Thanks Cicero and Nice...................... I emailed you.

Billy D.

proper lighting on the chromakey is the important thing.  If you have a seam or winkle the fabric is still the same color the problem is shadow.  If you light the backdrop evenly and in a way that that doesn't cause shadows a seam is ok.  In fact, in really large sets, I've seen where there has been seams in the chromakey and it still worked.

Thanks Jon 

Billy D.

proper lighting on the chromakey is the important thing.  If you have a seam or winkle the fabric is still the same color the problem is shadow.  If you light the backdrop evenly and in a way that that doesn't cause shadows a seam is ok.  In fact, in really large sets, I've seen where there has been seams in the chromakey and it still worked.

It's also really, really important to light the green screen separately from the puppets and avoid casting shadows.

I have a question about working out the green... I heard on the video on youtube they use Final Cut Pro to remove the green color. I'm working under windows XP and I understand that Final Cut Pro is a Mac program. Does anybody know a program for win that can remove the green color?

Thx Johan

I'm still new to all this green screen. I bought Sony Vegas Movie Studio/DVD which Sonny uses and several other members use. I'm sure Sonny can tell you how the Chroma key removal works.
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/vegasfamily.asp
I just ordered Green Screen Wizard which is used primarily for digital photography... and is fairly easy to understand.
http://www.greenscreenwizard.com/

Billy D.

Pinnacle software video edition!

Thx Billy and Miguel,

I have Pinnacle studio 10 and I will try this one... results will be shown on the forum.

Johan

I have been very happy with Pinnacle and used it for many video's for personal and professional and love the quality at the end.

Daryl H

I use Pinnacle Studio 12  and love it! The video's I posted earlier were done with this software.