Black Screen Keyer

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Dave LaRonde] “Your task will be difficult, painstaking and very, VERY time-consuming. “

Agreed. This can be done in After effects, but it’s going to be at the expense of some matte painting. Depending on your subject, it might take a while, or it might not.

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Agreed. This can be done in After effects, but it’s going to be at the expense of some matte painting.”

My own preference would be to do it in Shake. But this is where you get into personal preferences. Whatever program you’re most comfortable using is the best one for you to do this in.

Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
https://www.arniepix.com/

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Arnie Schlissel] “Shake.”

Oh, that old obsolete thing!? ;-D

Jeremy

[Nhan Nguyen dinh]

Hi Dave
Thank you for your advises. Up to now I use VeescopeKey which is marvelous, but not the Keyer of FCP. I am thinking if Veescopekey could help me.
Best regards
Nhan

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[Arnie Schlissel]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Oh, that old obsolete thing!? ;-D “

I start it with a hand crank!

Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
https://www.arniepix.com/

[Nhan Nguyen dinh]

Hi Dave
I will try to find what is rotoscoping and try to study that as you suggest me.
May I send by email you one take of my shooting ? (I am in Paris)
Best regards
Nhan

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[Nhan Nguyen dinh]

Hi Dave,
It’s my fault, I forgot to inform that during the shooting I did’nt think to “play” with the black background. Only, once back home, when watching all takes on the screen, I notice a beautiful black behind my carracter, so I have had that (foolish) idea in hjoping to give my film more richness. (it would be worst, I know, but the main essential thing is to TRY, as American people TRIES to go to the moon, and they got it !)
I have the habit to collect the maximum of informations to see if my problem could be helped or not instead of surrounding before the fight, in front of the struggle. Even when things seems to be impossible !!!
Now, owing to you, I know it is impossible, but I don’t regret for having tried it.
Best regards
Nhan

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[Nhan Nguyen dinh]

You are right. How to do that. Please guide me (I shoot in DVCAM. Then FCP etc… )
Thank you
Nhan

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[Mark Suszko]

Find a representative frame of your video in the timeline of Final Cut. mark the in and out point at the same place. Go to File> Export>Quicktime and choose “still”. Name the still. save it to the computer’s desktop. Come back here to this conversation, make a new comment. Where it says “Message”, just above the comment box, is a row of small icons; find the third one from the right, that looks like the front of a little photo camera, if you hover your mouse pointer over it it will say “image upload”. Click and follow the directions. Then we can all see it.

I have done rotoscoping using photoshop. It is tedious but CAN work, depends on how much work you want to put into it.

Some day soon, we’ll not have to bother with chromakey any more, because 3d stereo cameras and software will allow us to pick a spot in the z-depth dimension of a shot, and automatically exclude all other things nearer or more distant in the shot, by how fuzzy the focus is, or by direct reading of exif data about the lens settings thru an encoder circuit and user bits/metadata on the recording. And you will be able to pull focus and “depth-key” (TM Mark Suszko, 3/3/2010) in post or live… I will predict in less than five years.

Which doesn’t help your current problem, but it is something to look forward to:-)

[Nhan Nguyen dinh]

Thank you so much Mark. I have still image. I’ll do what you told me tomorrow, it is 2 o clock in the morning in my place now.
Best regards
Nhan

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