• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Keylight Issue

  Posted by Christina Ricci on January 5, 2011 at 9:51 pm

  Hi There,

  I am struggling with green screen using keylight 2.0 in FCP. Below is screen shot of the details.

  I cannot get a clean status view. I am getting green deposits in the white area that are showing in the final result as a shimmering black shirt with black spots on my teeth. I have read and reread the Foundry tutorials. My screen matte looks good and the green screen is pretty even so doesn’t seem like this should be a difficult key.

  

  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

  Christina

  Christina Ricci replied 15 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  John Knapich

  January 6, 2011 at 2:53 pm

  Like all efx there are many work arounds the more experienced you get. I am by no means a compositing expert, but one trick I picked up (used in FCP and AE) is to set the screen replace to source – this way keylight is not filling in green spill – then using Magic Bullet Key Correct Pro plugin to suppress green.
  Of course this is an addt expense. Most of my compositing gurus use Keylight just for the key, then Key Correct Pro for matte refinement.

  FCP 6.06, OS 10.5.8 2x3GHZ Quad-Core Intel Xeon, Kona LHe, Dulce Duo-eSATA 8 Drive, 4TB Raid.

  John Knapich
  Creative Director/Partner
  Assembypix.tv
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  Christina Ricci

  January 6, 2011 at 3:23 pm

  Hi,

  The inside mask trick is the way to go, Foundry advised as well. However, I now have a grey background on the Final Key? How do I get rid of this?

  

  Thank you for your help.

  Christina
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  Christina Ricci

  January 6, 2011 at 6:13 pm

  I tried every setting to get rid of grey, pulling my hair out. In addition, FCP keeps crashing when I try and save the filters to favorites.

  I would like to try and move to AE. What is workflow applying a mask here? It seems quite different than FCP with regards to mask workflow? Or can I dupe layers in AE and apply top layer with clean smooth edge and the layer below a cranked up version of keylight applied?

  Thank you for your advice.

  Christina
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  Christina Ricci

  January 7, 2011 at 9:50 pm

  Dave,

  Greatly appreciate the steps! Thank you for taking the time.

  Christina

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