HDV1080i60 with Green Screen Footage
by Jennifer Stratford
on
Oct 15, 2009 at 11:47:30 pm
Hello!
Currently I am working on green screen footage in FCP 6.0.5 which was digitized with compression setting : HDV1080i60 1440x1080 29.97 fps
However, it looks very compressed and I see tons of artifacts in the skin and unforunately my keys look very stepped.
Can anyone out there please lend me some advice for a cleaner look to my footage?
The end result will be video-projected in a movie theater and I need it to look as clean as possible.
Re: HDV1080i60 with Green Screen Footage by Terry Mikkelsen on Oct 27, 2009 at 1:55:05 am
from the software website:
Intel-based Mac OS 10.4 or 10.5. PowerPC processors like G4 or G5 are not supported.
1 GB RAM
Adobe Photoshop CS3 or CS4, Adobe Photoshop Elements 6-8. Apple Aperture 2, Lightroom for Mac, and iPhoto now supported.
ps-None of my comments are meant to be gospel. Otherwise, I would write a book that provided all the cold, hard, fast answers that everyone assumes are out there. These are the things that I have found to work well with my shooting habits and workflow. Always try things out for yourself and deduce the best workflow for you.
Re: HDV1080i60 with Green Screen Footage by Jeff Pulera on Oct 29, 2009 at 7:43:23 pm
Hi Jennifer,
You're correct, Topaz plug-ins are for still images, not video. I'm a PC editor, but I can tell you from my experience with HDV and greenscreen that HDV is a weak codec, using 4:1:1 color. I've gotten much better results capturing HDV to a 4:2:2 codec instead (using my Matrox RT.X2 and Matrox MPEG-2 I-Frame HD codec).
I've read that you should try capturing your HDV to the ProRes codec for better results. And don't be tempted to go with the highest quality ProRes, the standard works better with HDV footage. So do a test and capture a brief clip to ProRes and see how that looks. It should definitely key better with 4:2:2 color, even though source was 4:1:1, it gets interpolated up to a better result.
