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DVCPRO HD
Is this a cmpressed frmat? i’ve got some footage that i need to do some keying, and some oter animations, but while keying my clip deteriorates a bit, looks like compression is manifesting itself, could this be posible?
Also the clip was captured thru a deck using the firewire connection on the deck, is SDI better?
Thanks.
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Yes it’s a compressed format. That’s why the data rates top out around 14M/sec instead of 150 – 200+M/sec like uncompressed HD.
Keying can be difficult with DVCPro HD material if you’re just trying to use the FCP keyer. I use the FCP Color Smoothing filter but Boris Continuum’s chroma keyer for the actual keys.
No difference between Firewire and SDI capture as far as the quality of the footage or the key.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
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Yeah, it gets noisy. I ended up buying Shake and using it…making HOLD OUT MATTEs that seemed to work really well. That and the ability to take the ambient lighting of the BG plate and apply it to the FG person…very nice.
Yeah, I talk about it here:
https://homepage.mac.com/comeback/iblog/Work/B787268209/C836512295/E20060630005948/index.html
Shane
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