| | | | Exporting Green screen with alpha
by Jason Porthouse on Apr 13, 2012 at 12:36:51 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
Hi all,
I've had a request from a graphics house to give them some footage shot green screen as plain video with an alpha channel, presumably so they can comp it. I'm sure they could chroma key if needed but is there any way of getting the key ch | | | | |
| | | | AVID Chroma key THEN want to add opacity and color gradient
by Tony Mariani on Apr 12, 2012 at 11:05:20 pm
in the AVID Forum
I'm asking this question for an editor friend of mine who uses AVID 5. We have a close up shot against green screen that we chroma keyed. What we want to do next is make the close up shot into a lower third graphic (which we did) but then add an opac | | | | |
| | | | Re: Changing sequence settings for editing?
by Dave LaRonde on Apr 9, 2012 at 3:10:01 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
[brad hebert] "Also, there is chroma keying involved."
When you chroma key lower-resolution footage, you will almost always have to readjust the settings if you reconnect to higher-resolution footage. You would be duplicating your effort. | | | | |
| | | | Chroma Key Issues
by Jay McNally on Apr 6, 2012 at 2:33:40 am
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
I'm having an issue with chroma keying in which, my keyed image looks fine until rendering. Once rendered, thin vertical lines appear. I shot the footage with a Canon XF 305 at 50mps 1920x1080p and imported the footage through Log and Transfer as | | | | |
| | | | Re: Chroma key waving lines
by Shawn Miller on Mar 28, 2012 at 5:56:38 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Simon Ubsdell] "Good point - should have thought of that. It's just that I'd rather poke my eye out with a sharp stick than do this stuff in AE ;-)"
Fair enough. I wonder if this can be done in Blender... I haven't tried it, but I know it now ha | | | | |
| | | | Re: Chroma key waving lines
by Simon Ubsdell on Mar 28, 2012 at 8:00:15 am
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Shawn Miller] "Or... if you don't have access to a node based compositor, but do have After Effects, you can use the Channel Combiner to convert from RGB to YUV, then use two instances of Channel Blur (one for blue one for green) and then use anothe | | | | |
| | | | Re: Chroma key waving lines
by Shawn Miller on Mar 28, 2012 at 12:27:14 am
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Simon Ubsdell]"You can of course achieve this in the much more humbly priced Conduit. And yes, it's a good keying tip if you have access to any nodal compositor."
Or... if you don't have access to a node based compositor, but you do have After Ef | | | | |
| | | | Re: Tricky vfx door shot??
by Dave LaRonde on Mar 26, 2012 at 5:13:01 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Techniques Forum
[Kyle Moyce] "We have planned to use a greenscreen however the screen is very large and sticks out the sides of the door... "
There's nothing that says you can't simply mask around the door jamb, then key one background inside the door frame while | | | | |
| | | | Re: Advise me with Chroma Keying in Sony Vegas!!!!
by Mike Kujbida on Mar 26, 2012 at 4:15:12 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
I was able to key it like Jim did but your biggest problem is that the background needs to be a LOT greener.
Drop a solid green (it's a preset) on your timeline. That's what a chroma key background should look like. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Chroma key waving lines
by Simon Ubsdell on Mar 26, 2012 at 1:51:06 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Phil Hoppes] "If you know someone who has Nuke (I do) there is a trick for dealing with chroma sub sampled data. You feed your original track into a colorspace node and break it into YUV data, or in the case of Nuke it is YCbCr. Your Luma in now on | | | | |
| | | | Re: Chroma key waving lines
by Phil Hoppes on Mar 26, 2012 at 12:42:03 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
If you know someone who has Nuke (I do) there is a trick for dealing with chroma sub sampled data. You feed your original track into a colorspace node and break it into YUV data, or in the case of Nuke it is YCbCr. Your Luma in now on the red chann | | | | |
| | | | Re: Chroma key waving lines
by Neil Patience on Mar 25, 2012 at 6:08:18 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
You may have a fundamental problem trying to key material that has been originated on DVCam.
