Greenscreen and sillouettes

[Erdrick Holmes]

My friends and I feel like making our own homemade MST3K projects. What we want to do is make three people sit in front of a greenscreen and properly video edit it so by the time it's all done it'll look like siloutettes in the shapes of people watching a movie in a big theaters. Like this

http://www.mst3k.org/images/303/itstinks1.jpg

Exactly how do we go about doing this and is it cost effective?

[ZeZipster]

In Photoshop you'd just
select the Magic Wand tool
set it's tolerence to 1
click the green
hit the delete key to delete it
press CTRL+SHIFT+I (to select the opposite of the green)
select the Paint Bucket tool (make sure your primary color is black)
set it's tolerence to 255
click the audience

Don't know what you're using though. Hell, I don't know what MST3K is.

[Erdrick Holmes]

I mean video software. We need to record this with a camera and edit it so it looks like an audience is watching a movie, save it all (sound included) as an AVI or MPEG.

[ZeZipster]

Oh... Well I'm stumped! :D

[Shoeberto]

I think there's some OSS Linux programs with built in functionality for this, but if you want to do it on Windows you're most likely going to have to get a commercial program (believe me, I've looked.) Most likely you'll want to obtain (by whatever means you prefer) a copy of Adobe Premiere.

[Erdrick Holmes]

I'll see ifI can find somebody who knows how to use this.

[crono_logical]

AviSynth 2.5 (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57023) (freeware, for Windows) (http://www.avisynth.org) is capable of doing that sort of masking, but you need to be good at writing scripts if you're going to get anywhere with it :D