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Any Keylight users out there?
I posted this before with no response. Hope I get luckier this time… It’s a Keylight problem in A.E. 6.0 Pro. I’ve used Keylight several times successfully in the past and never had this problem:
I add the Keylight effect to my main layer (a green screen interview) and use the eyedropper tool to select the green color of the background. However, the color which Keylight “sees” (and displays in the sample box) is either purple or tan. The interview is professionally shot on Betacam-SP and the green screen is perfectly lit. The shot is exported from Media 100 at high quality (300 KB/sec), which has worked very well in the past. I tried re-starting, re-exporting and re-importing the footage to A.E. but the eyedropper still sees purple or tan where the image shows green. This happens with each of several inteviews. (There’s no doubt that I am working with the correct active layer in AE.)
By the way, to absolutely confirm the background color I scaled up the preview window to 1600%, at which size the individual pixels are discernable. They are, in fact, green. Yet when I placed the eyedropper tool over them, they still showed purple or tan.
I would appreciate any suggestions that you may have. Thanks.
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4 Replies
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Try using another color sampling tool like the text paragraph tool to sample the green color then open the swatch picker and copy the color value and paste it into the swatch of keylight and does that get the right color.
Perhaps you could export a frame and open in photoshop then sample the color and paste the value as described above if needed.
This is a weird problem that may have to do with color profiles specific to your format, which i’m not totally familiar with so…
Let me know what happens. curious.
Andrew
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Actually, I have been doing what you suggest — inserting the color values manually to Keylight. That does work so I can proceed with the project, yet I have some nagging doubts that make me want to get at the heart of the problem. I’ll feel safer with this project when I don’t need to do a workaround. Thanks for your response, Andrew.
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A couple of things to try:
1. Delete your preferences, restart and see if that fixes the problem.
2. Try different sampling methods:
– To sample the color average of a 3-by-3-pixel area, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) the area.
– To sample a range of adjacent pixels, Shift-drag over the pixels (this works in the color picker but I’m not sure about Keylight).JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
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always a work-around. then a work around for the work around. go figure.
Andrew
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