• Adobe After Effects

  Workflow for Green Screen

  Posted by Herminiocordido on October 24, 2006 at 11:32 am

  Hi guys
  I am shoting green screen for a project and i was wondering…
  1st: If i shoot in HDV, and then de-interlace in Premiere pro 2 (HDV), export as an .avi into AE, key the green and downsample to SD, does that make a diference?

  2nd: when i export an .avi file from Premiere Pro into AE, do i loose quality because of the color compression? What is the right path to folow if i am capturing in Premiere?
  Thanks guys, you rock!
  H

  Nick Esposito replied 19 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Nicholas Toth

  October 24, 2006 at 1:03 pm

  I’d de-interlace in AE. Also, out of Premiere I’d just use DV/HDV codec, don’t use uncompressed, because it doesn’t make a difference. You can make DV footage UNCOMPRESSED, but the quality will be the same as DV — it cannot ‘increase.’

  Capture shot — Edit accordingly — output timeline to ae. Thats why I envy you PC guys. Stupid macs don’t have premiere.
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  Nick Esposito

  October 24, 2006 at 3:18 pm

  The workflow that we use for HDV is editing in premiere and then exporting an hdv size MPEG2 that we take into AE and down convert onto a sd timeline (just by scaling). SD avi’s from hdv timelines in premiere looked fuzzy and bad so this was the method that we came up with from the boards.

  In terms of the green screen if you have many different setups it might be easier to key your footage in ae and export the keyed and composited footage with an alpha layer in SD before you edit in premiere.

  Cheers!
  Nick Espo

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