Camera compression code, that long term makes me smile. People shooting videos at home and using video cameras probably have never heard it. What does this term have to do with video shooting and how does it reflect our chroma key screen?
In the DV world, our DV home video cameras use camera compression codec that does not compress the data of the pictures we are shooting into small files. Not compressing the files means cutting the "edge" and that means losing some of the information that was taken in a picture.
How does it affect our life?
If you want to operate your home greenscreen studio you should only use chroma key screen colored green. Losing information makes the stage of keying more difficult in the post production process.
The only time you will not use green chroma key screen in your studio will be only when it is vital that your talent has to wear green in the scene, or if they have light green eyes. As I have said this will be the only time you will use a blue screen. Otherwise you could end up getting our talent eyes keyed out in post production, which would end up in the video, looking like two holes straight through the head.
Make sure your talent will always avoid wearing anything green standing in front the chroma key screen. DV compression method used in video cameras throws away a lot of important colors. These colors are needed when you are trying to achieve a clean key in the post production process. In the process of compression more blue color then green, is thrown away, that makes green easier to work with.
Green chroma key screen is a lot more forgiving than blue simply because bluer gets thrown away by the in-camera compression codec, hence blue does not have as much information to work within the post production.
Conclusions
Green is the favorite color choice for shooting your video on DV formats.
In the world of DV and chroma key screen, the color green is sampled more than blue, and we get more data to work within the stage of post production.
The sample we get with blue color in DV world is far less sampled. It makes the keying difficult because we are getting a poorer choice.
If you use the green chroma key screen you will be able to perform good keying process, and it will give you smoother edges in post production.
To get a decent key using chroma key screen you should have good lighting work.
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