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Old December 27th, 2007, 01:02 AM
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Default Re: GreenScreen Lighting

I wondered when/if this would come up, once I saw you got that for Christmas, but no mention of lighting. Here's what I've been told works, though I haven't seen it myself. Buy inexpensive 4' dual tube florescent fixtures with "flicker free" ballasts, two top and two bottom, to light your green cyc. Buy the best 5600K tubes (8+1 spare) you can afford. Light your subject(s) with 5600K light (incandescent corrected with Apollo Full CTB #AP2000 is fine, remember you'll lose intensity), but don't spill onto the cyc. Using 3200K on the subject and 5600K on the drop will be hideous. Be sure to set your video camera to 5600K also, of course. Try to duplicate the lighting on your subject to match the lighting in the, eventual, background. Done wrong, this can make "green screen" output look horrible-a dead give-away. Hope this helps.
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