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Another alternative is Chromaflex,
a unique retroreflective material which is gray to the eye,
requires little or no light, and casts no spill on the talent
because the material is gray to the naked eye. But to the
camera it sees it as a perfect blue or green. This is because
of the Litering, a ring of LEDs
around the lens which casts blue or green light onto the
Chromatte material. Chromatte is also very portable in the
form of a Chromaflex, a 7x7
popup which folds down into a 3 foot hoop.
Chromakey
Sometimes Chromakeying is referred to
as an art, because getting a seamless composite is less
like a science and more like cooking; you need the right
tools, the right ingredients, some imagination, and a lot
of elbow grease. Traditionally the best way to Chromakey
is to light the background and the subject separately, this
means that the backdrop gets a relatively even coverage
of lighting, usually fluorescent, because most Chromakeyers
are susceptible to lighting variations and will give an
uneven key. The talent is then lit to try and simulate the
lighting environment of the virtual set. This can be difficult
if the set is dim because of the immense amount of light
usually required to get an even key on the background and
further exacerbated by the fact that the more light you
put on the background, the more spill you get onto the talent's
head and shoulders. An Ultimatte
will fix up the spill, but not all keyers have this feature
so special care must be taken when doing traditional Chromakey
lighting for virtual sets.
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