| | | | Show Reel - Digital Colorist Ntana Key
by Ntana Key on Apr 11, 2012 at 11:39:03 am
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Just a short montage of a few Feature Films, Trailers, Commercials and Music Videos that i've been a part of as a Digital Colorist | | | | |
| | | | Service: Jim Branstetter AKA RubberBullet Studio
by jim branstetter on Apr 7, 2012 at 10:22:37 am
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Highly creative and conceptual thinker with twenty years of design experience. Now applying that experience, creativity and skill to Motion Design and Animation. Using a passionate “can do” problem solving approach with strong design skills and produ | | | | |
| | | | Jim Branstetter AKA RubberBullet Studio
by jim branstetter on Apr 7, 2012 at 3:22:37 am
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Highly creative and conceptual thinker with twenty years of design experience. Now applying that experience, creativity and skill to Motion Design and Animation. Using a passionate “can do” problem solving approach with strong design skills and produ | | | | |
| | | | Re: Color keying problems
by Andrew Somers on Feb 20, 2012 at 2:14:41 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Don't use the "color key" plug in.
Use Keylight - it's included in AE. I have a quick sample below, and a further discussion of how to improve the key. But first:
WHY USE GREEN?
I want to say for the record that green screen is not a cure-a | | | | |
| | | | Re: Green screen - recording or post problem?
by Andrew Somers on Feb 15, 2012 at 1:58:33 am
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Oliver: "The screenshot you made, is that from the original or post? Yes, we used sharpening both on the camera side and post side - the customers wanted more 'crisp' and well defined edges. Should I have no sharpening from the camera side - a neutra | | | | |
| | | | Re: Green screen - recording or post problem?
by Dave LaRonde on Feb 14, 2012 at 3:39:42 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
[Oliver de Morassé] "We do infact light the green screen and subject separately. The subject stands about 4-6 feet away from the screen"
That's good news. Your task them becomes a matter of re-lighting. There is a difference between flat lightin | | | | |
| | | | Re: Partly brightness adjustment?
by Bret Williams on Jan 9, 2012 at 9:35:14 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
The 3 way color corrector should be able to do this just fine. It really is powerful once you learn how to use it. Once you've created a matte with it for the area you want to correct, duplicate the effect and invert the matte on the second instance | | | | |
| | | | Re: Keying advice
by steve agriosi on Jan 1, 2012 at 4:15:56 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I assume keying such footage wasn't in your first plan.
Even the backdrop is pleated. Anyway..
You may also have to dublicate your layer per filter such as:
extract
color key (the best part of it is that it's not an inteligent one )
color rang | | | | |
| | | | Re: birds flying under the text in the skye???
by Tudor "Ted" Jelescu on Nov 17, 2011 at 8:11:14 am
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If you have clear sky (blue) then it should be really easy. Use a keyer- Keylight is best, a smple Color Key may work as well- to eliminate the blue in the sky and just keep the birds. Comp that on top of the un-altered clip and put the text in betwe | | | | |
| | | | Re: Encore "Highlight" issue
by Curt Pair on Nov 2, 2011 at 7:14:53 am
in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum
Danny,
Thanks for your time and information. Since my original posting, I've spent quite a few hours researching the specs for Encore and making highlight buttons, it seems as though my search criteria was "off" for what I was looking for (or I d | | | | |
| | | | V11 Constant freeze up using sony secondary color correct?
by Don Cobble on Nov 1, 2011 at 10:51:11 pm
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I am using V11 to render out chroma-key footage to cineform. I am using sony secondary color correction to smooth out the matte before the chroma-key effect. The default gui in V11 is the oFX interface - I like the color wheel view. When I click o | | | | |
| | | | Chroma key picker not working ?
by Frank Doorhof on Oct 16, 2011 at 5:51:23 am
in the Adobe Premiere Pro basics Forum
I've recently switched from FCP to PP so it could be that I'm doing something completely wrong but I think there's something else "wrong"
I shot a video with a AVCHD camera (canon consumer type) against a blue background.
I've tried color key an | | | | |
| | | | Needing some pro advice
by Lisa Simonson on Sep 28, 2011 at 7:55:59 pm
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
I've run into a snag with this shot.
Explosion reflection in goggles with slow dolly into C.U., one lens.
