Green Screen question

[Tom Sefton]

+1 for Dave’s Keylight advice about using the source monitor and clipping the black and white levels.

If this doesn’t work try masking off quadrants of your subjects body and keying each individually.

[Marc Lucas]

Thanks for the advice on this thread!

I tried with both Keylight & dvMatte pro and ended up using dvMatte.

The situation I was in was less that ideal the original footage had the green screen lit to bright ( I later found out that this was a result in there being to different shades on ‘green screen’ so they had to light brighter to compensate for this??)
I wasn’t happy with the ‘edges’ I got originally with dvMatte so when Dave suggested Keylight I gave that a go to. When I initially tried Keylight the first key I was getting was taking way to much detail from the talent and making things difficult. I also tried Dave’s suggestion of duplicating the layer and matting out the keyed footage with the original. That kind of worked but I wasn’t getting the results I wanted/needed.
I thought why not give dvMatte another go, I perservered and actually got a really good key right out of the box….way better that the Keylight key! My main problem was the edges I had but with some tweaking and patience I got a good end result.

In retrospect I like the ease of use that dvMatte has it is a very simplified way of working with only a handful of options/controls that make the keying process really quite easy. I on the other hand would assume that the deeper I get into keying and the like the functions of Keylight with enable more flexibility for more complex workflow.
This was a great learning curve and can’t wait to have another go! I think I’m going to download some stock green screen footage now and get more accustom with Keylight but for now dvMatte did a very good job for me and got me out of a hole!

Thanks for the comments and advice really appreciated!