Re: Recreating Aharon by Dave LaRonde on Feb 7, 2007 at 4:37:05 pm
I have both AE and FCP, and I can't think of a way to use FCP effects to do the same sort of thing. FCP just ain't got the same masking and effects abilities as AE. Sorry.
But you ARE on the right track. The DVCPro50 codec -- in conjunction with a real DVCPro50 camera, and not a DV footage captured in FCP using DVCPro 50 -- is a definite step in the right direction to better keying.
If you have a spare 20 minutes, track down a podcast by Alex Lindsay of DV Garage called "The Road to 1080P (part 2)". It's part of the MacBreak series. It's a great, not-very-technical explanation of why DV treats color pictures the way a baby treats a diaper.
Re: OOPS! You said Shake, too.. by Andrew Shanks on Feb 7, 2007 at 8:13:18 pm
Yup, Shake is kick-arse at keying, I use both AE and Shake but for those hard keys Shake is my first choice. I'm hoping to do a video tutorial in the coming days to post up here (well, on the Shake Cow section, ...I'm a forum leader over on the Shake forum) dealing with shake keying 101 (including dealing with DV/HDV, edge blending, and the concept of core matte, edge matte and tight garbage mattes, ...so will cover the shake way of doing what Aharon's tutorial gives you). There is a thread dealing with this on that forum at the moment.
Here's hoping I get time to do it soon!
Re: Recreating Aharon by spartacus on Feb 12, 2007 at 10:24:30 am
Hey Guys,
sorry for not responding earlier, but a virus infection got me down and my inner out;o)
Great to hear about the upcomming Shake tutorial, as said AE is great, but for FCP users Shake just offers a better workflow IMHO (that said, I have never used AutomaticDuck or anything similar, so maybe there is a better way than exporting an uncompressed intermediate to go from FCP to AE and back...?)
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