Blue Screen Stock Footage

[beaker]

Look at the extra's on dvd's of popular fx movies. They usually have shots of green/bluescreen. Like monkeybone dvd has around 15 minutes of bluescreen that they shot of the stop motion monkey puppet. I picked up the dvd at wallmart for $10. It is only 4:2:0, but its still something to practice on for very little cost.

[MayaV]

hi beaker

thanx for that, but i searched for monkeybone dvd everywhere but its not available in this part of the world do u know any other movies which has chroma shots in the "making section" of the DVD. awaiting eagerly for the reply.

regards

MayaV

[opus13]

star wars episode 2

[beaker]

Why not just look at the tutorials that come with whatever compositing software your using. There is almost always some kind of keying tutorial with some green/blue screen footage that comes with every package.

[jussing]

I can understand Tuqui-tuqui's request for real bluescreen footage, because you can't trust tutorial and demo bluescreen footage.

I have an After Effects book where the tutorial greenscreen clips are PRE-greenscreened, and have a perfect 0-255-0 green color keyed into the background, so they'll be easier to key with the toturial. :surprised That just sucks.

So yeah, some REAL green/buescreen footage, used in professional feature films, would be really nice. Practicing on the real thing.

Cheers,
- Jonas

[arvid]

Producing good results on crappy material teaches you a lot about the pitfalls of poorly shot and handled material, that is a very valuable lesson. Working with a 10bit 2K, perfectly lit 35mm cineon frame is no sport at all. You might as well work with your 0-255-0 material ;)

[jussing]

Yeah, but professional 35 mm keying footage ain't always that well lit -- for instance, did you see the Starship Troopers spacecruiser bridge greenscreen set? Lighing rigs, lens flares, shadows, folds, uneven lighting, and all sorts of s***, in frame. Anything but perfect green, really. ;)

Not to mention that the request for working on "real" keying footage also comes from a wish about not working on superlossy 4:1:1 DV, as amateurs are often limited to.

Cheers everybody,
- Jonas

[beaker]

Ill try to work on getting some footage for students to practice on. It's really hard to get permission for that kind of stuff though. There is just so much political red tape that it is often not worth persuing. All the stuff I'm working on now is way too high profile to bother with. I did work on alot of low budget stuff last year that I might be able to swing. No promises though.

[Tuqui-tuqui]

Beaker, that would be sweet. Thx!

Anyhoo, Im buying the monkeybone DVD this weekend and let you all know how it is.

MayaV: Look in ebay and you're going to find a LOT of Monkeybone DVDs on sale. I'm sure one is around you somewhere.

opus13: Thanks. Ill check it out too. I haven't seen the behind-the-scenes footage because I hated the movies (ducks for cover as items are thrown at me!!!), so didn't bother to buy or rent the DVDs.

Working with a 10bit 2K, perfectly lit 35mm cineon frame is no sport at all. You might as well work with your 0-255-0 material

I wish! :rolleyes: Only have access to a DV camera, but right now I just wanna practice basic keying without the whole process of first fixing the whole DV-GreenScreen-Bad-Footage-thinggy-maggig that always happen. But I will eventually have to learn how to fix that as well.

[arvid]

I hear you, I was over-generalizing a bit to make a point ;) Hardly any footage is perfect, but you do get a lot of experience with troublesolving if you have crappy footage, and there's no deadlines ;)

[jussing]

True! I think we see eye-to-eye then... ;)

[Hugh]

Have you had a look at the Digital Fusion courseware?

I'm pretty sure there is some greenscreen footage in there - how clean it is, I don't know.....

[Hugh]

Okay, so it was blue....

Anyway, this post (http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=7648#post7648) (on VFXTalk (http://www.vfxtalk.com)) has a posting of a still from the DF courseware - it's not the dirtiest bluescreen I've ever seen, but it's certainly not a perfect one...

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