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  • Chroma Keying while importing with FCP?

    Posted by Caleb Wellauer on January 11, 2009 at 9:54 pm

    Our school news station wants to do green screen, and we have the green screen and we know how to do the chroma keying once the footage is imported, but it just takes way too long and we don’t have enough time (and the teacher just doesn’t want to take all that time every single day to do it)

    Is there an easier way to do this in FCP, while it’s importing from the camera? (We import it live, but we also film it in case the computer freezes or something) Or would we have to find a different program (We also have Premiere Pro, could we do it in that?)?

    David Bogie replied 17 years, 7 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  • David Roth weiss

    January 11, 2009 at 10:51 pm

    Only if you have a video card such as a Kona card or another realtime hardware device.

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  • Stephan Walfridsson

    January 11, 2009 at 11:07 pm

    You could try Conduit which is a realtime keyer (actually a node based compositing plugin) for FCP and also comes with Conduit live which enables you to do live keying while capturing from firewire. (But not while capturing directly into FCP…)

    https://www.dvgarage.com/prod/prod.php?prod=conduit2

    Stephan

  • John Fishback

    January 12, 2009 at 12:23 am

    Checkout: https://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/VeeScope/Products/VeescopeLive.inDepth.htm#Live_chroma_keyer

    John

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  • David Bogie

    January 12, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    John, thanks for the link, cool product.
    The description seems to imply the keying is performed live during capture so all background sources must be rolled live. That is, the VeeScope Keyer does not appear to capture an Animation codec file that can be imported into a project and used as foreground.

    bogiesan

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