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DVCPRO-HD & greenscreen
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Any experiences out there with compositing greenscreen shot on a Varicam to DVCPRO-HD 720p? I’ve only had to deal with D5 and HDCAM thus far…. and know better than to try an do greenscreen with DV-res files.
I’d probably load everything via SDI to 10bit uncompressed HD.
thanks for any tips!
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If you have the room and the drive capability to do 10-bit captures, do that. I have successfully keyed with DVCPRO HD from a Varicam, but I had to use Shake and hold out mattes. It isn’t as difficult to key as DV, but it has some tricky parts to it. Because it is highly compressed in the blues, it makes it tough.
https://lfhd.blogspot.com/2006/09/dvcpro-hd-green-screening.html
https://lfhd.blogspot.com/2006/09/shake-your-groove-thang.htmlShane
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thanks shane!
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I’ve been pulling a lot of keys from footage shot on an HVX-200, which uses the same codec. It’s a bit noisy, and sometimes keys with difficulty. I wound up pulling almost all of the final keys with Shake. If you go to the Shake forum here, look up the keying tutorials Andrew Shanks posted a couple of months ago. Even though he’s using DV footage in these tutes, I found them very helpful. In particular, there’s a neat trick about blurring the U & V channels in YUV color space to smooth out jaggies that really helped.
Arnie
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