Both DV and DVCam use 4:1:1 chroma subsampling and although DVcam usually has s slightly better picture quality than DV, as the cameras and lenses are a lit | | | | |
| | | | Re: Chroma key waving lines
by Jerry Hofmann on Mar 25, 2012 at 1:30:07 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
http://www.dvgarage.com/dvmatte-pro has a great keyer for DV footage. (Not free unfortunately) Problem with it is color information... it just doesn't have very much of it. The originals were in a 4:1:1 color space. (not much info on reds and blues) | | | | |
| | | | Chroma key waving lines
by Mickey Power on Mar 25, 2012 at 7:52:45 am
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
Some greenscreened footage supplied to me was shot years ago on DV CAM, I just found out, and has been captured as Apple prores.
It seems to be incredibly noisy and while I can get a reasonable key off it, adjusting the edge thinning and softenin | | | | |
| | | | Re: Advise me with Chroma Keying in Sony Vegas!!!!
by Jim Greene on Mar 22, 2012 at 11:56:44 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
I tried the trial version of Boris Continuum and it does seem to work really well. I also just found this article to make the Vegas one work better, and it does seem to be pretty good. The key action is to make the green screen more prominent by usin | | | | |
| | | | Advise me with Chroma Keying in Sony Vegas!!!!
by Kelden Amadiro on Mar 21, 2012 at 4:51:51 am
in the Sony Vegas Forum
I am trying to Chroma Key in Sony Vegas. My background isn't 100% level lighted so I used the eyedropper tool to select the range of lighted area behind me. But I can't slide the low/high thresholds in such a way to make me all white and the backgrou | | | | |
| | | | Chroma Key/ After Effects Editor
by angel rose on Mar 20, 2012 at 6:32:15 pm
in the JOBS Offered - Higher Pay Forum
We are pair of young filmmakers based in Shoreditch. Our latest short film, entitled The Green Carnation, is in post-production and we are now seeking a skilled editor to apply chroma key effects to some of the scenes of the film.
The Green Carnat | | | | |
| | | | Re: Computer Question
by Jeff Schroeder on Mar 15, 2012 at 3:59:32 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
I am doing just fine with 4 tracks of AVCHD (24Mb/s) on an i7 960 @ 3.20GHz. When one of the tracks is nested and contains chroma key work, things start to slow down. I protect my computer from garbage build-up by having a second one that I can do | | | | |
| | | | Vegas Pro 11 Chroma key problem
by Dave Mack on Mar 13, 2012 at 4:27:04 pm
in the Sony Vegas basics Forum
Greetings all. I just tried some basic chroma keying in pro 11, have previously done well with it in 10, but now no matter what I do, the subject, (part of the image I'm NOT trying to key out) turns a dark blue, purple color. The exact same project i | | | | |
| | | | Re: FCP Boris Plugin Problem
by peter mcauley on Mar 12, 2012 at 8:36:44 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I suspect that the matte is not clean and has areas where the key needs to be refined.
There's a pop-up selector in the filter control panel that you can use to set the filter output to display the matte that is is generating. You should set this | | | | |
| | | | Re: Question for Steve Mann - Videotagger
by Stephen Mann on Mar 12, 2012 at 3:08:19 am
in the Sony Vegas Forum
[Ken Bennett] "You say you use Videotagger to create your credits. We know the Vegas version doesn’t really cut it."
I did use the Vegas scroller up until a few years ago. There was nothing wrong with the Vegas version, except that inserting or d | | | | |
| | | | FCP Boris Plugin Problem
by Jon Novack on Mar 9, 2012 at 6:48:58 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Hi,
I'm using BCC chroma key plugin for FCP. Whenever someone is wearing a lot of black, the black color will sort of sparkle/flicker a little...almost like there's black static in it. Hopefully this image can show what I'm talking about (will try t | | | | |
| | | | Re: Which is better Sony Vegas Pro 10 or Final Cut Pro X
by William Beazley on Mar 6, 2012 at 6:47:15 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
Dave,
We had a lot of trouble working with AVCHD as well. FCP 7 did not prepare for this well. Sony's advice on using it is posted here:
http://pro.sony.com/bbsccms/assets/files/micro/nxcam/manuals/25697_NXCAM_FCP_FR.pdf
The 32 bit softwar | | | | |
| | | | Re: Streaming PC?
by Craig Seeman on Mar 6, 2012 at 6:07:24 pm
in the Web Streaming - Audio|Video Forum
Sorry I didn't respond sooner.
