Green Screen Studio

JGS specializes in virtual sets created with chroma key and green screen. This technique mixes two images together, in which a color or a small color range from one image is removed or made transparent, revealing another image behind it. This technique is also widely used in the entertainment industry.

The technical name for this post production process is “keying”, but is often just referred to in general industry usage as “green screen”. The color and texture of a professional green screen is critical and JGS uses only brand name green screen equipment as well as specially painted green screen studio walls.

Our studio features up to a 12’ by 12’ green screen and a cyc (rounded wall) can be added when head to toe shots are needed. JGS Media also offers portable 8’ by 8’ as well as 2’ by 4’ green screens that can be taken out on location.

With green screens the possibilities are endless. Many virtual sets and backgrounds can be purchased or created with very modest budgets – many with the look and quality of a high end animation studio.

JGS professional crews have found the best and cleanest green screen effects are created when using our top of the line camera equipment like SONY’s HDCAM or Panasonic HPX-500 P2 for high definition (HD) or SONY Digital Betacam for standard definition (SD).

We DO NOT recommend smaller DVCAM or Mini DV cameras or their video footage for green screen effects, as the image frequently bleeds or buzzes making the green screen key or composite look amateur or distracting.

We offer green screen services for NTSC as well as PAL videos; 60i and 50i in HD, and much more! Our expertise in this area dates back to the earliest forms of this creative and fun technology.

Perhaps our best feature is that we can actually begin post production as we shoot. We utilize one of our Final Cut Pro edit systems to directly import your green screen footage. Once in Final Cut Pro, integrated green screen software composites and creates your green screen background without the outdated need to render.

That’s right! Real time green screen. This greatly reduces post production costs and gives you more flexibility. For example, if you wish to do your own post production, we load the completed green screen scenes onto your portable hard drive or can rent you one of ours. We can make it compatible with your favorite NLE (non-linear editing), Final Cut Pro, Avid or Adobe software, to name a few.

It is true, a picture says a thousand words or the proof is in the pudding…so we’ve provided some before and after green screen examples, some of our latest work to demonstrate this technology.