04-06-2023, 10:27 AM
(04-06-2023, 09:46 AM)Bluecortina Wrote: I was never a fan of green screen as opposed to blue. It always seemed to be blue then for some reason green seemed to become flavour of the month.I thought that originally with the introduction of colour TV, they tended to use yellow as a CSO key for background screen inserts. Then it was changed to blue, then later to green as there is a greater contrast to the talent if it's surrounding them entirely.
Of course, you can use any primary colour as a key. ITN used to have a red background curtain option for CSO purposes when they first moved NaT into the basement from Studio 3. I don't know if they ever used it, but I've seen a picture that shows one was present. I'll look for it.