Personally I think the best software solution is Telestream Wirecast. There's a COW forum for it.
It's both a Software Switcher as well as Encoder. It'll handle as many input devices as you can throw at it relative | | | | |
| | | | Re: Chroma Key lighting in tiny rooms
by Bob Cole on Mar 6, 2012 at 1:23:17 am
in the Lighting Design Pros Forum
Okay, I'm about to talk out of the OTHER side of my mouth.
Ken had a good point. By being heroes all the time, "Making It Happen," and accommodating the worst behavior of clients, we are to some extent degrading the profession.
The long-stan | | | | |
| | | | Re: Chroma Key lighting in tiny rooms
by Ken Maxwell on Mar 6, 2012 at 1:17:47 am
in the Lighting Design Pros Forum
Bob, Mark, Todd, Steve - I couldn't agree more than with your comments. My remarks were not intended to criticize, but to simply say that we all have a sophisticated technique that has revolutionized our industry and we have to compromise and innovat | | | | |
| | | | Re: Chroma Key lighting in tiny rooms
by Mark Suszko on Mar 5, 2012 at 8:42:27 pm
in the Lighting Design Pros Forum
What Bob and Todd said. Even bigshot directors don't always get to choose, and have to work with what's on hand. Kurosawa did a shot of a historic castle asnwas asked by some critic how he picked such exquisite framing in that shot. His answer, para | | | | |
| | | | Re: Chroma Key lighting in tiny rooms
by Bob Cole on Mar 5, 2012 at 4:27:56 pm
in the Lighting Design Pros Forum
[Ken Maxwell] " allowing ourselves to be put into the position"
Well, it's like this...
I ask for adequate space, I arrive, I find it is not adequate, and there really, truly is no other space to do the shoot. So it's cancel the shoot, forget | | | | |
| | | | Re: Chroma Key lighting in tiny rooms
by Todd Terry on Mar 5, 2012 at 4:21:08 pm
in the Lighting Design Pros Forum
[Ken Maxwell] "Surely we should insist upon adequate space to satisfactorily perform this marvelous technique."
Sure, in theory, but it doesn't work that way in the real world. Some times you just gotta do what you gotta do.
If, say, a corpo | | | | |
| | | | Re: Chroma Key lighting in tiny rooms
by Ken Maxwell on Mar 5, 2012 at 4:06:29 pm
in the Lighting Design Pros Forum
I find it incredible that we in the production community are allowing ourselves to be put into the position of shooting a complicated process, such as chroma-keying, in a limited space such as a hallway or small location room.
Chroma-key, and/or gr | | | | |
| | | | Re: Chroma Key lighting in tiny rooms
by Steve Kownacki on Mar 4, 2012 at 10:32:15 pm
in the Lighting Design Pros Forum
Here's a shot we did in a 6' wide hallway. Simply shot some Tota's against the white wall on the right and against white foamcore on the left; provided plenty of even light - see monitor on floor.
I do find Kino's nice when I have the rental b | | | | |
| | | | Re: Chroma Key lighting in tiny rooms
by Todd Terry on Mar 4, 2012 at 9:55:33 pm
in the Lighting Design Pros Forum
The ring-right systems that Mark mentioned work well in small spaces like you described. But... you said you weren't looking to spend a lot, and those are pretty wildly expensive.
If you don't mind looking a little bit like a do-it-yourselfer (or | | | | |
| | | | Chroma Key lighting in tiny rooms
by Bob Cole on Mar 4, 2012 at 5:53:28 pm
in the Lighting Design Pros Forum
More and more, I'm getting called upon to shoot a location chroma key in a tiny space. I usually use Mole Nooklites, which are great with their permanently-attached barndoors, both for evenness of pattern (left to right) and for preventing spill.
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| | | | Service: Vision House
by Luke Milton on Feb 29, 2012 at 2:48:01 pm
in the COW - Services Forum
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| | | | Vision House
by Luke Milton on Feb 29, 2012 at 6:48:01 am
in the Forum
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