Softening of footage after Keying

[Pete]

Thanks for the help, but is the fact that i have to reposition my taget around on the scene is that gona afftect the softness of the clip?

Thanks. again

[Steve Roberts]

If you separate the fields on progressive footage, it will soften. If that’s the case, select file>interpret footage>main and set field separation to “off”.

[Pete]

Actually my quicktime looks fantasticly sharp, actually not fantastic but it looks pretty good, but in AE even in preview look Good, the second i apply keylight, i’m able to pull a good matte, but there’s a lot of brak up in the footage, like my tafget is wearing a dark suit, looks fine, when i play or render my AE comp, it looks like there’s noise in it, i mean is dramatical the change, is almost like I’m goiing from uncompressed to a compressed codec, and my edges and detail soften, look ridiculous against a shap and beautifull 3d Virtual set we’re compossiting him on to.

[Pete]

Hey Dave I’ve used keylight successfully a few times, not enough to consider myself an expert, but i though this job would be a bit easier than the rest, guess again!…. lol …. anyways, my footage was lit ok, not excellent, but ok … anyways, thanks for all your help, i really appreciate it. thanks again.

mooooooooooooooooooooochas gracias! (would say a cow in spanish, LOL!)