Darth Editous said:
Adywan,
I saw something on a project website some time ago which was basically a cheap way of achieving a tracking shot. Instead of a big set of tracks, you make a mini track and mini dolly, then mount it between two tripods. Don't know if that'll help with whatever you're planning. And never forget you can always move the set instead of the camera...
Also bear in mind that green screen isn't going to be easy to achieve without high-end camera equipment. As I found out to my cost, you really want to be capturing in 4:4:4 (i.e., pro equipment) for a good matte. DV was good enough for my purposes, and you might be alright if you're shooting in HD, because the subsampling will be compensated for by the increased number of pixels.
DE
Ripplin said:
Yes! To Darth Editous you listen! ;)
Of course, after all he is one of the guys that inspired me to start all this in the first place :)
Yes, i've been looking at getting the mini tracks and dolly as i just don't have the room for the full size ones, plus i don't really need the larger ones anyway. As for the green screen, i borrowed someone's mini green screen that they use for their photography to do a few tests with the 1080p HD canon camera and used FXHome Visionlab to do the chroma-keying and the results were great. I tried it with some ordinary green material i got from the local store and the results weren't so great. i'll need a much larger screen to achieve the ship flybys for ESB:R though and for ROTJ with the new ships and the 6ft stardestroyer