Frank Vinas

Ram Thanks for the input you were right. The foreground lights were crossing to the blue screen, plus I didn't have a kick on the subject. I think that hurt us a lot. But we re-rigged with a green screen we purchased at an old textile distributer here and we found some one who had spared arri lights / silks and a chimera also. The green screen was at 4.0 f-stop and the subject at 3.4 and 2.8 f-stop. What was strange is that we did a pre-light test without any light arrangement and just the top florescence from the room and we cleaned the matte and it came out pretty decent so I can imagine what it will look like well lit. But the blue screen gave us so much trouble. As soon as I get the final I"ll post the before and after. For the next episode they've facilitated us a SONY Z1, i have not worked with it, what do you guys think in terms of shooting green screen? otherwise is PANASONIC DVX 100A.

I' m shooting a technology segment for a local network in Dominican Republic and have encounter a few problems. I used the in studio camera (SONY 537 CA 720p) to shoot a blue screen scene that is going to be aired in 16 channels locally. I've posted an 8 second take so you guys can see it and make comments. The problems I've encountered are: too much grain on the image after we did the output. When we cleaned the matte the subject had an obvious flickering on his hair and some parts on the body were still a bit dirty. The subject has spiked hair and the blue screen can be seen through it and is impossible to clean the hair section . Cinematography is still in an embryo state in this country but is growing slowlly eventhough there is no schools. We want to make the best show we can w/ what we got. Networks don't have capability to air in HD so most of the stuff they shoot here is aired in SD. I'm re-shooting all the bluescreen parts with a SONY HVR A1U or a CANNON XH A1. I have a cople questions regarding camara and lighting. What would be the best settings to shoot w/ the SONY or the CANNON?( I had never shot w/ nither) I know you guys probably have a lot of expirience shooting w/ these cameras on blue screens so any tips would be greatly apreciated. Another question that ran into my mind was if the BLUE was not the correct blue for the bluescreen? can I capture HD and down converted in premier CS4 to SD? http://www.youtube.com/user/freeuniversityedu?feature=mhum Frank Vinas