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Shooting defocused video plates
- Stills, really easy, particularly if you need the flexibility of raw. - Yeah. - But there's a certain niceness of having motion back there. With that tree shot? It didn't cut it to be a still. I can get away with a still for an interior of an office, but you expect movement, right? We got trees, wind. - Yeah, I mean, a still's gonna work out pretty well when you have a situation where, okay, fine, we have a static background for something like an interview or something like that. But, especially if the foreground, the subject is moving or better yet, like you see in movies all the time, they're supposed to be interacting in some way with the background. Having a still would just look weird. So yes, having some motion to that background is going to be helpful. - So what we have here is, once I got the shot correct, we made a few tweaks. I was playing with how much was in focus, and I blurred it a little bit manually. - Sure. - But as I looked at this, I was realizing that I was not…
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Evaluating the keying footage from a Canon camera5m 34s
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Evaluating the keying footage from a Panasonic Lumix GH43m 7s
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Evaluating the keying footage from a Sony a7S5m 29s
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Blending a key with the background with Light Wrap by Red Giant5m 58s
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Blending a key with the background with Lighwrap by Digital Anarcht3m 39s
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