WHich format for best Keying

[Steve Roberts]

You can always Google “HDV” and “greenscreen”, yielding sites such as:

https://www.sequentialpictures.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1217
https://www.dv.com/features/features_item.php?articleId=196602532
https://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=62949
https://www.hdvdp.com/html/green_screen.html

[Tim Kolb]

Also, Tim Wilson here at the Cow did an article on this very topic recently…

Beta SP has denser color difference sub sampling, but HDV has more pixels. I’d personally go HDV and do the composite in HD before downconverting to standard def (which is what I’m assuming you’re working in if you’re even considering Beta SP…)

All normal caveats apply…poorly lit and poorly shot greenscreen footage is largely format agnostic.

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[Tim Kolb]

[Dave LaRonde] “But how about HDV effects work for High Definition? Proceed at your peril.”

Hi Dave,

I think that “High Definition” has sort of divided into two tiers. The HDV/HVX200 images and the higher end stuff. I’ve composited HDV and DVCPHD from the HVX camera…it works if it’s well shot (just like any other format), but if you tried to mix this footage with HDcam or DVCPHD from a Varicam, it would be pretty obvious…

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[Tim Kolb]

[Dave LaRonde] “Sort of like the DV tier and the Digibeta tier of standard definition……”

Ex-actly.

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