Looking for a choker

[Steve Rhoden]

As for edge-only color correction for keyed-out objects, that
specific type of feature isn’t present in vegas, but are
a feature in many chrome keying plugins…unfortunately there
isn’t a chroma keying plugin available presently for sony vegas.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Portfolio at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys

[Blahtor Magnus]

So, there is no Matte Choker too?

[Mike Kujbida]

As you’ve discovered, the chroma keyer in Vegas is somewhat limited in it’s capabilities.
That’s why I consider myself fortunate to have the Digital Fusion chroma keyer at my disposal as it has all these tools built in.

[John Rofrano]

> unfortunately there isn’t a chroma keying plugin available presently for sony vegas

Sure there is. I use Boris RED for chroma keying in Vegas all the time (Boris FX has the keyer as well). In addition to having several matte clean-up tools (including a choker) it has a Light Wrap tool that will wrap the light from the background image around the keyed image which really helps with selling the effect that the subject is really in the scene. It’s an outstanding set of keying tools.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Steve Rhoden]

Yeah John, that one slipped me…Boris is the only one available.
For complex keying jobs at times though i use my compositor.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Portfolio at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys

[Mike Kujbida]

CineGobs is a keyer that I keep forgetting about.
I haven’t personally tried it but I’ve read good things about it.
According to the tutorials, it has spill suppression and garbage mattes as built-in tools.
It’s a free download so you have nothing to lose.

[Blahtor Magnus]

OK, so there is no choker and no edge color correction in Vegas.
Are both CineGobs and Digital Fusion chroma keyer Vegas-compatible plugins?
Or are they third party apps?

I have BorisRed in demo version. Couldn’t figure out where the keyer was.

[John Rofrano]

> OK, so there is no choker and no edge color correction in Vegas.

Nope.

> Are both CineGobs and Digital Fusion chroma keyer Vegas-compatible plugins? Or are they third party apps?

They are 3rd party stand-alone apps that would require you to render your footage out of Vegas to import into them and then render the results back out into a 32-bit format that supports alpha channel to re-import back into Vegas. (which is why I use Boris Red) 😉

> I have BorisRed in demo version. Couldn’t figure out where the keyer was.

Try Filters | Keys and Matte | BCC Chroma Key and after that add Filters | Keys and Matte | BCC Matte Cleanup or BCC Matte Choker. Finish it off with BCC Light Wrap on that same menu and you’ll get an awesome key.

Check out the Chroma Key Tutorial on the BorisFX web site for more step-by-step instructions.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com