Hi, Steve! Welcome to the group!

Postproduction on Astronuts -- the film described at www.shoestringscifi.com
-- has very recently resumed after a months-long hiatus. (Basically the
computer I used for editing went to the junkpile in the sky, and I only
recently bought a new one.)

Greenscreening is fun, isn't it? Astronuts uses it -- bluescreening
actually -- in every scene. It's good that you've done a lot of tests. In
2001 -- yes, that long ago -- I decided to "damn the torpedos" and start
filming after only a few tests, and I've been paying for it ever since -- it
has taken hundreds and hundreds of hours of postproduction "repairs" to
bring the quality of the bluescreen mattes to an "acceptably bad" level.
Having said that, I think the low quality of the composites adds to the
cheese factor of Astronuts, which is a no-budget sci-fi farce. :) Next
time around, the compositing will be better!

Preproduction of Astronuts started in late 2000. Astronuts will be about 30
minutes in length, and I've only finished "bluescreen cleanup" on about half
of the movie so far. Whoa. Oh well -- it keeps me off of the streets...
:-P

Again, welcome to the group, and have fun with your productions!

Greg
Absolute zero is 0K!

>I'm a member of the IKV T'Mar. We mostly do Klingon, also pirate and
>mad scientist. Mostly we do volunteering at charity events, we've also
>done a game show and casino at sci fi conventions.
>
>We made a 2 minute spoof called Klingon Academy Recruiting. It and
>some tests from a Greenscreen panel I did at Rustycon early this year
>are here:
>http://www.ikvtmar.com/films/
>
>Steve Greenfield