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Clearly this is not targeted at webcam footage. Anyone who has had to manually remove a background using a tool like…",{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"24058855","jacknews","$1.98 per MINUTE? I thought I'd woken up in 1980. But I guess this is aimed at people making professional video presentations etc rather than for webcam meetings. It seems to…",{"value":63,"source":52,"evidence":64},"Video professionals, screencasters and product marketers making pre-recorded video",[65,69,70],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},"24059944","bitL","This looks like it's targeting pros like me who need to remove background from high-quality videos. The price is completely OK.",{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"24059265","pabe","Looks great and is exactly what one needs for professional screencasts if she doesn't want to fiddle around with a greenscreen. 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I imagine this can be useful for business that want to record small 360 of their products, but not invest in a big Physical setup.",{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},[107,116,125],{"value":108,"source":52,"evidence":109},"Pricing per minute is too expensive for hobbyists",[110,114,115],{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"24058534","tsherr","Looks very impressive, but it seems cripplingly expensive. I don't play with this much, but when I use my green screen, I'm often doing 15 minute videos, so it is well out of my…",{"id":78,"by":79,"text":80},{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"value":117,"source":52,"evidence":118},"Artifacts visible around hair, handbags and fast movement",[119,123,124],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"24059050","md5person","I think some of the artifacts on the video at 0:12 (handbag thing) are very noticeable. Same thing at 0:19 (cat)and at 0:28 (cat again). 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