| Want to Jazz Up Your Home Video? | | | | something revolting, such as cockroaches or |
| Chroma key is the way to do it. Chromakey is | | | | snakes crawling all over the background. |
| the cancelling out a background color so that you | | | | Now You Can Do Green Screening At Home |
| can insert a different background. You can | | | | Software is readily available today that allows you |
| purchase what you need from the auctions below. | | | | to do green screening on a home PC. I have |
| How They Do It | | | | scenes taped of myself in front of a greenscreen |
| The most common example of chroma key | | | | and then using an NLE (Non linear editing |
| (chromakey) is the TV weatherman. He is not | | | | software) and putting in a virtual set such as the |
| really pointing at a giant weathermap when doing | | | | Taj Mahal, the French Riviera, the Coliseum in |
| his weathercast. He is being filmed in front of a | | | | Rome in the background. |
| blue or green background. These shades of colors | | | | Green Screen or Chromakey Software |
| are not normally found in nature. The station | | | | Two examples of the software I use are Ultra |
| software simply substitutes the PC weather map | | | | CS3 and Visual Communicator CS3. These |
| for the green screen. | | | | products were originally developed by a company |
| Using chromakey software, the blue or green | | | | called Serious Magic. Serious Magic was acquired |
| color is removed and the weathermap | | | | by Adobe and they are marketed under the |
| background is substituted for the transparency | | | | Adobe Banner. |
| left after the keying process. Another example of | | | | Green Screen or Chromakey is fun. |
| this was the occasional scene on the TV show | | | | My grandchildren are really impressed by what |
| "Whose Line Is It Anyway". They frequently had | | | | Papaw can do. You can easily do this yourself. |
| an actor standing in front of a green screen with | | | | |