I have a video where I am against a white screen, but the screen is smaller than the width of the frame. Is there a way to remove the sides with a solid color? I don't want to crop, since that would cut me off. I marked the areas I'd like to get rid of. Ideally, I'd love to extend the background (I could create an image in Photoshop to do this). Any ideas?
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That's a tough one...
There are some problems with the shot in general ( composition, even lighting on the seamless ). I'll put your still up here with a black thing that shows what I think you can get away with as revised crop.
You'll have top of wheelchair wheels in the shot, and that's enough to show you're in that chair. I don't need to see the whole thing to know that.
Without getting into crazy long winded explanations... the gist of what's up in my head is this:
a) if you shot 4k you can put into 720p timeline and scale it up to get the frame I imply with black rectangle.
b) you can use AE ( maybe) and use some roto brush magic tool that separates you from background totally.. which becomes transparent ( alpha channel ) and then put what you want back there.
There was a recent post about a pickle coming out of a pickle jar that showed the AE result by some nice user who demonstrated the use of AE to fix problem, but for the life of me I can't find that post using the search function of this forum.
The problem was that the shot was a pickle jar and some wire attached to a pickle made the one pickle come out of jar and land next to it .. and that pickle had eyes and a smile on face etc... so the guy wanted to get rid of the table, a plant, the wall behind the table, everything basically.
So, that's one possible solution... use AE but that is pretty up there re: skill to use the program.
It boils down to using masks and targeting tones and colors to get rid of stuff you don't want. And it's really complicated for someone like me to do that stuff so I have no clue how to explain it to you.
Good going on shooting stuff using goal post and seamless and lights and stuff.. it's not easy to do that stuff in small spaces ( apartments or house rooms ). I really think you should look into putting source stuff into much smaller timeline and then scale up to get what I suggested re: black rectangle 'crop'. See if that doesn't work OK.
720p looks pretty good on TV and monitors even though it's not full HD.
That suggestion is really good... and might look really nice.
This is a cove .... your seamless rolls out ( opposite of what you have) and becomes floor as well as background. Just have to make it curve. Light it evenly.
Then compose the shot better... zoom in and whatever you can do with lens you have, camera location, etc.
Meanwhile, by all means, just fill in the stuff on sides and it might look fine.
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