Need help with video spokesperson

[johnnyquigley]

I am helping a friend set up a website for his chiropractic practice. We want to use him as a video spokesperson. He is on a very tight budget, but does not want to use a generic video spokesperson. I need help in the steps in order to do so.

Should I use a blue screen or green screen or does it not matter?

The software I that I have available to use is:

Adobe Bridge cs3
Adobe Device central CS3
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2
Adobe Extension Manager cs3
Adobe Flash cs3 Professional
Adobe Flash Cs3 video Encoder
Adobe Photoshop cs3
Adobe ReaderS
Adobe Stock Photos Cs3

Is there any other software that makes it easy to extract the video from the blue/green screen?

[zuluclayman]

blue or green screen - it won't matter a great deal though green is more common for video - the main thing is that whichever of the two colours you choose, your subject shouldn't have any of that colour (or too close to it) on their clothing as the keying function in the video editing software will drop ALL of that colour out - have seen bad greenscreening where presenter was wearing a tie that had green stripes and when edited the stripes became transparent and showed the other background through it
lighting needs to be done properly too - otherwise you can get green (or blue) reflected onto clothing or skin from the screen and have that drop out too.
There are some good tutorials on green/blue screening on Youtube - just do a search.
As for video editing - you have an impressive array of Adobe software there - one of the suites I'm guessing. The unfortunate thing is that none of them are really any good for video editing.
If you want to stick with Adobe your cheapest option is Premiere Elements 7, a consumer oriented version of Premiere Pro but much, much cheaper (around AUD$100 if purchased as a download from Adobe store online.
It handles greenscreening reasonably well and gives many other options in editing - Picture in Picture, multiple tracks (both video and audio), lots of effects and transitions as well as good presets for rendering movies as flash, mpeg, avi etc. suiting most desired outputs, and is easy to use.

hope this helps

[yakkingheads]

There is a fantastic book 'Greenscreen Made Easy' that has all of info that you'll need to handle the greenscreen/chroma key part of your work.