premier?

stormychef · Post by **stormychef** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 7:07 am

Just curious if anyone knows how to do blue screening with Premier

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 7:10 am

Premier? Never heard of it.

I can do Blue Screen stuff in Premiere but I actually prefer green screen where you colour something in 255 green and it will dissappear.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 7:14 am

IT's Premiere god damnit...

Yes and under Tranperancy Setup, there is such a key type called "Blue Screen".

You want to use pure blue as much as you can that would be a value of 0,0,255 <---RGB.

If your source does not have 100% PURE blue, then fiddle with the sliders until it's removed the other shades WITHOUT harming the picture.

Be careful as you may not notice a chunk of someones eye is missing until later..

Also if you're importing something like say drawings and you're blue screening the background around your sketches then you DO NOT want to use a tool that has a feathered/soft edge, like say the Paintbrush in Photoshop. Use a big fat pencil tool, or turn off softness on whatever tool you're using. Don't worry about the jagged pixel look since Premiere has a option, also in the transperancy setup that allows you to smooth out the edges... yeah...

and I e-mailed you and you haven't replied damn you!!!

:p

~klinky

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 7:15 am

Yes and like AD, I prefer Green Screen....yes yes.. I don't know why... Maybe green is used less in Anime or something

~klinky

alternatefutures · Post by **alternatefutures** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 8:47 am

I prefer just doing it with Photoshop and leaving a nice alpha channel for me to use instead of having to key out a color. Much nicer looking.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 9:07 am

The only problem with the alpha channel method is that you don't get the option of smoothing - which can be really really useful sometimes.

I've become a big fan of the green screen approach lately.

stormychef · Post by **stormychef** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 9:14 am

Okay! Okay! so I forgot the 'e'

me bad, I'll string myself up later for that...

Thanks Klinky!

-And I vow to steal Kaji away from you...

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alternatefutures · Post by **alternatefutures** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 12:22 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:The only problem with the alpha channel method is that you don't get the option of smoothing - which can be really really useful sometimes.

Sure you do! You just need to do it in Photoshop is all ^_^ Really, I think if this was live action footage, then you're right, chromakey all the way, but this is anime we're dealing with, with nice, solid, bold lines. I just don't see the allur of it, especially if you want to create auras or gradients.

ZeWrestler · Post by **ZeWrestler** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 12:42 pm

i think the site, http://studio.adobe.com might have the answer to your question (hope i typed the link right)

ZeWrestler

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 2:24 pm

alternatefutures wrote: Really, I think if this was live action footage, then you're right, chromakey all the way, but this is anime we're dealing with, with nice, solid, bold lines. I just don't see the allur of it, especially if you want to create auras or gradients.

Yeah, but in my experience the smoothing hides my crappy photoshop skills when compositing things. Trust me, for me the green screen is helpful

I do use both - and I especially like gradients on certain things but occasionally I just want to do something quick and have premiere smooth out the wrinkles