I've tried alpha mask w add blending mode , color key, track mats, gradient mask,lots of things, yet every time I render the explosion seems t | | | | |
| | | | Service: Elan Polushko
by elan polushko on Sep 15, 2011 at 10:26:02 pm
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EMPLOYERS.
1997-2011
Soundelux/Ascent Media,
Editorial and Design work.
Chrysalis,
Pre and post production.
Warner Bros,
Post production and artist development.
J Walter Thompson,
Editorial Assistant.
BBC,
Editorial Assistant.
EDUCATI | | | | |
| | | | Elan Polushko
by elan polushko on Sep 15, 2011 at 3:26:02 pm
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EDUCATION. 1980-2011 Oxford University, Film Studies & Sound engineering, BA. GuildHall Collage of Music and Drama, Associate degree. Paddington Collage, Business Studies, Diploma. Video Symphony, Hollywood Institute, New Media Aesthetics. PRODUCTION | | | | |
| | | | Re: white background becomes pinkish
by Russel Xander on Sep 9, 2011 at 5:46:18 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
both whites are the same even by the eyedropper. the problem is that it should work with 2 tracks only. white solid on the bottom and the cropped clip on track 2.
now, in some parts of the video the clip is rotated, zoomed constantly, and I would | | | | |
| | | | Any advice would be appreciated.
by Mark Ramjohn on Sep 7, 2011 at 2:39:31 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Techniques Forum
Anyone out there who can advise on this: I need to shoot (hd video) a graffitti artist doing art work on a wall and at the completion of the piece, the artist then swipes the art off to the side with one hand (kind of like swiping pages on an an Ipa | | | | |
| | | | Service: Dennis Alan Flath
by Dennis Flath on Aug 16, 2011 at 3:34:35 pm
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82 Windsor Drive Egg Harbor Township New Jersey United States , Production, Animation, DVD, , Corporate Video, Motion Graphics, DVD Authoring, Mr. Flath has extensive experience in the development and production of digital multimedia products. He h | | | | |
| | | | Dennis Alan Flath
by Dennis Flath on Aug 16, 2011 at 8:34:35 am
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Mr. Flath has extensive experience in the development and production of digital multimedia products. He has served as Manager, Creative/Art Director and Producer of the Multimedia Group of the Safety and Security Technologies Division of SRA Internat | | | | |
| | | | Re: Dolly on a key
by Roland R. Kahlenberg on Jul 12, 2011 at 7:27:55 am
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Kinda silly on the pink markers bit but it should be 'keyable' with AE's Color Key effect. You will want to look at combining mattes from different areas (where pink meets foreground edge versus 'untouched' foreground edge) as well as areas in the fo | | | | |
| | | | Remove Black Behind Text
by Zack Hosseini on Jun 21, 2011 at 10:26:11 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Hello,
I am fairly new to Final Cut Pro and I made some opening titles in After Effects. I then rendered them and I want to put them over the video in Final Cut Pro. I know you can do the color key and remove the black behind the text, but I thoug | | | | |
| | | | Bleach Bypass > HSL Key
by Hillary Knox on Jun 21, 2011 at 4:36:43 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
In the Color FX room (of course)...Is there any reason why I don't seem to be able to take the output of a Bleach Bypass node to the input of an HSL key? It works, but it's keying from the original image instead of the image using the Bleach Bypass n | | | | |
| | | | Re: Removing white background from footage
by Brian Charles on Jun 21, 2011 at 2:27:48 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
If the footage is indeed only black and white you could use a linear color key to key out the white background and a matte choker to clean it up.
If you need more control you could use Keylight to remove the background. | | | | |
| | | | tif file imorts with white background instead of alpha
by Ed Caraballo on Jun 14, 2011 at 11:11:43 pm
in the Apple Motion Forum
so I have this tif file of a logo from my client. when i open it in Photoshop CS4, it clearly has an alpha channel, because behind the logo is the grey checkerboard. when i import it to Motion, either by importing or drop and dragging, the background | | | | |
| | | | Re: Dry Eraser/White Board With Hand
by Dave LaRonde on Jun 7, 2011 at 9:07:29 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
[Amanda Smith] "Any thoughts on how they actually did this as a whole?"
