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Chroma Keying: Final Cut vs. Photoshop
Hi there,
I have filmed a series of shots of a person in front of a green screen. I have shot these sequences as a series of jpgs, rather than video.
In terms of chroma keying – would you suggest chroma keying and batch processing these images in Photoshop, or assembling them in final cut to be chroma keyed.
Thanks for your help!
T
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3 Replies
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If they are stills… all similar… I’d use Calculations in Photoshop and record an Action
Richard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and ATS:iWork
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I have done it both ways, and I would say save Photoshop to use if you just can’t pull a decent key any other way in FCP or Motion first.
I had some damaged footage that could not pull a good edge in any keyer I used, and that’s where I wound up using Photoshop on it. You would go insane painting individual frames in a long sequence, but recording an Action and applying it to an image stack works amazingly well.
Before I learned how to use Actions, a hand-roto job I was trying in PS took me two days. Afterwards, same batch job took three minutes! So learning how to record and apply Actions is well worth doing!
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Yeah, I have used Photoshop and it works really well if a bit of a slower process even when using batch.
Thanks for all y’all help..
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