When to use ‘Color Smoothing’

[Jeff Greenberg]

[Michael Lansdell] “‘Color Smoothing – 4:2:2’ and ‘Color Smoothing – 4:1:1”

They’re two filters meant to ‘assist’ the chroma keyer in FCP by smoothing the chroma channels.
One is for 4:2:2 video.
The other is for 4:1:1 video (mostly DV)

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[Michael Lansdell]

Thanks, I’ve always done that keying in After Effects so guess I’ve never needed to know that!

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[Rafael Amador]

[Michael Lansdell] “I mostly work with SD Pal programmes. I’ve often wondered about the filters ‘Color Smoothing – 4:2:2’ and ‘Color Smoothing – 4:1:1’. What are these for?”
Chroma Smoothing helps to rebuild the Chroma after Downsampling.
That one works when you edit 411 stuff (DV NTSC, DVCProPAl) on a 422/444 sequence.
For 420 stuff the only Chroma smooth filter I know is the Nattress.
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