Hello,
This question may be better suited for the post production forum, but I'm a newbie so I thought it safer to stay in here. My question:
I am doing short films for a hobby and I enjoy it a lot. I have a green screen now and I would love to make some space type movies and other things like that. The video backgrounds would really make a huge difference compared to a static image.
I have found multiple sites that offer collections from $89.00 all the way into $599.00. I don't know any reputable sources for these and if I'm going to have to shell out that kind of cash I want to make sure I don't drastically overpay for something lacking quality.
Any sites that have free or whatever any of you feel is reasonably priced video backgrounds I would really appreciate it if you would let me know. I just have some skepticism from the quality of the web pages. Thanks
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Hi,
Sorry, one more question. If there is a reasonably inexpensive way that any of you have found to create any type of video background I would like to hear about it. Thanks again.
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I think it might help if you were more specific. A video background is just a layer of video like the foreground. You could film it yourself if you needed to.
If you are looking for stars whipping by a viewscreen you could take a bunch of photos of stars and stitch them together into a very long chain and have the camera move past them on the layer in question. When a non-moving layer is plopped ontop in editing it will appear that the spaceship is moving through the stars.
For Alien and the Buck Rogers end credits they had stars coming towards the camera by dropping things towards the camera (in Alien it was water, in Buck Rogers it bounces off the camera so I'm not sure what they were) that are lit from the side with a black background.
Planets and spaceships can be CGI or models. I've not really worked with either.
RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA
RJSchwarz
