The 10×10 Chromakey Backdrop Kit offers incredible quality and performance at an unbelievable price. This kit is designed for head shots or in other words, framing your talent from the waste up.

Our muslins are 100% cotton and dyed using a specific chromakey color design for optimal performance with all major keying software and hardware.

If you’ve ever used a backdrop before, whether it’s for chromakey production, a Solid Color, or simply a decorative pattern, paper or cloth background materials, you know that the versatility, adjustability, and strength of the support system hardware makes all the difference in setting up your studio to get the shot just right.

Our chromakey kits feature a telescoping crossbar and we supply you with 8 heavy duty screen clamps which allow you to effortlessly adjust the distance between the stands to exactly the width of the Muslin Screen. This instantly smoothes out any wrinkle that are present eliminating the potential for shadows which will make keying difficult.

This background support system delivers the excellent versatility both as a studio support system and as a potable one. Perfect for smaller studio areas and location set-up where a Pop-up screen is not desirable or simply too small.

This entire support systems is extremely light-weight and breaks down into a small bag only 42″ x 5″ weighing in at approximately 5 LBS. Another great feature of this system is that the crossbar is ” Telescoping”. Meaning that it simply slides to the desired length from 4 feet to 10 feet wide. Other systems force you to assemble 3-foot long section together to achieve the desired length of the Crossbar.

The main problem with a fixed sectional crossbar systems is that backgrounds come in widths that do not match the set sizes of 3, 6, 9, or 12 feet exactly, so you end up with big gaps between the edge of your background and the support stands, or a sloppy overlap. This can cause problems especially in smaller studios where space is at a premium.

Our backdrop support systems will allow you to precisely adjust the width of the crossbar between the stands so that you can attach clamps from the stand to the background material. This minimizes floor space and is especially critical when using cloth background such as chromakey green and blue that require stretching to create a smooth surface.

SETTING UP FOR CHROMAKEY SHOTTING – The Basic Rule when setting up for chromakey production using a front lit backdrop system to get the same quality results like you see on the local News or in movies is; your subject needs to be 7 – 8 feet in front of the back of the screen, and the camera needs to be the same distance from the subject as the subject is from the screen. Do the math and that’s 14-16 feet.

Varying from this formula will almost always result in less than desirable keying results using Halogen Lighting and your NLE Video Editing Software to key with.

You should have additional lights for illuminating the background than the ones being used to light the subject to do the job correctly. If you don’t use separate lights for the screen and place the subject too close to the screen the Key and Fill lights used to light the talent will cast shadows onto the screen making it very difficult to get a clean key around your talent.

The biggest mistakes producers make when setting up for chromakey work is putting the talent too close to the back of the screen and trying to light the screen with the same lights they are using to light the talent with. Either scenario will only cast harsh shadows on the background.

Being that the camera ends up at a minimum of 14 feet from the back screen, you’ll need as wide a background area as possible to ensure your framing is filled edge to edge with the background to key properly.

Once again, shooting chromakey correctly requires precise set-up and lighting techniques to ensure crisp keys with most popular NLE editing software.

Our kits are well constructed and offer a build spec that will last a lifetime with proper care. Of course all components come with a 1 Year Factory Warranty to be free from defect. We too are producers and have many years of experience with everything from weekly Indie Filmmaking, TV Shows, Church Events, Chromakey Production, and Location work. Give us a call and let’s get you set up right.