chromakey

See also: chroma-key and chroma key

English

The practicality of green-screen compositing is demonstrated by actor Iman Crosson in a self-produced video.
Top panel: A frame in a full-motion video shot in the actor's living room.
Bottom panel: The corresponding frame in the final version in which the actor impersonates Barack Obama "appearing" outside the White House's East Room.

Alternative forms

chroma-key, chroma key

Etymology

chroma +‎ key

Noun

chromakey (countable and uncountable, plural chromakeys)

(television, film) The use of a particular color, usually either green or blue) as a key in a studio in order to allow one image to be seamlessly partially superimposed upon another.

Hyponyms

bluescreen/blue screen, greenscreen/green screen

Derived terms

chromakeyer

Translations

use of a color as key in a studio to allow an image to be partially replaced by other one

Catalan: croma m
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: väriavainnus, avainnus
French: incrustation (fr) f
Galician: croma (gl) m
German: Chroma Keying n
Italian: chroma key m, chiave cromatica f
Portuguese: cromaqui (pt), chroma key m
Spanish: croma (es) m

Verb

chromakey (third-person singular simple present chromakeys, present participle chromakeying, simple past and past participle chromakeyed)

(transitive) To modify an image in this way.

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