[Mac Guru]

Does anyone know how Apple did that effect on the new iPod commercial in the bold BG and black people?

I'd love to know if there's a way for Joe Consumer to do something like that.

Mac Guru

[Super Glitcher]

Yeah I'm no pro editor or anything, but it seems like you could pull something like that off with a good lighting rig for the shoot and minimal tweaking. If you lit the background/screened it and contrasted the figure you could make your masks pretty easy.

Or you could use corel knockout frame by frame =)

[k_munic]

seems to me some kind of bluebox effect:

put the dancer in a blue(or green) box

your video mixer produces an alpha channel.

place any color as background.

now, use the alpha channel, to generate a "full black" character. or, just low down the brightness of the signal to zero..

the "orginal colored ipod" is rotoscoping (=pic by pic hand cutted) or some kind of motion detecting after effect effect...-

doing this as "homebrewed"? FC(E) offers you some basic bluebox effect. but, tracking of the iPod...? enjoy