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LiteSets
LiteSets are digital backdrops for chromakeying.
They are computer images that you put behind a person or product on
a greenscreen to give the illusion they are somewhere else. The real
magic of LiteSets is that you can take
a person on a greenscreen and put them anywhere; a golf course, the
jungle, a library, or the moon using just your nonlinear editor or
other chromakeyer, a greenscreen, and
LiteSets.
LiteSets work with many nonlinear editors. That includes Avid, Final Cut, Premiere, Ultra 2, Vegas, Storm, Video Toaster, or any other NLE that has a chromakeyer and can import .jpg and .tga files. In fact, they work with any chromakeyer that can use digital computer files. You can buy LiteSets online and download them instantly. Each LiteSet has 10 or more virtual set angles with tight and wide shots to accomodate large and small chromakey stages, each angle is a quality composed shot, no crummy variations which are little more than a simple change to the color or blurring the background. Virtual Sets
LiteSets are virtual
sets, designed to expand your capabilities as an editor, compositor,
or producer. Virtual sets enable creative freedom by eliminating the
common limitations of traditional sets by allowing an unlimited number
of sets to exist in the same space. They allow the use of spaces much
large than your studio; talent can be composited in the middle of
a stadium, yet still be on a small greenscreen stage. Materials in
virtual sets are also less costly; you can build with any material
you want at equal cost. Lastly, virtual sets in the form of Litesets
come turnkey, ready for work with no preparation time and at enourmously
fractional cost to traditional sets. Consider, the base cost of this
disco virtual set is $40, A real disco ball would cost much more than
that.
Chromakey
So how does chromakeying a LiteSet work? Your talent
or product is put on a blue or greenscreen stage, the stage is covered
in blue or green cloth or paint. Then light with lots of even flourescent
lighting to make sure there are no shadows. The talent must keep a
good distance from the background to prevent from casting a shadow
(which would not key out) and from getting color light spilling onto
their shoulders.
Next, you film the talent using your camera and bring it into your nonlinear editor. If you are using a DV camera more consideration must be made when choosing a keyer, because of the poor keying quality of DV footage. A keyer like AdvantEdge or Ultra Key must be used to deal with the lost information due to the DV encoding process.
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