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COW Tutorials: Apple Shake Smoothing the DV Jaggies
by Cow News Droid on Feb 13, 2007 at 9:06:45 pm

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Andrew Shanks demonstrates cleaning up DV/HDV chroma compression artifacts in Shake to allow for better keying.

Click on the link above to view Andrew's tutorial.

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Re: COW Tutorials: Apple Shake Smoothing the DV Jaggies
by Andrew Shanks on Feb 13, 2007 at 9:27:47 pm

Note, if the edges seem a little too soft (even with tweaking the amount of blur) try using a median filter, ...depending on the footage it can sometimes make for a more defined edge. :-)

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Re: COW Tutorials: Apple Shake Smoothing the DV Jaggies
by Nick Jushchyshyn on Feb 16, 2007 at 9:00:31 pm

Hey Andrew,
Just wanted to chime in to say that was a fantastic tutorial!
Great job breaking down the process and explaining the purpose of each step.
Cheers!

- Nick

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Re: COW Tutorials: Apple Shake Smoothing the DV Jaggies
by Andrew Shanks on Feb 16, 2007 at 9:05:41 pm

Thanks for the feedback Nick, I totally suck at doing these online tutorials but there seems to be a need for them so I'll do my best. I'm just waiting for the next tutorial to go online (keying). Hopefully it'll be up today.

Cheers,

andrew

:-)

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Re: COW Tutorials: Apple Shake Smoothing the DV Jaggies
by dash1969 on Feb 16, 2007 at 10:32:59 pm

Andrew,
I thought you did a great job in explain these tut.

May God Bless You In All You Do : )

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Re: COW Tutorials: Apple Shake Smoothing the DV Jaggies
by JP Owens on Feb 19, 2007 at 5:44:34 pm

Nice, and all... I couldn't see the entire tutorial, but I can see where it was headed.

BTW, there is a Nattress plug-in that does DV smoothing in a few flavours of 4:x:x. essentially doing the same thing, within FCP or Final Touch.

JPO

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Re: COW Tutorials: Apple Shake Smoothing the DV Jaggies
by Andrew Shanks on Feb 19, 2007 at 8:23:38 pm

Yes, it's a trick pretty much as old as DV (and trying to key it), ...I had a guy on the AE forum ask if it could be done in AE and I was able to easily rattle off the way to do it in there. There are even shake macro's to do similar things:

http://www.fxshare.com/shake/downloads/macros/keying/ParanoiaFX---Preproces...
http://www.fxshare.com/shake/downloads/macros/keying/2558.html

Its handy to know what the plugins are doing in case you are working at a facility that isn't running them and you have to deal with a nasty DV situation.

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