| | | | Re: Make a color transparent!
by Chris Lehmann on Apr 12, 2012 at 7:33:17 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum
What you are talking about is Chroma Keying and, yes, you can do that right in FCP7 by selecting the clip and going to Effects>Video Filters>Key>Chroma Keyer. Then select the color you want to key out and tweak the settings until it looks good. Howev | | | | |
| | | | Re: CS5 Ultra Keying Eyedropper Not Working
by glenn lock on Apr 12, 2012 at 6:49:21 pm
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Has there been any resolution to this keying issue using Ultra Key? I have disabled my 2nd monitor and tried a host of other things without success. Please help! Your message says that Adobe was investigating it, but I don't see any further feedba | | | | |
| | | | Re: Reducing noise
by Oliver de Morassé on Apr 10, 2012 at 6:41:19 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hi Andrew,
I've got a recording coming up tomorrow - I would really appreciate your thoughts on which picture style best suits keying.
thanks again for your tremendous input. | | | | |
| | | | 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. | | | | |
| | | | Keylight problem with intersecting lines
by Harry Clegg on Apr 7, 2012 at 5:14:38 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
A very common problem I encounter when keying is when two elements in the foreground intersect - two actors, an actor and a prop or an actor and his own body (eg an arm crossing the body). Whenever this happens I get an effect rather like pinching a | | | | |
| | | | A bird...
by Brecht Boelens on Apr 6, 2012 at 11:31:24 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hey,
First of all, I'm quite new to AE, so pls don't kill me if I'm asking obvious things here...
My problem is:
I have filmed a bird with a clear sky behind him, so I could key that bird out. The keying went ok, but what happened is that I | | | | |
| | | | Changing sequence settings for editing?
by brad hebert on Apr 6, 2012 at 10:35:06 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I'm familiar with offline editing, where the video files are smaller with matching sequence and then reconnect the hi-res footage later. But I'm curious if it's ok to simply change the sequence setting, in my case from ProRes to HDV, in order to rend | | | | |
| | | | 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: Feet on greenscreen
by clyde villegas on Apr 4, 2012 at 2:04:08 am
in the Lighting Design Pros Forum
Thanks, Dennis. Does this mean that the floor need not be lighted with the same intensity as the wall? Will this pose a problem during keying in post? | | | | |
| | | | Re: Feet on greenscreen
by Dennis Size on Apr 3, 2012 at 5:08:40 am
in the Lighting Design Pros Forum
Wow...you're really fixated on that bounce light on the subjects legs. If you're getting THAT much bounce that your subjet is keying out you're using too much light on the greenscreen -- and from the wrong angle.
You could also try minus green gel i | | | | |
| | | | Re: Feet on greenscreen
by Mark Suszko on Apr 2, 2012 at 2:48:13 pm
in the Lighting Design Pros Forum
Hit the feet area with a softlight to kill the shadows,then mask the area and adjust the keying separate from the rest of the key. but I agree with Dennis, that the real shadows are very useful if you can key them cleanly. Less work than making fake | | | | |
| | | | Re: How do I create an animated smile on a egg????
by Dennis Suryana on Apr 2, 2012 at 5:33:22 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I suppose you're trying to give a animated face on the surface of that egg? well, perhaps you should have booth footage of the egg and someone's face, then you use "keying" effect (e.g. keying color range) on the face and paste the layer on the top o | | | | |
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by Patricio Harris on Apr 2, 2012 at 4:59:05 am
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| | | | Patricio Harris
by Patricio Harris on Apr 1, 2012 at 9:59:05 pm
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MARCH 2012 - APRIL 2012 SHADE VFX : Matchmove/Tracking Artist Tracked shots for vfx also performed tracking on actors’ faces. The film’s director decided to use digital makeup to get a more distinct look for the actors at pivotal moments in the film. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Green Screen question
by Dave LaRonde on Mar 31, 2012 at 4:50:24 pm
in the Corporate Video Forum
I'm with Chris on this. For keying, there really isn't a way to improve the footage once it's shot.
