a garbage matte. If your  [read more →]

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DV Gear Talk

May 31, 2006 at 7:02 pm in broadcast products, camera products, dvd products, editing products, film products, lighting gear, location sound gear, planning products, post audio gear, visual fx products, web products by Josh Mellicker · Leave a Comment »

DV Gear Talk was one of the world’s first video podcasts, hosted by Guy Cochran and DVeStore, the coolest place on the web to check out videos of awesome video production and post-production gear.

This podcast has been ranked as high as #12 of all podcasts worldwide!

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Ultimatte DV Chroma Keyer

Jan 29, 2006 at 8:54 pm in visual fx products by Josh Mellicker · 1 Comment »

The Ultimatte DV is a huge timesaver! Forget having to Render – it’s done! Real-Time chroma key made simple! Feed your Camera into the Foreground input, an S-Video signal into the Background input – what you see out of the Output is your final composite!
We’ve beeen using an inexpensive DVD player as our Background source. Simply burn a DVD with your still images or animated backgrounds and you’re done.

The true beauty of the Ultimatte is being able to adjust your  [read more →]