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  • Keylight blurring footage

    Posted by Ong Joseph on June 15, 2007 at 7:21 am

    Hi guys,

    Need help urgently…I’m struggling with keying out my green screen footage i shot a while back. I used keylight and it blurred my footage after i keyed out the green. I adjusted Screen Gain and Screen Matte > Clip Black but it didn’t help. I tried a colour key and the problem wasn’t there, however, it was very tedious eliminating the green. Creative Cows…!! anyone solve this problem??

    Thanks in advance
    myx

    Tom Scoville replied 19 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Mark

    June 15, 2007 at 11:32 am

    Are you interpreting the fields of the footage correctly ???

    I have not seen this issue with Keylight. Have you added too much softness to the matte ???

    Mark

  • Ong Joseph

    June 15, 2007 at 2:30 pm

    what do you mean by interpreting my footage wrongly??

    Here’s what I did, I digitised the footage from a DV camera to my pc using Adobe Premiere. They are windows media files. Perhaps my object has picked up some green spill from the screen. It is blurry and a slightly transparent. Any solutions?? I did not change any settings in Keylight besides “Screen Gain” & “Screen Matte > Clip Black”.

  • Tom Scoville

    June 15, 2007 at 4:48 pm

    You might try capturing as DV/AVI files. Don’t know if it’s the Media Player codec that’s causing the blurring, but I know AVI can work well with Keylight…at least it did for me on Wednesday. It’s still DV footage, so don’t expect to pull a key as nice as you might with a higher res. format, but the results can still be pretty good.

    Tom

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