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Keying green screen AVCHD footage
Can anyone help me find a solution. I am keying green screen footage shot on an AF-100 and encoded as AVCHD.
I have tried both “BCC Chroma Key” and “Keylight” but I am getting jagged edges around the subjects.
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It is my understanding that AVCHD encodes in 4:2:0 and this may be why I am having issues. Does anyone have advice on a solution?
The best thing I could come up with is to us a “matte choker” to smooth the edges, then an edge blur to soften them. However, this means I lose small details like hair.
On top of these issues, the footage was shot 1920×1080 and I need to enlarge the final product to 4096×2304 before rendering.
I’m using Adobe After Effects CS5 on OSX Lion. I also have access to CS5.5 if there are any new features that may help.
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For anyone else encountering this issue, it appears to be a problem with how After Effects interprets footage using interframe compression such as AVCHD. Pulling it into CS5.5 produced better results, but still not optimal.
I converted a sample clip to ProRes 4444 and have received much better results. However, ProRes 4444 results in much higher file sizes, so now I’m pursuing an alternative codec.
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So is the best thing to up convert footage to ProRes4444 do the edit and then down convert it back to something more manageable?
-Brandon
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I converted to ProRes 4444, did the effects work, then delivered to the editor. I’m not sure if they continued to work with the 4444 or down converted, but I would imagine they kept the ProRes files.
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