The Advantages Of Rosco Chroma Key Products & Why You Should Use Them

Rosco’s Chroma Key System™ is an all-in-one, blue or green screen virtual production solution, featuring paint, flooring, backdrops, butterflies, and gaffer tape. Each component of the system is designed to integrate with one another, allowing you to easily create a floor-to-ceiling chroma key studio. While the system components do work seamlessly together, each product is also designed to perform exceptionally on its own – ensuring easy installation and durability for any virtual production project. Below, we delve into why and how the unique features of each component of the Rosco Chroma Key System make them a superior choice for blue and green screen production.

Why Rosco Chroma Key Paint Provides A More Precise Blue Or Green Background

Thanks to its pure pigments Rosco Chroma Key Paint will provide a more even blue or green screen than hardware store paints.

While it might be tempting to opt for cheaper hardware store paint for your chroma key studio, investing in Rosco Chroma Key Paint is a decision that pays off in quality and performance. Unlike standard paints, Rosco's Chroma Paint is formulated with pure pigments that ensure vibrant, consistent color, which is crucial for achieving flawless keying effects.

White light reflections on a gloss green surface can make it more difficult to pull a key.

Most hardware store paints claim to be matte or provide a flat finish, but they often still have a 3 – 4% sheen reflectance, which can cause specular highlights. These reflections will read as white on the camera sensor, making it more difficult to key out in post. To combat this issue, Rosco Chroma Key Paint is engineered to have less than 1% sheen reflectance to produce an exceptional matte or flat finish and ensure a precise and clean background for easy replacement.

Why Rosco Chroma Floor Installation Is So Quick And Easy

While Rosco Chroma Floor might be known for its durable and versatile construction, it also excels at quick and easy installation through its dimensionally stable design. Manufactured with a unique, woven glass fiber interlayer between its two outer vinyl layers, Chroma Floor will resist rippling and waves as it’s laid out. This means that Rosco Chroma Floor is ready for installation the moment it unrolls, while other chroma key flooring options can take up to two days to fully relax and flatten for installation.

Rosco Chroma Floor features chroma key blue on one side and chroma key green on the other.

Rosco Chroma Floor is also dual-sided, with a chroma key blue flooring surface on one side and a chroma key green flooring surface on the other. This is particularly helpful for chroma key studios that need to switch between green and blue quickly. Plus, its wide, 78.7” (2m) width also requires fewer panels with fewer seams to tape - resulting in a quicker installation time than other, narrower, chroma key flooring options.

How Rosco ChromaFly™ & Rosco ChromaDrop™ Combine Safety and Convenience

An 8’x8’ ChromaFly provides a quick green screen background for an interview setup.

Rosco ChromaFlies and Rosco ChromaDrops overcome the disadvantages that often come with using seamless paper by providing a sturdy, reusable, fire-safe, and machine-washable option for virtual production studios.

ChromaFlies and ChromaDrops are shipped with ties attached to stainless steel grommets inside a water-resistant bag – making them easy to set up, ship, and store. They are also both manufactured using Inherently Flame Retardant (IFR) fabric – making them machine washable. This enables filmmakers and rental houses to wash and re-use them without fear of the flame retardant washing away or altering the color of the fabric.

How Rosco ChromaGaff™ Tape Can Safely Key Out Small Items & Props

Rosco ChromaGaff Tape can be applied to screens and displays for visual effects and then removed cleanly from the surface without fear of damaging the screen.

Occasionally, set designs require small, green screens to add visual effects onto areas that can't be altered using permanent solutions like Chroma Key Paint. This is where Rosco ChromaGaff Tape proves invaluable. Thanks to its adhesive that leaves no residue behind – the ChromaGaff Tape is an ideal, non-permanent chroma key solution for adding temporary blue and green screens to small props like phones, tablets, and small monitors.

How The Chroma Key System Creates a Professional Virtual Environment

Rosco’s Chroma Key System is designed to meet the diverse needs of virtual production studios, offering a range of products that can be used together or individually to achieve professional results. Create a full studio by pairing the exceptionally pigmented Chroma Key Paint with the easy-to-install ChromaFloor or craft a temporary setup using the versatile ChromaFly & ChromaDrop and the easy-to-remove ChromaGaff. Whether you require an entire chroma key studio or just a single keying component – the Rosco Chroma Key System delivers everything you need.