Re: How to capture video best for keying

Keying relies on three things: Lighting the set properly, adequate chroma resolution, and adequate pixel resolution. DV blows because of the pixel quantizing. The best keys have those buzzing squares because that's what the pixels look like.
If you can't all three of those factors working in your favor, you learn how to cope. With DV, that often means suing several copies of your footage each processed with a different type of keyer, image enhancer, or matte filter. When you combine theam all together, you can get a lovely matte.

You can research chromakeying with DV endlessly o the Net and, if that's the only video format you've got at your disposal, you can get a DV-specific or DV-friendly keyer. One of them is called something like DV Garage.

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