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Topic: Another "Which Camera?" Thread

OK, here's the deal. I got a Canon Powershot A580 for my birthday two months ago. The problem. IT CAN NOT BE USED TO CAPTURE!!! I had no idea, otherwise I would have NEVER bought the camera.  So what should I do now? My brother has an Hv30 but that has way to much film grain which leads to pore keying. I've looked at some A85's on eBay but all of them are either broken or have some other weird flaw. Also I refuse to buy a web cam because of the same reason I wont use my brother video camera: Way to grainy. So my questions are the following:

1. Which cameras besides web cams do you guys use?

2. Which of those is the best and under at least under $150?

3. How the heck do you guys key with your web cams anyway?

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Re: Another "Which Camera?" Thread

Canon PowerShot A480?
And who said this was grainy.

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Flippin' eck, if you have a HV30, use that. Just make sure everything's well lit to avoid film grain. I personally have a Panasonic GS320, which has 3CCD's, and does a very nice job. To be honest, for $150, you're not really going to able to get a decent video camera, unless it's 1 CCD, which has less accurate colours. You may say no webcams, but the Quickcam 9000 would be an excellent choice- with the extra resolution and quality it gives (I believe it's capable of filming in the lower HD standard), it should be relatively easy to key- I've seen decent keying done with the Quickcam Pro 4000, which is inferior. It's not really the camera that matters that much, IT'S HOW YOU LIGHT YOUR SETS.

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Re: Another "Which Camera?" Thread

And who said this was grainy?

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http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/GreenscreenerStudio/Avatars/img_0763.jpg

Try keying this. mini/frustrated

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Re: Another "Which Camera?" Thread

maybe you sjould adjust your lighting more on the blue screen i know it always helps for me with my nikon D60

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Easy as pie son. mini/smile

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Re: Another "Which Camera?" Thread

mini/twitch but...but....but I use Adobe CS4...and it wouldn't key at all...how did you do it?

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Sony Vegas Pro 9. It was REALLY easy. I dropped the "Blue Screen" video effect on it. It was all keyed out. But i just had to put high threshold down and a tiny bit of blur. Then i just masked around the brick. I put a little bit to much feather around the foot but thats ok.

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Greenscreener Studios wrote:

mini/twitch but...but....but I use Adobe CS4...and it wouldn't key at all...how did you do it?

Color Key, Keylight?

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Donsalvatore wrote:
Greenscreener Studios wrote:

mini/twitch but...but....but I use Adobe CS4...and it wouldn't key at all...how did you do it?

Color Key, Keylight?

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Greenscreener Studios wrote:

mini/twitch but...but....but I use Adobe CS4...and it wouldn't key at all...how did you do it?

I've always thought people who have enough money to by Adobe products would put time into learning every corner of the program.

Edit: This sisn't take long using Keylight, obviously you'd spend more time getting rid of the blue reflections, but putting it on a lighter/blue background would probably distract from that.

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Re: Another "Which Camera?" Thread

lollllllllllllll
you got shown blud

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^^ Ha, ha! Look at my previous post.

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I use a Panasonic DV Camcorder. It's pretty old but it has good quality. It's easy to just plug it into a firewire port! And then open your capturing software and voila!:D

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Re: Another "Which Camera?" Thread

I have a Panasonic PV-GS83 (pretty uncommon model)

what's your lighting like?

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