It tough to overcome long-gop codecs plus bad lighting. Two terms come to mind: "silk purse" and "sow's ear". | | | | |
| | | | Re: Green Screen question
by Marc Lucas on Mar 30, 2012 at 10:20:30 pm
in the Corporate Video Forum
I will give the Keylight a go over the weekend. Would it make any difference in converting to ProRes first will it make the footage more keying friendly (losing the jagged edges a little?) | | | | |
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| | | | Re: Green Screen question
by Marc Lucas on Mar 28, 2012 at 10:08:19 pm
in the Corporate Video Forum
It's XDCAM footage.
I'm using dvGarage matte suit so when you say 'choke' do you mean blur the edges to try and blend the hard edges more? Because I have horizontal and vertical blur controls.
Is the footage problematic because it's also inter- | | | | |
| | | | Green Screen question
by Marc Lucas on Mar 28, 2012 at 3:25:52 pm
in the Corporate Video Forum
Keying some recent green screen footage. The greens were not lit as well as they could of been but still not bad results. I'm using dvGarage DV Matte to do the keying. I'm getting on well but one of the problems I'm having on one of the clips is that | | | | |
| | | | 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: Pro Res 422 Question
by Daniel Sametz on Mar 27, 2012 at 6:30:38 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum
Hi, Mike:
You can use Prores in SD without any problem.
I found that if your content is going to internet or maybe you are a student with a short film even some Panasonic cameras, like the AG-AF100, recomends Prores LT . Is just fine and it takes | | | | |
| | | | Re: Advise me with Chroma Keying in Sony Vegas!!!!
by Kelden Amadiro on Mar 26, 2012 at 6:00:03 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
Thanks Jim and Mike!!!! This is very helpful!
Two more questions:
1) I have two 500watt softboxes 9 feet away which obviously aren't lighting it evenly. (My room isn't wide enoguh to have them totally from the side, they are both sort of forward fr | | | | |
| | | | Inserting green screen logo
by Zachary Lamplugh on Mar 26, 2012 at 5:28:44 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum
So I'm new to graphics. Purchased a clip from revostock and I'm trying to insert my client's logo onto a business card. In fact, here's the clip I'm trying to use: http://www.revostock.com/Stock-Video-Footage/403756/holding-business-card.htm
I'm a | | | | |
| | | | 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: Advise me with Chroma Keying in Sony Vegas!!!!
by Jim Greene on Mar 26, 2012 at 4:05:15 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
Wrinkles only matter if they cause shadows. Your background isn't very green to begin with, probably due to improper lighting and talent distance separation, as Mike mentioned. I was able to get something out of this, see attached screenshots.
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| | | | 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: Boris Avid FX and Boris BCC
by peter mcauley on Mar 26, 2012 at 12:14:08 pm
in the Boris FX Forum
Hi Tom,
I think what you will find is that the keys and matte filters that are included in BCC 8 AVX and Avid FX 6 are about the same. The difference is how you interact with media in the Avid timeline.
With Avid FX, you apply a single instanc | | | | |
| | | | Re: Advise me with Chroma Keying in Sony Vegas!!!!
by Mike Kujbida on Mar 26, 2012 at 7:29:56 am
in the Sony Vegas Forum
[Kelden Amadiro] "Yes. What's wrong with it?"
The colours are washed out, it's fuzzy (out of focus?), there's a shadow (bottom right of the screen which tells me your talent was too close to the screen) and the background is not even close to bein | | | | |
| | | | 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: Advise me with Chroma Keying in Sony Vegas!!!!
by Kelden Amadiro on Mar 25, 2012 at 3:47:24 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
I appreciate all your thoughts but
1) The tuturial you suggested (both are the same) didn't work for me.
2) Boris costs over $500. I really want to get the Sony Vegas chroma keying, which I already have, working on its own. It should be able to wo | | | | |
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