Best Way to Key Green Screen?

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DVmatte Pro

http://www.dvgarage.com

[Jeremy Garchow]

Boris Continuum has a good keyer and plugs right in to FCP.

Keylight comes with AEPro. it works well too.

Shake supposedly keys well, but I haven’t tried it.

There’s some more options for you.

Jeremy

[Neil Ryan]

[Matte] “DVmatte Pro

http://www.dvgarage.com“

I went there … the site still talks about FCP 4 … no reference to FCP Studio/FCP5.
It has a forum, and a post from this month spoke negatively of the product, and says since purchasing the product over a year ago, there haven’t been any updates.

So my initial visit made me nervous, right from the start …

It has a demo version to download, so it may be worth the try …

[Tom Matthies]

DVMatte works fine with FCP 5. I’m actually rendering some green screen effects using DV Matte as I write this post. Currently running FCP 5.1. Upgrade when I finish this project.
tom

[Russell Scott]

I’ve downloaded the DV Matte demo… and I cannot entirely get rid of the green edge around my talent even though the green screen shot was well lit & well shot.

I’m not finding any documentation on this plugin and I’m just sitting here tweaking the slidders around trying to get a clean key.

I’ve sampled the high & low areas of the green.

Thanks gentlemen…

[Todd Reid]

another option is zmatte
digitalfilmtools.com

we get excellent results from this running fcp 5.04

[Jeremy Garchow]

Download the Boris Continuum Demo. It’s free.

[Neil Ryan]

Would pay to do some research into the Colour Smoothing filters (under Keying) including on this forum.

They can improve the efficiency of the various keyers.