This is not the blue screen of death I am speaking of, but the process called bluescreening (also known as green screen, or Chroma Key).
It removes a particular colored background from an image so that it can be superimposed on some other video/still picture. If you have ever seen the weatherman stand in front of the map, then you have seen someone doing a blue screen technique.
I would like to be able to
- capture video from my webcam
- send that video to a bluescreen / greenscreen / chroma key program
- have that program replace the color in the background with a background of my own choosing
- Once the image is superimposed, pipe it into Skype for video conferencing.
Anyone have a good way to do this?
Best Answer
I can get a greenscreen effect with Adobe Visual Communicator 3 most reliably -- it has pro level chroma keying that actually works, unlike the other toy software out there. I tried 3 or 4, none of them even really worked.
However, I cannot figure out any way to pipe this excellent greenscreen in real time through Skype.
The ManyCam suggested by tgbarnett does work through Skype (and is free!), but it's primitive. I can barely get the chroma keying to work, even with a real green screen, and there are no settings at all to tweak to make it better. Darn!