Chapter 6. Color Keying
Slow down, I’m in a hurry.
—Franz Mairinger (Austrian equestrian)
Color keying was devised in the 1950s as a clever means to combine live-action foreground footage with backgrounds from virtually anywhere. What was once a fragile and expensive proposition is now fully mainstream. Whole films have come to rely on this technique, and many readers of this book will have some form of a greenscreen—be it a wall, curtain, or other background—somewhere nearby.
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Example footage and comps for this chapter are all in the 06_keying ...
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