Screening through Steam - Green Screen or Black Background?

Hello All -
I am running FCP 7 and about to shoot a project that is microwaveable food 360s. They would like a steam option, shot on green screen. That sounds like trouble to me, and I are wondering if you would ever shoot the steam against black, and then screen the layer through on top of the footage in FCP with a blending mode? Would green schreen actually be a better way to go?

My real expertise lies with Photoshop and this is what we would do if it was a still photo and being composed, we'd shoot the steam against bacl and simply screen through to the hero food shot.

Would really appreciate your expert opinion on this. Thank you for letting me know your thoughts everyone!
`courtney

That's what I would do, but maybe make sure the camera is not close to the microwave wavelength,
I worry about that stuff interfering with digital data flow.

I'm hungry.

- Loren

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Yea. Shoot against black. Much better than shooting green screen especially on video, where the colors are subsampled.



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