Re: Realtime Chroma Key option for Final Cut (DVCPRO 50 and better)

Hello Eric,

Thanks for the response.

Basically here is what I mean by real time chroma key.

Have a shoot in the studio against a green-screen with DVCpro 50 and then take it into an edit suite (final cut) - and you can pop out (take out) the green and put whatever you want behind it and play it without having to render it. This is what Cinewave did years back.

So now that they were sold off, and some time has passed, I figured that maybe there were/are companies offering the same capabilities with DVCPRo 50 and now HD. (Taking off where Cinewave left off)

I have read around and people have a different take on chroma key and realtime based on how or what they use it for in their work flow.
Some people dont see a need in it, but for me its artistic freedom to take material and play with it how I want without rendering. :)

Basically I story board live -

From what I have gathered, Im not sure that there is a card that does this now.
But it appears that the cards may help what Final Cut started years back when I stopped using it...RT Effects. (and chroma I think became one of them.)

Some issues with this, however.
One particular one is that Final Cuts keying was horrible...and I doubt it changed.
I believe with Cinewave it used ultimate, and I got a fast, clean key each time.

My plan is to buy the Red camera Scarlet (3k camera) when its released...and I would love to play around on it with a laptop.
Now Im really pushing it.

Again, appreciate the response - how I see it I dont think what Im looking for is there yet.
Perhaps it will get out soon enough, as I have seen other people, here and there, looking for what Im asking for.

Best Regards

dAlen