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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

DD, chroma key can be any color. Now maybe I'll go watch the goddamn thing.

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ORIGINAL: DeviantlyD

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

DD, chroma key can be any color. Now maybe I'll go watch the goddamn thing.

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There is a reason it's either green or blue, so it can't be just any colour. Try looking it up and you'll see why.

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ORIGINAL: ResidentSadist
When the suv stops, it looks HUGE because it's closer and on the periphery of the camera lens.  The type of wide angle lens creates a mild fish eye effect making the suv full frame.  Watch as the suv passes behind her, you see she is exactly as tall as the roof line.  My girl isn't taller than an suv either.  

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ORIGINAL: MissImmortalPain

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

DD, chroma key can be any color. Now maybe I'll go watch the goddamn thing.

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There is a reason it's either green or blue, so it can't be just any colour. Try looking it up and you'll see why.

Ok first....DD  Thank you for pointing out how unclear I was. I didn't think about the fact that some people do work in this area and might be aware, or need it pointed out, that not all "green screens" are actually green. But for the record they don't have to green or blue either. There is a magenta background that is used, in some software applications. Fxs aren't what they used to be, and no they aren't as exspensive as some people they anymore either.

*oh* and before I forget. If you want to check the magenta screen isn't always called a magenta screen either. Some call it "magic pink"

My point still being this part of the "news" isn't anymore "fake" than any other part of what we think of as news now a days.

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

"There is a reason it's either green or blue, so it can't be just any colour. Try looking it up and you'll see why."

I can build the damn thing, it can be any color. It is easier with blue for a couple of different reasons. Analog chroma key is old hat anyway. With digital video processing, well, it makes the best version of Photoshop look like a box of eight Crayola crayons.

Anyway, you can almost always tell when they're doing it. Now, with hi-def there are just about no technically induced artifacts like there almost always used to be, where they screw up is on the lighting. It is almost impossible to get the lighting right enough that a trained eye cannot tell.

The thing is, everything you see on TV is a show, you can't count on anything being real. If you think Maryann the weatherman is actually standing out in the rain instead of the nice warm studio, you're not paying attention. The umbrella is a prop. What you want them to do, spray her down and put big fans on her in the studio ? If I was the producer I actually would just send her outside. "For that kind of money....."

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

With a 4066 CMOS switch I can setup a schmidt trigger off one of the color feeds directly from the camera. After the video source to be inserted is genlocked (I don't handle that part, it's someone else's problem) then it is a simple matter to key the CMOS switch to completely change the background. Hell, it wouldn't even use all four sections of the SIXTEEN PIN IC that has been out for the last thirty years. It's fucking simple. Plus the fact I could probably do a cleaner job of switching using discrete components.

Wanna see a schematic ? I draw it up just for you. You think the web tells you everything don't you. And I don't care where you work, I know how to do this. Period.

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ORIGINAL: MissImmortalPain

Ok so this is pretty easy. They didn't want to put someone in danger sending them out into the weather. Or maybe everyone refused to go out into it. I would have. Go people smart enough to stay out of the ran. It's a shame a few more of them weren't in New Orleans.

P.S. They did not fake coverage. They did report that it happened. They just didn't go outside to do it.

ETA- It is just a green screen and most large broadcasters use them when reporting the weather.

There is one little problem with your theory. She is wearing green. If it was a chroma key (green screen), the backdrop would bleed through on the green jacket she's wearing. Even if it isn't the same green as the chroma key, you would still have enough of that hue for bleed-through to occur. That ain't happening in that shot.

Edited to add: The reporter in the story is apparently 5'4".

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy
^ that poster was just yanking your chain.   A drama queen.

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or
Ain't no relationship.

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ORIGINAL: Anaxagoras

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy
^ that poster was just yanking your chain.   A drama queen.

I find the relationship the two of you have rather touching...