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

From chroma +‎ key.

Noun

chromakey (countable and uncountable, plural chromakeys)

1. (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: 色鍵技術 / 色键技术

• Finnish: väriavainnus, avainnus
• French: incrustation (fr) f
• Galician: croma (gl) m
• German: Chroma Keying n
• Italian: chroma key m, chiave cromatica f
• Japanese: クロマキー (kuromakī)
• Korean: 크로마키 (keuromaki)
• Portuguese: cromaqui (pt), chroma key m, croma (pt)
• Spanish: croma (es) m

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To modify an image in this way.