• Thoughts on keying part 3- Compositing

    Spell-checkers insist on changing the word “compositing” to “composting”, which has caused more than one person to think I’m some sort of gardener.  And although I can teach a spell-checker to recognise the word ‘compositor’ it’s not as easy to explain what it means, so many of my friends still don’t know exactly what it is that I do. In part one of this rambling chain of thought, I looked at the way that technology has improved the process of keying blue/greenscreen footage.  Compared to 15 years ago we have better cameras, better hardware and better software.  In part 2 I looked at keying from a producer’s perspective and concluded…