Editing Compositing (section)

== Typical applications ==
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In [[TV studio|television studios]], blue or green screens may back news-readers to allow the compositing of stories behind them, before being switched to full-screen display. In other cases, presenters may be completely within compositing backgrounds that are replaced with entire "virtual sets" executed in [[computer graphics]] programs. In sophisticated installations, subjects, cameras, or both can move about freely while the [[computer-generated imagery]] (CGI) environment changes in real time to maintain correct relationships between the [[camera angle]]s, subjects, and virtual "backgrounds".

Virtual sets are also used in motion picture [[filmmaking]], usually photographed in blue or green screen environments (other colors are possible but less common), as for example in ''[[Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow]]''. More commonly, composited backgrounds are combined with sets – both full-size and models –  and vehicles, furniture, and other physical objects that enhance the realism of the composited visuals. "Sets" of almost unlimited size can be created digitally because compositing software can take the blue or green color at the edges of a backing screen and extend it to fill the rest of the frame outside it. That way, subjects recorded in modest areas can be placed in large virtual vistas. 

Most common, perhaps, are set extensions: digital additions to actual performing environments. In the film ''[[Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator]]'', for example, the arena and first tier seats of the [[Colosseum|Roman Colosseum]] were actually built, while the upper galleries (complete with moving spectators) were computer graphics, composited onto the image above the [[Set construction|physical set]]. For motion pictures originally recorded on film, high-quality video conversions called "[[digital intermediate]]s" enable compositing and other operations of computerized [[Post-production|post production]]. [[Digital compositing]] is a type of matting, and one of four basic compositing methods. The others are physical compositing, [[multiple exposure]], and background projection, a method which utilizes both [[front projection]] and [[rear projection]].
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