Ipod Commercial

Filmmaker wrote on 5/12/2005, 3:45 PM

I am trying to make the ipod commercial with movie studio... but does anybody know how to make the dancers or whoevers in it black? I know they used a green screen to get the bright coloring in the background... but how about the people? PLEASE HELP ME! i am desperate and in a rush! haha!

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Iacobus wrote on 5/12/2005, 7:07 PM

I believe they used a blue screen for chroma keying purposes. I'm not exactly sure how they achieved the silhouette look (maybe low lighting on the dancers?), but I do know the iPod wires (as well as some textures) were painted in—frame by painstaking frame.

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gogiants wrote on 5/12/2005, 7:56 PM

You could kind of sort of approximate the "shadow dancer" look by filming someone dancing against an at-least-relatively light background. You could then apply the threshold effect such that the dancer turns black relative to the background. The background would then be pretty much all white, so you could chromakey on white and have whatever background show through.

Another way would be to record the iPod commercial on TV and import it into Movie Studio. But I guess that would be too easy!

Chienworks wrote on 5/13/2005, 3:30 AM

There was quite a lively discussion of this in the Vegas forums a while back. Most of it applies to Movie Studio 3 or Vegas Studio 4. Check these links:

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=338381

http://www.vegasusers.com/vidshare/textdisp?stonefield-ivegas
http://www.vegasusers.com/vidshare/textdisp?wethree-stonefield-ivegas-flixed
http://www.vegasusers.com/vidshare/textdisp?stonefield-ivegas20
http://www.vegasusers.com/vidshare/textdisp?blacksheep69-ipod_sorta

Filmmaker wrote on 5/14/2005, 11:53 AM

Thank you for all of your help. I tried all of your advice...

But for some reason...probably just cheap software... i can not find a way to make my actors totally black? I want (and can only use) Vegas Movie Studio... but i cant do it!...

If anyone has any other advice... please leave it!

Thanks,
filmmaker

Masonrybiz wrote on 5/14/2005, 11:59 AM

My novice understanding is that most of the time they put the "actors" in a chromakey spandex type suit with a matching mask or hood and then use the chromakey tool on the "actors" ...Again, I am just a novice! LOL
Jason Moore

gogiants wrote on 5/15/2005, 7:41 AM

Chances are it's not cheap software, but cheap lighting, cheap video camera, and/or cheap background that's causing the problem!

Unless, of course, you spent a few hundred grand on that stuff like Apple likely did, and you only had $99 left over for your editing software...