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Keying on DV and HDV
Since keying on HDV and DV is crap is there a way to take original footage and up to a better standard and then key? Or will aliasing be retained? The production doesn’t have the budget to shoot on higher end unless I can convince them.
Story, not pixels.
Jonathon Sendall
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I have keyed HDV after it has been captured as uncompressed 10 bt 422 via a Canon XL H1 SDI output. I would expect a better key doing this than trying with a DV file.
Lighting of the screen is critical. And the wise ones here all say that keying in Shake or After Effects is much better than FCP.
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Andrew Shanks did a couple of tutorials about using Shake to key DV footage. You should look those tutorials up before you shoot. You can find them via the Shake forum here on the cow.
Arnie
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Also if you use Nattress’s g-nicer or another color smoothing plugin you can get pretty decent results.. are you doing talking heads or more complicated stuff?
In a project I am working on I used this combo of plugins to get a good result
1 Nattress G-nicer (this cleans up the chroma ugliness)
2 color key
3 nattress Sharpened interlaced (set to 4:2:0)Nattress plugins are pretty cheap and come in handy here and there for sure..
Check it out!
Liam Lawyer
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[Arniepix] “Andrew Shanks did a couple of tutorials about using Shake to key DV footage. You should look those tutorials up before you shoot. You can find them via the Shake forum here on the cow.”
Or check out our new library mechanism. Click on the Tutorials & Articles link in the clouds above. You can search by author or key words
Kathlyn Lindeboom
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