Blue/Green screen overlay

[chazzie]

anyone know what program will allow to make a green or blue screen overlay? Preferably one that has settable tolerance on how "green" the background can be.

[TapeWurm]

I used Vegas Video for this and it works great! With a good deal of tolerance that even worked with my blue sheet from Walmart! hahah Yep... a sheet. Not very great results cuz of my lighting, but it still rocked. I think if you're using something a little bit more hi-tek, with some fair lighting, you'll get fantastic results.
I managed to use it to make a video of my severed head in my hand talking that was pretty cool. I had wrapped a blu shirt around my head to do it and then covered my body for the overlay video. Very neat. Good luck!
Oh, Vegas Video is made by Sonicfoundry BTW

[chazzie]

Great, I've already bought Vegas Video. Now I've gotta try this right away. Could be possible to make some very cool effects.

Which version of VV do u use?

Thanx for your info!

[TapeWurm]

Great, I've already bought Vegas Video. Now I've gotta try this right away. Could be possible to make some very cool effects.

Which version of VV do u use?

Thanx for your info!

I can't even recall! haha I burned out on hobby #24,681 (video creation/editing/blue-screening) about 2 1/2 years ago. So whatever version was out then, I used. It HAS to be a great program now! haha I recall taking the .pdf manual to work and printing it out over the course of a few nights on their HP laserjet. 400+ pages. Ahh, the memories..

[chazzie]

Looked quickly in the program yesterday, couldn't find the function, but I assume that you must use two overlay videos with an alpha channel or something...

[The village idiot]

I think there was a thread on the subject down in the editing forum, you might want to look down there.