Bad coloured clothes? Look ok in FCP
by Josh Evans (mushyosh)
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Jul 10, 2008 at 11:19:11 am
A client has asked me why he was told that wearing blue or white is a no no on camera? I previously thought it was just Black that was no good, because it hid shadows and made the person look more 2D. Im editing some stuff now in FCP where a person has worn both blue and white clothes, and cant really see any issues. Can anyone enlighten me?
Re: Bad coloured clothes? Look ok in FCP by David Roth Weiss on Jul 10, 2008 at 4:03:34 pm
[Shane Ross]"I don't recall that blue was an issue"
The issue with blue is a possible chroma key problem. When keying out blue you can easily poke holes in parts of a blue shirt with shadows that approximate the color of the blue screen.
BTW, green screen was created to solve a similar issue, because Walter Cronkite's blue eyes created havoc on the CBS Evening News when they first began the now commonly used practice of keying images behind the news anchor.
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Re: Bad coloured clothes? Look ok in FCP by Rennie Klymyk on Jul 10, 2008 at 6:08:08 pm
The colour Red has long been the bad boy colour in video. A lot of this stems back from the early tube cameras and should diminish with the use of lcd screens and HD digital cameras.
