HVX and Chromakey Questions

[Emre Tufekci s.o.a.]

Absolutely, Either green or blue, the kino’s make a great impact. They are now an industry standard in major motion pictures.

Ps: Added trick for green screen compositing/tracking is to use florescent (orange) tape to place markers and light them with a black light. It will not bleed in to your chroma key but will stick out like a sore thumb for tracking. Then you can clean them out by hand or by mocha.

good luck

Emre
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[Kevin]

Awesome. Quick followup Nate. When you say you gave the client a tape at the end of the session, is that a keyed video with an alpha channel or footage that you’ve monitored through Veescope that will be keyed later. Sorry if this is a basic question.

Warmest,

Kevin

[Nate Stephens]

Kevin,

Still working on that rap chroma Key?

What I was addressing is that with the MacBookPro, You could finish the entire project on location and get client approval for the delivery, or burn the project to DVD..

We have had the HVX200 for less than 45 days and have chromakeyed, edited and was paid last Friday by the client. We used the HVX to firewire (32′) to the Mac Book Pro recorded to mirrored external 2.5″ sata 160gig drives. In our city, nobody is accepting HD TV Spot Masters, so I found the best clip (screaming politician) exported it from Final Cut as a non-compressed 8 bit Ntsc 720×486 file, burned that to a DVD rom. I imported that to my OLd DUal gig Mac- Cinewave RT (yes Cinewave still lives) and did my compositing and final edit on a big 23 inch screen.. The Mac Book Pro 15″ is a little small for detail work, like chroma key crust. Veescopelive will not work on my G4 Mac. And I did notice to much green crust-edges on the talent. So I keyed the talent/client over blue, exported movie and used the blue version for final compositing.

I was amazed at the detail the HVX200 was able to capture, All on auto, auto focus, auto white, auto iris, auto money in the bank.. Way cool.

Which all means that when I read the manual, I should be able to get even more detail out of this little camera…

The Company, Tape Central, that I purchased it from said that they sold over 27 of these cameras from the end of December to the first of February. Most of them as a Chromakey package. It is great to be AHEAD of a trend for once..