Live Blue Screen Possible?

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I have been "selected" (translation...the wife told them I would) to help
out with my sons end of year party. I have noticed when we go to Chuckie
Cheese with the kids, that one of the big favs is the camera in the front of
the room that puts them in to the video clips. I was thinking about doing
something like this. I have done blue screen stuff before, but it was
always on video and I was doing NLE with Premiere. Any one know of a easy
CHEAP way to do something like this?
 

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Hi,

If you simply want to "replace" the background with a still picture...

Depending on the quality of the output you want, the quality of the blue
screen and the quality of the lighting that will be present, a simple DV
camera can do the trick. Personnally I have a Sony TRV25 (about two year
old model) which can do blue screen replacement with a still frame directly
in the camera. The resulting quality is so-so......................

Hope this helps!

Bye!




"rscowboy" <jscott@accessdnsiREMOVE.com> wrote in message
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> I have been "selected" (translation...the wife told them I would) to help
> out with my sons end of year party. I have noticed when we go to Chuckie
> Cheese with the kids, that one of the big favs is the camera in the front
of
> the room that puts them in to the video clips. I was thinking about doing
> something like this. I have done blue screen stuff before, but it was
> always on video and I was doing NLE with Premiere. Any one know of a easy
> CHEAP way to do something like this?
>
>
 
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"rscowboy" <jscott@accessdnsiREMOVE.com> wrote in message
news:V57mc.129870$Yw5.32491@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> I have been "selected" (translation...the wife told them I would) to help
> out with my sons end of year party. I have noticed when we go to Chuckie
> Cheese with the kids, that one of the big favs is the camera in the front
of
> the room that puts them in to the video clips. I was thinking about doing
> something like this. I have done blue screen stuff before, but it was
> always on video and I was doing NLE with Premiere. Any one know of a easy
> CHEAP way to do something like this?
>
CHEAP is hard to get. You need Hardware to do
real-time blue-screen. A card set like the old Genie
or a Digisuite will do it, and there are relatively
inexpensive prosumer switchers with built-in
chroma-key capabilities. You probably need to
rent or borrow one of these devices to do the job.

David
 

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"rscowboy" <jscott@accessdnsiREMOVE.com> wrote in message
news:V57mc.129870$Yw5.32491@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> I have been "selected" (translation...the wife told them I would) to help
> out with my sons end of year party. I have noticed when we go to Chuckie
> Cheese with the kids, that one of the big favs is the camera in the front
of
> the room that puts them in to the video clips. I was thinking about doing
> something like this. I have done blue screen stuff before, but it was
> always on video and I was doing NLE with Premiere. Any one know of a easy
> CHEAP way to do something like this?
>
>

I survived Chuck E. Cheese at my granddaughters fifth birthday last month...
(grin) My video turned out great.

I was recently researching Blue-Screen Movie Effects and came across this
brief article which I have not studied in detail yet.

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/howto/story/0,24330,3591818,00.html

But I guess you want it live for effects at the birthday party.

Rich