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Two portable green screens available for checkout by K-Staters

Posted on by Betsy Edwards

by Phyllis Epps

Smaller green screen with male sitting on chair in front of screen
The smaller green screen, which reverses to blue, works nicely for close upper-body views.

Equipment checkout in 213 Hale Library has added two large, portable green screens for K-Staters to check out. Each screen can be leaned against a wall or other support for videotaping, or users can check out a backdrop stand. LED lights, available from checkout, can be used to provide additional lighting.

The smaller screen, shown at right, is a 5-foot by 7-foot reversible green screen + blue screen. The larger green+blue screen, which is 7 foot wide by 9 foot high with a 7-foot deep floor overlay, is shown below.

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Green screen (Part 3): Editing video using Sony Vegas 8

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

(Editor’s note:  This is the third in a series on the Media Development Center’s new green screen, which is available for K-State students, faculty, and staff to use on still images and video.)

The third and last segment provides a brief overview of how to “key” video using a green screen. The “chroma-key” feature is available on virtually all commercial video-editing software programs. This segment will highlight how to use Sony Vegas 8 to create the “green screen” effects.


Fred Darkow poses during the green-screen video
Fred Darkow poses during the green-screen video


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Green screen (Part 2): Editing still images

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

(Editor’s note:  This is the second in a series on the Media Development Center’s new green screen, which is available for K-State students, faculty, and staff to use on still images and video.)

This segment will address how to edit still images to change the background for the green-screen effects.

GreenScreenTriptych

First, open Adobe Photoshop. Open the particular image that you would like to change. (Anthony Cobb is modeling in the image below.) Continue reading “Green screen (Part 2): Editing still images” →

Green screen (Part 1): Using the green (+blue) screen at the MDC

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

(Editor’s note:  This is the first in a series on the Media Development Center’s new green screen, which is available for K-State students, faculty, and staff to use on still images and video.)

People who go to the Media Development Center (MDC), 214 Hale Library, may have noticed a large green (or blue) screen near the entryway in the past few months. This is known colloquially as a “green screen” because it allows graphic artists and video editors to change the backgrounds of images. For example, this is the tool that allows meteorologists to share information on moving weather systems.

A green screen is used in professional broadcast television studios to capture a person or people in the foreground while the background image may be dynamic. Then, the background may be “keyed” (chroma-keyed) or eliminated, and different backgrounds put into the place of the green/blue screen.

New green screen (blue on reverse side) and lights available for use in the Media Development Center
New green screen (blue on reverse side) with lights for K-Staters to use in the Media Development Center

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