Is it Possible?

[mckc86]

Is it possible to add a person to the video(no people in there)
I captured a video and I want to add my friend in there , is that possible?(REALISTIC)

[offline]

Yep, but more details are needed as well as your
weapon (editor) of choice. Most editors can do
a simple overlay, some can do great compositing
and some proggys can do special FX.

[mckc86]

I use premiere pro
I want to put my friend(walking around) in the video

[daamon]

You need to film your friend walking around against a single-coloured background - the pro's use large rooms painted entirely green or blue and lit so that there are no shadows (ever heard of "green screen" or "blue screen"?).

The closer to "perfectly consistent" the colour is, the better. And a really obvious colour, that's totally different from what you've already filmed is good to.

This link: www.vce.com/bluescreen.html will give you an idea of what I'm on about. Of course, that's how the pros do it and it'll cost you to hire that kind of set-up.

If the colour's not totally consistent, I know in Premiere 6.0 that you can adjust the sensitivity to incorporate colours that are nearly the same. I would imagine (hope) that this exists in Premiere Pro too.

I've seen people state that their "home version" of green and blue screen has been to use a tarp, or a hung sheet. As long as it's lit well to remove shadows in the material you'll have a better chance.

As offline says, you'll need to look up how to do compositing and overlaying in Premiere Pro. It also would be useful to look up "mattes", as that's a term that Premiere Pro uses too.

This site: www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial will be of great use in learning how to do what you want.

Hope that helps. Good luck...

P.S. Having a more meaningful title will help attract people "in the know" to your thread.

[guns1inger]

It is very difficult to get a clean eadge if you use consumer DV to film your blue screen footage. The way colour is compressed means that fringing is a very real problem. Specialist keying software is best for this. Premiere on it's own might not be enough.

[madvideos]

actually that is a good question. I will explain some things while my video tutorial uploads to my site about this topic.
It is true about the blue screen / green screen, or really any color as long as it does not clash with what the subject is wearing. Then you just drop the video on the timeline on video #2, this way the other video that serves as a background video will be beneath the subject video.
Ok if you want to add a regular video, no blue screen etc.. then you are in for some work. I will give you a couple pointers though, I have done it and it came out nice, what I did:
Opened the video in premiere, exported it as a bmp sequence, meticulously removed the BG in every image, recompiled the images back into a video and wah Lah.. now I have a clean edge video, it also helps if you have some patience and a steady hand. maybe some other folks can throw around some ideas on this, I am curious to see how others are doing it as well. I will do another video tutorial if someone has a faster and better way.

[madvideos]

If you want to take a stab at it, load your video in Premiere Pro locate the chroma key by Going to the video effects folder, expand the keying folder and locate the chroma filter, drop it on the time line, and play with the settings, gonna be hard though. Good Luck keep us updated.

[madvideos]

oh yeah, try the other keys as well, I find the luma key works wonders sometimes, Premiere Pro has a few new keys I have not tried yet.. lemmie go play and see what they do.

[madvideos]

side note.. a 25 second clip will export 984 Bitmap images. Not gonna be fun, I used really small clips when I did it. Like 2-5 seconds. Also I picked clips that had a lot of dark spots or bright colors, and luma'd them and applied chroma and color balanced it. So it was easy when I exported to make fine adjustments.