November 2007
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
13h 56m
English

Slow down, I’m in a hurry.
–Franz Mairinger (Austrian Equestrian)
Color keying was first devised in the 1950s as a clever means to combine live-action foreground footage and backgrounds that could come from virtually anywhere. As of 2007, the tools to do this are more powerful than ever, but the overall process still remains full of pitfalls—pitfalls that won’t likely be overcome until some other means evolves to define precise areas of transparency in foreground footage (and several contenders are in some form of development).
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For those reading nonlinearly, this chapter extends logically from fundamental concepts ...
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