DIY wall for Chromakey green screen recording.

After spending a lot of time trying to get good quality green screen footage for e-learning projects using cloth backgrounds, we decided to build a dedicated wall at the studio unit for green screen recording.

2 trips to the diy store got all the materials including:

• 20 2.4m battens
• 5 sheets of 9mm plasterboard (8x4) size
• A door which was on special offer
• Lots of screws
• Lining wallpaper and paste
• White paint for a base coat
• Can of Rosco Chroma Key paint

The available space was approx 4.5m high by 4.45m wide.

We built a wooden frame 3m high which was secured to both side walls and the floor using the battens and made a door frame to allow access to the front of the unit.

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I will be working on a new video project for the Dorset Car Owners Club in the next few weeks.

The club are hoping to product various videos featuring members and their vehicles.

Will also be producting some new marketing videos for a new political party, more coming soon........

Went out for a drive today with my Canon Eos 5D in the car and did one frame every second which was then converted into a time lapse movie

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3321437

After buying a Canon XH A1 camcorder a couple of months ago, I finally got round to buying the hardware and software to let me edit the hd video footage it generates, by buying a Mac Pro and a copy of Final Cut Studio 2 last week.

I found a video site http://www.vimeo.com which lets you upload and host HD movies. I was able to get some footage to add to the railway page on http://www.virtual-swanage.co.uk/page.aspx?p=railway and I uploaded a HD version of the video to http://www.vimeo.com/2127958

I had 6 of Apples "Apple Pro Training Series" books come from Amazon so it looks like I will be spending the next few months learning how to use Final Cut Pro and also Logic Pro to get the best out of this camcorder and all the other video and audio editing software!