Re: Premiere and Canon HDV

Green Screen in Premiere Pro is okay if you know advanced techniques like track matting etc. Best results use Keylight in After Effects.
Capturing direct to Premiere Pro should be fine if you have a hardware and codec combination that will record the 4:2:2 colour space. AspectHD by Cineform will record in that colour space from firewire, but I think the Canon only outputs the 4:2:2 from the component outputs, firewire might only have the 4:2:0 like it would record to tape. Depends on the complexity of the green screen action (hair moving, fast action, etc) 4:2:0 could still key something decent, but you need to know about advanced techniques in Keying, can take time to get a perfect key.
1. Premiere Pro, not made for powerful keying (matorx axio in PPro has great keying plugins).
2. AE for Keying
3. Make sure the colour space coming out of FW is 4:2:2 other wise you might aswell be coming from tape.
4. There are converter boxes that take the HD-SDI component cable run out to firewire - check the net for more.
- Jon :)