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Here's what I used for my setup. Fabric/Material The main thing is to find a material that is very green. Walmart sells (at least in Maine) a very green cotton fabric that works well ($9 for 3 yards). I've tried materials that are a lighter green, but without success. One thing you have to watch out for is large wrinkles, which will quickly ruin the ...

What sorts of fabric/material give good results? Both general tips and specific examples/links are helpful. Great Resources for tips on lighting and materials: http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/alindsay/story/greenscreen_primer_part_1/ http://rebelsguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2432 Underexposure (not lighting enough) is your biggest enemy, ...

Let's first review the basics of green screen: 1) screen about 5 or more feet behind subject so it is out of focus from subject. 2) flat screen, no wrinkles. 3) flat lighting, no shadows, no hot spots. 4) subject can not wear green or wear shiny things or see through things. Review Vegas Chroma Key: Once you engage the chroma key effect, use the eye ...

Me and my friend made one for a video project. What we did is took a white bed sheet and just painted it with basic green paint. It becomes a stiff starched fabric texture, which works well for hanging it on a wall. To light it, We used just work lights (3 100watt bulbs + unknown wattage) to light it. The lights we used were like this: We just had to play ...

This won't be a full answer to your question, but LearningDSLRVideo has a few clips about DIY greenscreen--more from a shooting/software standpoint, than the physical setup standpoint, though. How to Key DSLR Green Screen DSLR Green Screen Test DSLR Green Screen Test with Premiere CS5

I haven't tried chroma keying in Final Cut Express, but I'm pretty sure it depends on your needs and workflow. If you use Premiere for editing movies than AE should be more integrated. Yet, if you really want to get awesome results and have some spare bucks, I'd say you look at some plugins. After all neither AE nor FCE is specialized in chroma keying. ...

I've reflecmedia chromakey with good results using a DSLR for both stills and video, producing great easy to key files. Reflecmedia Pop up screen We plan to use this as part of our DSLR HD Video DIY Greenscreen Training course at United By Photography.

For both Ubuntu and Mac, you can consider giving Blender a try. Although it is a 3D modelling and animation suite, newer versions have extensive and powerful compositing tools, including a good camera tracker, video editor and chroma keyer. Blender might seem a little hard to understand but it is not. If you are doing a fresh start with a new software, ...

You won't need the Master Collections. As you say, it comes with a bunch expensive extras. You can go for the Adobe Premier Pro which comes with a basic chroma keyer, and/or After effects which give you a little more to tweak with. However, these doesn't come in Unix/Linux versions, but if an option you can check them here: ...

While AE has a chromakey plugin in the box, I have good experience with: http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/news/featured/KeyingSuite11/ There are several tutorials on there website, and this gave me the best results. Of course, your footage is the key

After Effects is well know as a finishing software. The best chroma key plug-in I saw in A.E. was keylight. Very nice full controls, to handle even color/light correction of borders key. I don't know if keylight is avaliable for FCE. Maybe the only benefit inside FCE is rendering time. Real tests can talk a lot more. My vote goes for After Effects.