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Blue screen or green screen?

I've heard so many thoughts on this over the years that I thought I'd chuck it out here and see what people think.

What would you say that the advantages and disadvantages of blue screen over green screen and vice-versa? Would you always prefer to use one over the other?

And how about other colours? Using primary colours was an obvious choice when compositing was optical, but do you think that digital keying tools can cope just as well with any other colour screen?

And, just as an extra bonus question, what's your keyer of choice?

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sambo

prepend "in my experience" to anything that resembles a hard statement.

Green is bad for blonde hair, blue is noisy, a gentle neat noise is good voodoo, "keying" often doesn't work and you gotta get in there and build your own spaghetti tree and switch colorspaces at least 10 times.

Primatte is actually good, but hobbled. PM in shake tends to give overly dense keys so people use it for core mattes but if you use fine tuning you can dial it back and massage it. PM in nuke with my limited time on it seems to have no way of deleting ops?

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