I'm going to guess that it was done much as Walter described with a hand tracing on a 2-tone green board. As I look at a still frame, I think I see a little green spill on the | | | | |
| | | | Premiere Pro vs iMovie Chroma Keying
by Marc Forman on May 18, 2011 at 9:25:18 pm
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Using Mac OS X: I import video I shot using a green screen straight from a Canon VIXIA HF R200 Flash memory HD camcorder using iMovie. Then I apply the chroma keying effect from iMovie. Works great but I rather use Premiere Pro CS3 (PPCS3).
I expo | | | | |
| | | | Re: Achieving this effect?
by Rafael Amador on Apr 11, 2011 at 5:11:07 pm
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[Christopher Travis] "The subject was shot against a white background, but the cameraman set the white balance to get the right skin tone as opposed to getting the background white, as a result the skin tone looks nice, but the background is pink.
N | | | | |
| | | | Re: Color correcting "roving white balance"
by Dane Henry on Mar 20, 2011 at 10:10:03 pm
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You could key frame the wb change with the 3 way.
-Set your WB, Apply a keyframe at the frame before the color temp starts to change
-progress as many frames as it takes for the color temp to change fully. apply a key frame and set the white b | | | | |
| | | | Re: Luma Keying Blonde Hair
by Max Jackson on Feb 8, 2011 at 6:19:54 am
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
Yeah, it was more effective in getting the matte reverse to come out using the choke. But I clicked color key on the thick yellow (anti-blue) trace and it turned grey (which I guess makes sense as they cancel each other out).
Minimax looks like a | | | | |
| | | | Re: I Need Assistance Recreating a Special Effect
by Cory Petkovsek on Feb 5, 2011 at 6:57:30 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
It's a poor quality chroma key heavily stylized to look good. Start keying out the yellow with "color key" or keylight. But don't key out all the creases, just the main color. Leave some residue. Then you'll have to play with how to emphasize tha | | | | |
| | | | Re: Green Screen Noise
by Carlyle Gordon on Jan 15, 2011 at 2:41:52 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
What format is the video you captured in? Is it QuickTime? Is it compressed? I doubt that is the issue though. I think the issue lie primarily in how you shot it based on the points I raised.
What steps are you taking with keylight? This looks VER | | | | |
| | | | Re: Keying Out Large Amounts of Spill
by Max Jackson on Jan 7, 2011 at 9:58:00 pm
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
I think I figured out something for now, at least it's pretty darn good for a beginner.
If another beginner is reading this, my issue was dealing with edge and spill in subject with hair blowing in the wind and spill covering roughly 50% of the ma | | | | |
| | | | Re: Getting rid of white backgrounds
by Roland R. Kahlenberg on Jan 3, 2011 at 7:02:49 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
You can use the Multiply Blending Mode if you don't need an Alpha Channel for the fishes. If you want an Alpha Channel OR if there are white areas within your fish then you'll need to create a matte for the fish.
You can try the Color Key and use | | | | |
| | | | Re: Ahhhh... !!! Rotoscoping Still Images
by Dave LaRonde on Dec 13, 2010 at 4:18:14 am
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
Actually, RotoBrush is intended for video. Your first instinct was correct to use the Pen tool.
However, if this map happens to have a single-color background, you could also try a Color Key or even Keylight.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer | | | | |
| | | | Re: Importing a tranparant image
by Michael Szalapski on Nov 3, 2010 at 3:37:53 pm
in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum
Gifs don't actually support alpha channels; they actually use a pretty weird way to deal with transparency. Here's a thread on it.
Basically, since it's a gif, you can just use the color key on the color where it's supposed to be transparent and y | | | | |
| | | | Re: Fly Over
by Dave LaRonde on Oct 22, 2010 at 6:02:48 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
[Airto Jackson] "Are there any foreseeable problems for keying if I'm shooting at a faster frame rate so I can slow it down in post?"
Actually, a faster frame rate will work to your advantage: there's less motion blur, which can make keying tough. | | | | |
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Basic Color Keying Techniques
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Andrew Kramer shows you the basics of green-screening using keylight. This is a sample of the training found in Andrew's Creative Cow Master Series DVD: "Serious Effects & Compositing - Advanced Techniques for After Effects 7," available soon. | | | | |
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