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  • Keying Prores 422 vs. Keying DVCPROHD

    Posted by Prad Senanayake on April 26, 2008 at 6:42 am

    Hi people….

    Xcuse the newbieness of this post, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
    I’ve recently shot a music clip using Varicam at 720p and have ingested the data using the DVCPROHD codec.
    But I have found that I’m getting very messy keys with Keylight… the footage almost keys like DV! Very blocky edges and artifacting on the blacks. I’m thinking…would I be better off recapturing the footage as ProRes 422? Would it give me a better key? And if not that, what codec would? Any help on this matter would great..

    Cheers guys
    Prad.

    Peter Van der zee replied 18 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Peter Van der zee

    April 28, 2008 at 11:51 am

    I would go for apples intermediate codec.
    It rewrites the file in seperate frames instead
    of referring, like in mpeg2. and it helps a lot
    to not have the artifacts your saying.
    I’m not sure if you´ll have to recapture
    I’d suggest you do a test of a small clip, traduced to intermediate
    or captured directly in intermediate

    vanderzee.tv

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