shape mask in inspector plus keyer

[Craig Alan]

Yeah, I needed a grid or at least one point to use as a guide. I actually considered putting a self-stick label with an arrow on it on my monitor.

If you blow this up full screen, I used the three string retainers on the guitar head along the bottom of the frame. They aren’t perfect but a lot less movement than I started with. I don’t think they are floating around in the image like they were before. But I gather from your comment that it still looks horrible.

Even the fact that you notice the talent moving. The handheld cam was moving a lot too. Again just practice here, too many things wrong with the video to think of it as an end game.

Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[Craig Alan]

Hey Don, I learned a lot and then decided to just go with a black b.g. which keys just fine. I have an interview with the lead singer and will use photos she took that concern the story she tells in the song as a keyed b.g. It will be obviously be a keyed b.g. and therefore a bit more forgiving than trying to pretend its on location. It will do and I hope to reshoot with better framing, better sound, better lighting, better b.g. (the green cyc wall was too dark), and use it to teach my students what we did wrong and how to improve.

But you can’t beat a mess to learn a lot of new tools in a NLE.

Thanks again for your help.

Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.