DSLR Remote Pro + Green screen

[Chris Breeze]

DSLR Remote Pro for Windows v2.0 beta 1 is now available for download.

This beta release add support for green screen shooting. In fullscreen photobooth mode the live view images replace the green screen with the background image so that users see what the final image will look like. DSLR Remote Pro for Windows v2.0 beta 1 will also replace the green background with the background image when printing out the photobooth images. This is fine for small photobooth strips, but for larger photos it's probably better to use specialised green screen software such as Green Screen Wizard Pro Batch. This can be setup to monitor the folder where DSLR Remote Pro saves the images, replace the background and save the resulting image in another folder. Another app such as Hotfolder Prints (released today) can then monitor folder where the green screened images are saved and format and print them.

Please see the news page for details.

Please note: this is a time limited beta which won't run after the end of August 2010.

[alexsiskahn]

Many green screen photos have 3 layers, an overlay layer, the cut out person layer, and a background layer.

The overlay often cements the person into the background and makes them look like they are in the "environment"

If would be great if this overlay was also present on the live view. That way people could interact with it. for example the overlay could be a soccer ball and the background could be a soccer goal. The subject could act like they were catching the ball as the goalie.
I supposed a cut out ball taped to the monitor could be used as a substitute, but it limits the session to one background.

[alexsiskahn]

the most jaggies seem to be with people's hair. Does back lighting help that much? I guess I should try it for myself.

[Chris Breeze]

Many green screen photos have 3 layers, an overlay layer, the cut out person layer, and a background layer.

The overlay often cements the person into the background and makes them look like they are in the "environment"

If would be great if this overlay was also present on the live view. That way people could interact with it. for example the overlay could be a soccer ball and the background could be a soccer goal. The subject could act like they were catching the ball as the goalie.
I supposed a cut out ball taped to the monitor could be used as a substitute, but it limits the session to one background.

You can do this with DSLR Remote Pro for Windows v2.0 beta 1. The live view in fullscreen photobooth mode supports an overlay using a PNG file with transparency information in the alpha channel and this can be used in conjunction with the live view green screen replacement. This means you can have a foreground defined using the overlay with opaque, transparent or semi-transparent areas and behind that a layer with the people in front of a background generated by replacing the green background with a background image.
Please see the section on live view overlay in the photobooth shooting section of the help file for more details.

[alexsiskahn]

Is it possible to use a touch screen device and have 4 different green screen backgrounds and then when a user chooses one background it will automatically present that background via the live view.

It doesn't seem possible to me now, but maybe I am not thinking of how to do it. Seems like the green screen window would need to be somehow linked to the xml data so the background could be changed when new xml data is chosen via the touch screen?

[anastassis]

Excellent news!!! will give it a try asap. Thanx!

[PhotoJames]

It would be really great to have this functionality on PSRemote. Any chance of this happening anytime soon?

[Chris Breeze]

Please, please, can we have the same for NKRemote!

Cheers

Tony

I'm in the final stages of testing green screen on NKRemote and should have a beta available next week.