White Background behind talent

I have been seeing lots of web videos with talent standing in front of pure white background. Is that a CG type effect, or simply a white background and can it be achieved with FCE?

The way people often achieve that effect is to film the talent in front of a green screen (or in a "greenbox"), and then key out the green in an editing program such as FCE. You can then place a plain white color matte on the track below your video to get the desired result.

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