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WEBINAR

Working With Green Screen Shots

"Make Your Green Screen Shots Look Great on the Web, Mobile Devices and TV"


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ON-DEMAND - ONLY $25
Includes an HD version of the webinar and an FAQ in PDF format. Yours to keep forever (but not to share with others).


DESCRIPTION

Greenscreen and bluescreen shots used to be the domain of high-end feature films and television shows, but no more. Corporate communications, training, marketing and other types of web videos are now making wide use of greenscreens to take their productions to the next level. Learn how greenscreen shots work, how to shoot them properly and most importantly, how to work with them during post-production to get the cleanest looking videos. Taught by Steve Wright, an industry leader in visual effects and compositing, this webinar will help you avoid the mistakes that busts budgets and ruin quality.


AGENDA

  1. How greenscreen shots work
  2. What to use - green or blue?
  3. Lighting the greenscreen stage
  4. What to use as the greenscreen
  5. Special video camera issues
  6. Motion tracking considerations
  7. Compositing greenscreens
  8. How greenscreen keyers work
  9. How greenscreen keyers don’t work
  10. Managing spill suppression
  11. Photorealistic compositing
  12. Compressing for web and mobile device delivery
  13. Closing


DURATION

60 Minutes


WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Editors, Videographers, Cinematographers, Producers, Directors, 3D artists, 2D artists, Post Production Supervisors, Corporate Communications Managers, Educators, Instructors


PREREQUISITE

None


PRESENTER

Steve Wright
Steve Wright is a Senior Compositor, 2D Technical Director and a senior industry veteran in visual effects compositing with over 20 years of production experience. He has over 70 film credits such as "Night at the Museum 2", "Shutter Island", "Solaris", "Traffic", "U-571", "Air Force One", "Hart's War" and many more.

Steve has also created the visual effects for 70 broadcast television commercials and is now a master trainer traveling around the world conducting VFX compositing training for major visual effects studios using Shake and Nuke. Steve also produces training programs and conducts classes and workshops both online and location based.

He has published two books on this fascinating subject and is a member of the Visual Effects Society (VES) and the Digital Cinema Society (DCS).

MODERATOR

Marcelo Lewin
Marcelo Lewin is the CEO and founder of NewMediaWebinars.com, which creates webinars for and by digital media creators. Previously, he founded and was the CEO of Pixel Heads Network, a company that produced audio and video podcast shows focused on digital media creators. Pixel Heads Network was acquired by ProMAX Systems in 2008. In 1999, he created My Internet Desktop, an "OS on the web" company, way ahead of its time, it was acquired by Internet Appliance Network in 2000.

He is also the host of The Digital Scene, a web show where he interviews digital media creators and industry insiders in various expos, meet-ups and events.

Having also worked for a variety of companies, from Walt Disney Imagineering to NBC to Toyota, he is always on the forefront of interactive media, digital filmmaking and new media projects.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS WEBINAR

"I enjoyed a lot this webinar. It was very cool. A new approach to me. Thanks. It was educative and also fun." - Javier Bravo


"Great webinar on Green Screen Shots. Steve Wright is so enlightening with the techniques and advice on finessing compositing for green screen. Looking forward to future webinars." - Sam P.


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