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DV Color Keying!! Damn the 4:1:1 world!
I currently use DV Matte Pro to Key in FCP. It does some remarkable stuff. Im usually keying poorly shot DV footage. I find from time to time rough edges in my final keys that I cant remove. I usually give my edits to a Symphony Operator who seems to be able to key much cleaner than me in quarter of the time with some Sapphire Color Key Plug In. When I downloaded the Sapphire Plug Ins Set I didnt see any color key in it. I was then told from the Symphony Editor it was only for Symphony (or Avid, Ive seen the same Key plug in on Adrenalines).
I mean, I find myself cropping the image in halves and keying different areas, using and tracking garbage mattes. I dont know if I need an advanced lesson in DV keying or a more powerful keyer like Keylight. But then I’d have to buy AE7.0 proffesional and Automatic Duck, about $1500. Any recomendations.
G5 Dual 2.0 GHz processor, OSX.4.8
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Keylight is also part of Shake…$500. That is what I use.
DV is a difficult format to key….did your friend on the Symphony also have to deal with poorly shot DV footage? I have, and it isn’t a picnic. I used Shake, and had to learn LOTS of new tricks. Hold out mattes, rotoscoping…the works.
Shane
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Here’s a trick I learned recently:
Color correct the shot to improve the saturation & even out the levels of the greenscreen or bluescreen. Export the shot to an uncompressed format. For use with either Shake or Motion, I’ve been using tiff sequences, but you can use 8 bit uncompressed or animation codecs. Pull the key on the color corrected clip, and use that to generate a matte for the original, uncorrected clip.
CCin to optimize the key will really make it much easier to pull the key, but it will blow your skin tones to hell, & make spill suppression much harder, so that’s why you need to apply the matte back to the original clip.
Arnie
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