Collaborate Disseminate
Virtual green screens are pretty neat, but for results, nothing beats the real thing. But what if you have limited space? [Fred Emmott] had about 30 inches behind his desk …read more Continue reading See How To Effectively Use a Green Screen In a Limited Space
An old adage says out of cheap, fast, and good, choose two. So if you’re like [Philip Moss] and trying to make a comedy series on a limited budget rapidly, …read more Continue reading Make Your Own Virtual Set
This year has been the year of home video conferencing. If you are really on the ball, you’ve managed to put some kind of green screen up so you can hide your mess and look as though you are in your posh upper east side office space. However, most of …read more
I’ve been recording video lectures for a Coursera specialization in cloud computing. The first of the four courses is available right now. I’ve been asked to describe how I do this, so here we go. The nearby image shows how the videos appea… Continue reading Solo Studio for Video Lectures
In other posts I describe how I’m producing videos for a Coursera specialization. This is a solo operation. I don’t have someone to hold the camera or answer the phone while I’m recording. When things go well, I produce exactly two, a… Continue reading FCPX and the Solo Studio
All this working from home that people have been doing has a natural but unintended consequence: revealing your dirty little domestic secrets on a video conference. Face time can come at a high price if the only room you have available for work is the bedroom, with piles of dirty …read more
Continue reading Background Substitution, No Green Screen Required