chromakey

See also: chroma-key and chroma key

English

Alternative forms

• chroma-key
• chroma key

Etymology

chroma +‎ key

Noun

chromakey (countable and uncountable, plural chromakeys)

1. (television) The use of a particular colour (usually either blue or green) as a key in a TV studio in order to allow one image to be partially superimposed upon another, seamlessly

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

• Finnish: avainnus
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: cromaqui (pt)

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.