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CS4 Green Screen Preset
Thank you Adobe.
We just upgraded to CS4 Production Premium. I modified my project from Premiere Pro 2.0 to CS4. The project contained perfectly executed chroma key sections that used the Green Screen Key function. The keys were very clean and more than adequate. Low and behold CS4 doesn’t have that same Green Screen function, so the sections have to be re-keyed. Now I can’t get them to look as good as they did before. Everyone keeps saying “use Keylight in AE”. Freakin’ Keylight removes the BG well enough, but at the same time creates a lot of grain/noise on the subject that WASN’T there before. Thanks a lot Adobe. You just set me back hours.
If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.
-Aaron
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I haven’t looked at the new keying options in CS4, but it can only be improved in my opinion. If it’s worse CS4, well I don’t know how they pulled it off.
We have a “perfectly lit” 10×10 foam screen with 4 kinos and talents shot 20 feet away shot on an HPX 500; there is no way Premiere will pull an acceptable key in the 2 instances we ever tried it.
I don’t like Keylight that much personally, but others rave about it. It does take a lot of work to get a good key, but it’s generally possible.
I however love Primatte, keys come out perfectly clean 95% of the time, with less than 5 minutes of work per clip. I recommend you give it a try, it’s not cheap, but it pays for itself as an alternative to Rogain.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Keylight in AE seems to work quite well – and it’s free. You can use the Dynamic Linking to open the PPRo Project in AE and then apply the Key. Or something like that.
And because I do it often I have to say that upgrading the system in the middle of a project is always a bad idea.
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