Imagine being able to make your dream set for videos in Photoshop and project it behind the hosts by  replacing a single color and not have to  bother with construction and the large expense of set design. This is not Science Fiction technology in fact, it exists in fact as chroma key better known as Greenscreen where an editor can take the green or blue color out and replace it with whatever graphic that they want. This unlocks almost unlimited possibilities and help anyone produce high quality video sets.

Unfortunately, however easy this sounds, chromakey is a semi new technology and although it may look good if done right, it could look horrible if there is one little variable off. Either way, no matter how well it is done chromakey always looks a bit cheesy and especially if the background itself is cheesy.Chroma key has a lot ofm potential and sounds affordable if you only need to buy a $50 can of Key Green paint, but whaty you are not realizing is that every little shadow will mess up the keying leading to the nessesity of expensive lighting kits and not only that, but you need a high power computer to do the actual keying because the technology is very demanding on processing and graphics card power.

I do believe that in the future as the technology becomes more developed and more advanced, that this will be a very useful technology because you could run a TV network and not have any sets but just a few rooms with green screens and design the set of your dreams in photoshop and not have to waste: time, money and space on a set. This technology can especially help the “Grassroots” video movement of people making video from their homes and instead of building a set in their houses which is not very plausible, they could use chromakey instead and broadcast from their basement or bedroom but, produce video that looks like it was made in a multi-million dollar studio. Chroma key has great potential but, right now, I reccommend only using it if you are a video professional or if you throughly researched it and understand how to truly use utilize it.