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Playing After Effects with alpha’s over live video
playing After Effects movies w/alphas over live video
We just upgraded from beta decks to Avid for our news editing. It’s great because I can now export my After Effects animations with an alpha channel and use them seamlessly within the Avid over video. We also run our opens right from the Avid and things look so much better.
What I want to do is to be able to run bumps and tags over LIVE video, but the Avid doesn’t export an alpha channel into ParkerVision (sigh, we use parrkerVision here). We have an old Chyron Infinit and Decocast… But both are extremely cumbersome to set up (especially on the fly).
What’s out there that will play an After Effects movie in real-time over live video (and generate some text)? I’ve looked at the Chyron Jazz and it seems to do some things; but it would be nice if it could also import Photoshop layered files.
thanks,
kurt murphy
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If you’re careful about LEVELS, you can just record the animations/graphics to tape (or on-air playback system) and KEY them in the video switcher via LUMINANCE KEY.
This will work as long as all of the video you want to key is above a certain black-level.
(i.e. make sure your graphics sitting are over “zero black” as a background.) -
Dave,
Wow, you have a keen insight… I’m currently looking at Chyron (but I’m a little gunshy because the Infinit is SO not friendly) and a couple others… Thanks for the input
PS
We have 2 people from Iowa (KTIV) that work here… used to have about 7…..
thanks,
kurt
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I hear from many people about Chyron being user unfriendly, but once you learn the basics it starts to make total sense, and actually becomes very easy plus the main thing about Chyron is that it is very fast after you set up templates, macros, etc. Things jsut fall together, that is why it has always been so popular for sporting events, things happen quickly adn you need to be able to respond almost instantly and the Chyron allows this to happen. The training is excellent if you can affford to go or to send someone.
Charlie
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Cool… I teach After Effects there….
kurt
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