Green Screen Workflow
by Derek Shin
on
Oct 29, 2007 at 10:12:02 pm
I'm editing a kids pilot shot on green screen with several cuts and scenes. What is the standard workflow for this kind of project? Should I key out all my footage first and then import into FCP? Or should I make my edits in FCP first and then bring it back into AFX to pull keys?
Re: Green Screen Workflow by Ken Ecker on Oct 29, 2007 at 10:51:41 pm
I've been doing this a lot lately. I'd highly recommend buying Automatic Duck Pro Import AE. Edit in FCP, export the xml for work in AE, then finish there. It's one less step of potential compression.
Re: Green Screen Workflow by Mister T. on Oct 29, 2007 at 11:05:30 pm
Hey Derek,
You defenitly start editing the video in FCP and then export all your cuts for AE.(QT export)
Be sure your edit is approved by the client(with still the key). Aldo they probebly wont know what you are talking about...but try.
Or buy Automatic duck. But its expensive.
Or use Premiere Pro, who's better integrated with AE.
I think for keying PP is the best option. FCP and keying is not very nice.
But there are some plugins..
T.
MacPRo intel quad core 2 G RAM
External Maxtor & Iomega disks
AE 7.0, CS PSD & AI
FCP 5.1 studio
C4d R10
Re: Green Screen Workflow by Mister T. on Oct 29, 2007 at 11:06:23 pm
Hey Derek,
You defenitly start editing the video in FCP and then export all your cuts for AE.(QT export)
Be sure your edit is approved by the client(with still the key). Aldo they probebly wont know what you are talking about...but try.
Or buy Automatic duck. But its expensive.
Or use Premiere Pro, who's better integrated with AE.
I think for keying PP is the best option. FCP and keying is not very nice.
But there are some plugins..
T.
MacPRo intel quad core 2 G RAM
External Maxtor & Iomega disks
AE 7.0, CS PSD & AI
FCP 5.1 studio
C4d R10
Re: Green Screen Workflow by Dave LaRonde on Oct 30, 2007 at 3:40:40 pm
As mentioned above you will most definitely want Automatic Duck for this task. It will be a great time and work saver for you. If this were simply a one-off project, you could get away with exporting quicktimes... but it won't be. Save your sanity. Get the Duck.
