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Nov 19, 2005, 06:47 PM
 
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Nov 19, 2005, 06:56 PM
 
Looks Photoshopped to me.
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Nov 19, 2005, 07:04 PM
 
I searched on Macnn for this because I thought someone posted how to do this...just can't find it. But I believe it is some Photoshop thing.

Check out this stuff from MIT...looks real but you never know http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/simo...nNew/demo.html
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Nov 19, 2005, 07:36 PM
 
Originally Posted by stevesnj
Probably used that blue/green screening trick to get that effect... if his desktop was set to a specific solid color, it would be pretty easy to do.

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Nov 19, 2005, 07:45 PM
 
That's definitely fake. Done with some trick video editing software and a camera on a tripod.
     
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Nov 19, 2005, 07:57 PM
 
Uh, no you didn't. He moves the screen around. The backround doesn't change. This is video edited visual trickery, hence the 'ghostiness' around the icons. He probably set his background to a light blue or light green, and used a 'blue screen' plugin available for imovie or final cut.
     
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Nov 19, 2005, 07:58 PM
 
Stevesnj, that is not how he did it, that only works when the screen is stationary. This is definitely a green/blue screen trick as someone above said.
     
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Nov 19, 2005, 07:58 PM
 
Originally Posted by SuvsareRetarded
Uh, no you didn't. He moves the screen around. The backround doesn't change. This is video edited visual trickery, hence the 'ghostiness' around the icons. He probably set his background to a light blue or light green, and used a 'blue screen' plugin available for imovie or final cut.

tru...my bad...i was thinking of something else...
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Nov 19, 2005, 08:01 PM
 
That's how to do still backgrounds.

The video is done with a chromakey trick. The PowerBooks's desktop is a bright green to act like a green-screen, then a video feed of the desk/wall is superimposed like the map on top of the TV weather guy. Look closely and you can see the green haze around the edges of the PB's screen... A dead give-away.

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