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Editing or keying, which first?
I have multi cam shoots done on 2 different days. One day of a musician, another day just a dancer (both on green). I’m supposed to combine the 2.
Should I edit it first in Premiere and then take it to Ultra to key and put in my background, or key first (to get a better key?), take back to Premiere and edit, and then back to Ultra again to put my background into the finished product?While I can figure it out myself by just doing it, I thought someone here might be able to save me a little time by offering advice?
Thanks in advance,
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In most cases, keying is done last. That’s unless the edit depends on the visuals. Otherwise, you a going to need a nice RAID array and all the CPU processing you can buy.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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I agree. Base your edits on performances then key last. Also, in the near future, if you’re upgrading to CS5, you can probably do all that in real time and if you like the ULTRA keyer, that is now included in Premiere that should work in realtime with the Mercury Playback Engine. The ULTRA backgrounds, however, are probably (almost definitely) not included. But you could probably render them out and bring them in as a background layer so you can work in realtime.
Paul Del Vecchio – Director
https://www.PaulDV.com
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