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  • zMatte Keyer Problem

    Posted by Drew Walkup on February 25, 2009 at 8:55 pm

    Hi all,

    I have a timeline which I was editing on Machine A with 3 clips using zMatte Keyer for green screen footage. It also has a color corrector filter which was applied AFTER the Keyer. All 3 clips are keyed and work perfectly on Machine A. When I moved the footage/ project/ drive to Machine B, my timeline works fine and 2 out of the 3 zMatte clips also work perfectly. 1 of the zMatte clips is not working however. No settings were changed, it is exactly the same sequence with all of the same render files and footage.

    The clip looks like it is being keyed partially. The green screen becomes darker, but it doesn’t go away. When the color corrector filter is removed from the clip, the Keyer works in that it removes the green screen, but the underlying layer is not coming through.

    I have tried copy-and-pasting the Keyer and Color Corrector from one of the working clips to the non working clip and that doesn’t fix it.

    Anyone have any ideas of what could be going on?

    I’ll probably just end up re-keying the clip if we can’t figure it out.

    Machine A: OSX 10.4.11, 2 x 2.66 GHz Dual Core Intels, 7 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMMs, Final Cut 6.0.5

    Machine B: OSX 10.5.4, 2 x 3 GHz Dual Core Intels, 8 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMMs, Final Cut 6.0.4

    Thanks,
    Drew

    Jeremy Garchow replied 17 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
  • 1 Reply
  • Jeremy Garchow

    February 25, 2009 at 10:53 pm

    Different operating systems and different versions of FCP.

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