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Jaynie

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Apr 13, 2012 21:12

I haven't been using this program for very long, and don't know the ins and outs very well yet, but is there any way to edit the background of a video? For a school project, we're shooting our film, but want it to seem like we're on the game show Jeopardy. Since we obvisouly don't have an entire Jeopardy set, is there any way to change the background to that of Jeopardy?

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D.Vertz

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Apr 13, 2012 21:27

I am still very new as well. But maybe this will help a little.

In all the information I have read, I read someplace that PowerDirector supports green screens. This means if you shoot your video with a green background, then you can use any other video as the background image. I have not looked at this so I wouldn't know how it is done.

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PlaySound

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Apr 13, 2012 22:32

PD10 makes Chroma Key, the video must have good resolution in designer Pip has the Chroma key tool.
See the clip at this site Chroma Key Demo
http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector/overview_en_US.html?affid=2581_930_479_2_0_ENU_powerdirector&utm_source=CLHP_FeaturedSoftware&utm_medium=CLHP_FeaturedSoftware_2_powerdirector&utm_campaign=CL_Homepage&r=1

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CubbyHouseFilms

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Apr 13, 2012 23:29

Quote: I haven't been using this program for very long, and don't know the ins and outs very well yet, but is there any way to edit the background of a video? For a school project, we're shooting our film, but want it to seem like we're on the game show Jeopardy. Since we obvisouly don't have an entire Jeopardy set, is there any way to change the background to that of Jeopardy?

Hi Jaynie

Welcome to the forum

The key to an effective look is to use a green or blue screen - this is critical to the Chroma Key function in PD. If you have too many colours or movement in your background you will be disappointed with the results.

Follow the link below to a similar topic:

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/22389.page

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Jaynie

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Apr 14, 2012 09:13

So in using a blue or green screen, does it matter what is it, or it can be anything as long as its blue or green?

BarryTheCrab

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Apr 14, 2012 09:24

Blue, green, anything you or the subjects are not wearing.
Most folks go with fluorescent green because so few things in our world are that color. Watch a Youtube tutorial or 3, and remember, even lighting, no wrinkles, even lighting, no wrinkles, get it!?
Here is a sampler I did very quickly. The woman is actually in her living room.
http://youtu.be/MhYpssoRBgY
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Carl312

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Apr 14, 2012 10:41

Here is a Tutorial on the basics.

http://youtu.be/PK0Yqd5M9UQ

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Jaynie

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Apr 16, 2012 20:46

Ok, so I've got a green screen, and everything is set, but now my question is where can I find a Jeopardy (or a similar game show type theme) to use as the background? I don't know if that's really what you call it, but I don't want the people on the film to be in a space ship or anything, I want them on a game show, ya know?

Thanks everyone for your help! This is all new for me!

BarryTheCrab

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Apr 16, 2012 21:42

Internet image search.
Game show TV set. You may need to go thru 1000s, but it honestly does not take very long to do that.
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