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I should get a green screen for my videos. Suggestions welcomed.
Any ideas? Do any of you use such a device yourselves?
Mount camera to ceiling, get a green rug, record lying on the ground (jk)
@swlabr
While lying on a lazy susan and rotating slowly, with Major Tom playing faintly in the background.
really leaning into the pivot theme
@froztbyte
More reclining into but yes.
Actual suggestion: maybe mount a roller blind to the ceiling. Might need extra weight to tension the blind but also might not.
Also, you probably don’t need a totally green background, just enough to make masking easier. You could conceivably tape a big sheet of green cardboard to the back of your chair and see how that goes.
Also: idk how hard or easy this is but if the camera position is fixed and the rest of the scene is static, maybe there’s software that can just mask out the static scene?
I'd scrounge the biggest piece of cardboard that I could and go at it with spray paint.
oh yeah anything that can be chromakeyed basically, green is canonical and quite a good colour for the job.
Green and blue are canonical because they tend to have strong contrast with the people and their clothes, so the cromakey isn't likely to pick up random bits of people's face and outfit to cut out. If you want to go for the green cardboard option I would just make sure you get as consistent a color as possible and see about finding a cheap light and/or reflector to put behind you so that it doesn't get obscured by your shadow. Definitely had that happen in a couple of student projects I did and it was impossible to set it up to be an aggressive enough match to always get the board (including the shadowed parts) without also picking up the lining of someone's jacket or something.
Maybe you could paint the wall greenscreen, and hide it behind a tapestry when not in use. Then you wouldn't need a place to store or deploy the screen frame hardware.
edit: froztbyte has a good point! To clarify, I mean only an appropriate square of wall that is in view of the camera. Also, I'm a deranged person that consumes pivot via podcast, so I don't know the layout of the room. A more clever person than I would have checked on that before offering a potentially impractical suggestion.
imma hazard a guess and bet David doesn’t want to do nearly that much work
I know Elgato do a collapsible greenscreen, but that's the only one coming to mind.
i've had several recs for that greenscreen and frankly it looks ideal for the job. Now for the £160 ... it's on my channel wishlist.