Video FX - Blue Screen -

Hi,
Does anyone out there have any tips about using the various Blue Screen Video FX choices in iMovie HD-6? I'm not finding much help from the iMovie "Help."
Specifically:
1. Any good user books out there showing and explaining what the Blue Screen FX's are? A David Pogue book, maybe?
2. Under what circumstances would it be good to use one Blue Screen FX , say, Blue Screen Mask, rather than Blue Screen Mask, Smooth?
3. What do the letters "ss" before each of the various Blue Screen FX's mean?
4. What do the various Mask Extract, i.e., "Mask Extract, Blue, Shadows" do, and when would they be used?
If you have some tips about working with Blue Screen on iMovie I'd like to hear them. The tips don't have to be about the specific questions I've posted. I'm just trying to do some simple Blue Screen work on a movie I made, using a Blue Screen, and haven't had much success, so any help would be very much appreciated. If you have some tips about working with Blue Screen on iMovie I'd like to hear them. The tips don't have to be about the specific questions I've posted.

these effects are not iM's effects, these are part of a $$$ plug-in package from http://www.stupendous-software.com/
so, you will not find any articles in iM's Help..
there's a online tutorial on their website:
http://www.stupendous-software.com/Stupendous/Tutorials/Tutorial%205/Tutorial_5. html
Stupendous offers help via mail
[email protected]
... you should know, that you did purchase it, these plug-ins are NOT free.... ??

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