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# 2 18-09-2008 , 01:54 PM
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Unfortunately I never tried to use the gamma masks in maya, so I don't know if your idea is gonna work.
I guess that you will have to deal with some compositing software like After Effects (obviously, after you have adapted the camera movement for your 3d environment to that of the live action footage and rendered it).
Just to begin to understand this topic (in AE, but the concepts are the same whichever software you'll have to use), I can suggest you to go and watch some videotutorial about green screen by Andrew Kramer and Maltaannon at creativecow, videocopilot and maltaannon sites. There is also some pdf tutorial on computerarts.co.uk about tips and tricks from shooting to compositing in the tutorials section. They're all free and pretty useful.