Greenscreen Reflecmedia my review

I thought I'd offerr my blow by blow on setting up and using some new equipment.

I saw some tech podcast highlight the reflecmedia and was really wowwed. The marketing worked cuz I bought a flex and light kit. It came with a small gadget bag to hold the light-ring, dimmer and the power cables. The flexible chromaflex fits in the large black bag under the other stuff in the photo-see my photos.

The bag was a surpise bonus for me. I snapped a still shot with the flash on so the reflective qualites of the background can be easily seen. This shiny silver will be green when the light ring - mine is green - is mounted to the lens of the camera and is turned on. It really is quick and easy to set up. I unpacked the light-ring and mounted it to my 82mm lens thread, turned it on and got instant green screen. I did not have to light the screen.

I didn't even light my subject during the trial run. I was able to put it on the NLE timeline and drop out the screen with little effort. And no lighting the subject or bakcground. I'm use to a more time on the lighting and using a waveform/vector scope to get the bkg lit jsut right. Not anymore. I set up a light for the subject and let it spill on reflecmedia background in the second test. I thought it would wash out the green reflection and skew the results on the timeline. As a second test I light the subject and did not let it spill on the reflecmedia bkg.

I have yet to put it in the NLE timeline to see the results but in the playback there was no difference to my eye in the green background's even lighting. I will post the two NLE results soon. For set up and lighting it took me less than 12:00 to get an image ready for green screen compositing. I didn't time it but I did look at the clock after three or four test records and thirty minutes had gone by. More on the NLE resluts with the reflecmedia light-ring and bkg.

more to come on the post side
-Nicky