Green Screen Made Easy: Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers

leondumoulin.nl: Green Screen Made Easy: Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers (): Jeremy Hanke, Michele Yamazaki.
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Green Screen Made Easy | Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers

You can read his original review at NeilOseman. I used to make a lot of micro- and no-budget movies packed full of VFX, but I usually avoided green-screen because I could never make it look good.

What Jeremy and his co-author Michele Terpstra set out to do is to cover the entire process from start to finish: The book is aimed at no-budget filmmakers, hobbyists or aspiring professionals making self-funded or crowd-funded productions, those digital auteurs who are often their own producers, writers, DPs, editors, colourists and VFX artists. Perhaps the unpaid VFX artist you had lined up for your sci-fi feature just pulled out.

Green Screen Made Easy: Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers

Both authors clearly write from extensive first-hand experience; throughout the text are the kind of tips and work-arounds that only come from long practice. The chapters on equipment are very thorough, considering everything from which camera and settings to choose to ensure the best key later on, to buying or building a mobile green screen, or even kitting out your own green screen studio — all with various alternatives to suit any budget.

The postproduction chapters revealed clearly why I struggled with keying in the past. Michele explains how the process is much more than simply pulling a single key, and can involve footage clean-up, garbage matting, a core key and a separate edge key, spill suppression, hold-out matting and light wrapping.

The book guides you through all these steps, and outlines the pros and cons of the software and plug-in options for each step. While the instructions in the book look pretty good as far as I can tell without attempting to follow them the medium of text seems a little restrictive in teaching what is inherently a visual process. Sara rated it it was amazing Sep 13, Gustavo Hernandez Moreno rated it it was amazing Dec 30, Paul J Woodyear Jr rated it really liked it Feb 20, Laura Howell rated it it was amazing Jul 15, Kung-Cheng Wang rated it it was amazing Feb 09, Michel Gerges rated it it was amazing Mar 31, Gord Lavery rated it it was amazing Jul 17, Salma rated it it was amazing May 06, Lawrence Chen rated it it was amazing Jan 24, Kallu rated it really liked it May 03, Jason marked it as to-read Nov 19, Jonathan marked it as to-read Feb 18, James marked it as to-read Aug 19, Zee marked it as to-read Feb 18, Bhaskar added it Feb 21, Kris Engelstad added it May 27, Chris Johnson added it Aug 21, Jon marked it as to-read Oct 07, Trevor Parker marked it as to-read Oct 17, Dennis Kullberg marked it as to-read Jan 14, Allen Michael added it Feb 20, Jonathan marked it as to-read Apr 11, Bhawesh marked it as to-read May 22, Asrul marked it as to-read Jul 10, Michael Minto is currently reading it Aug 03, The Hindu marked it as to-read Sep 12, Che Yen marked it as to-read Oct 06, Majid marked it as to-read Oct 20, Abby marked it as to-read Jan 13, Kristy Lantang marked it as to-read Mar 02, Karthikeyan marked it as to-read Jun 01, Ezio marked it as to-read Aug 19, Ashley marked it as to-read Aug 30, Madhubala added it Nov 12, Malik Yusuf marked it as to-read Feb 25,