Keying in FCP – what plugins do you recommend?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Erik Lindahl] “Automatic duck is also EXTREMELY sensitive to file naming and such,”

Not really sure what you’re talking about there. I’ve been using the Duck probably three years now and haven’t had any file name issues with it. Final Touch HD, yeah, but not the Duck.

What kind of issues do you get with file names?

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[Erik Lindahl]

I don’t think Automatic Duck handles internatinal langues at all. It has issues with filenames that are to long. It seems it also has issues with file paths which are too long or contains non-standard english ABCD etc language. It also has issues with sequence names with the above…

This is for move quite annoying and time consuming since I quite often use Swedish charachters as well as stuff like quotation marks. The plugin give me, I reckon, more warnings than it just works (9 out of 10 times it’s filename or filepath related).

I find this quite strange in year 2006 on MacOSX, but hey… You can’t have it all 🙂

[Jadranko Gudan]

You can check some Aja Kona cards as I think that they are able to do real time keying. Kona LH is under $2000 so if you really have more then several hundreds of shots to key it could be worth to check it.

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[Erik Lindahl]

Our main editing suite has a Kona LHe. As far as I know, the card only handles “video out with key” that is sending out video with an alpha-channel and/or compositing video going into the system with a stream going out from the system. It doesn’t mean it handles the actually green-screen keying in realtime. But I might be wrong here.