The Case of the See-Through Monk ~or~ I Had to Google "Clean Coffee from Keyboard" - Thanks a Lot, Natasha.

I’m deep into post-production on HoFS Scene 8, “Fixed!”.  When I’m not snorting coffee all over my keyboard (thanks, Natasha, for adding about an hour to our blooper reel, all by your sultry little evil-spy self), I’m desperately trying to figure out a way to save this footage from the wide, chroma-key blue side panels  I unfortunately didn’t notice that Ed was sporting on his shirt.

Natasha McGinnis as Natasha Badenov and Ed McGinnis as Ding Bang, Abbot of the Jade Fender Temple

So much for the preternatural observation skills of the martial artist… Derp-derp!

Anywho, my philosophy is: when life hands you lemons, plunk down and Google the crap out of lemon recipes!

While I was searching, I found the BEST explanation ever for how to chroma-key in Sony Vegas. I rather doubt I’ll have time to go back and implement this on the video I’ve already ever-so-amateurishly blue screen edited, but I’m sure it will make a huge difference in the rest of the editing before me.

TOTALLY worth a see-through monk to find this!

Friday Film Making Finds: Movietools.info

During my first attempt at chroma-key, I came to the sudden realization that I would need backgrounds. Movietools.info has a special place in my heart as the source of the motion background for my very first attempt at green screen editing, a "screen test" by Squirrel Connery, who would end up playing Agent 00Squirrel in our school film.

I won't lie. I squeed when it actually worked.

Sorry this isn't getting posted until the following Monday (instead of the Friday it was originally written), but because Blogger doesn't allow me to just enter a link for a video, I had to wait until YouTube's search engine caught up and would allow me to select it. If anyone knows a workaround for that issue, I'd love to hear about it! Many thanks, and happy filming!

PS: Posts have been erratic lately due to a death in the family. I'm a chronic overachiever as it is, and two weeks of down time means I'm buried with stuff that must be done, as opposed to really fun stuff like this Blog that I simply enjoy. Hope to get back to more regular posting soon!