[Adrian Scherger]

Wow, that did work well, I didn’t think it would just because it was alot more than spill. The subjects whole hands were pink, but it helped alot, thanks.

Another question, because of the poor lighting, the subject’s black outfits are very noisy. I increased the screen despot black and doubled up the image which helped but some of the noise is still there. What is the best way to “crush the blacks” on the image? Is there a AE effect similar to FCP’s 3-way color correction?

Thanks, your the man!

Adrian

[Adrian Scherger]

Bummer,

Is there anything I can do with my RAM to speed up the process. Currently I’m running Studio 2 with 6 gigs of RAM. Someone said it is good to have a gig for each processor. The 6 gigs is configured with two 2Gig sticks on the bottom slot and two 1Gig sticks on the top. I heard pairing them is better like I have.

Would it behove me to take out the 1Gig sticks, jump down to 4 total. Then put one 2Gig stick on the top slot and one 2Gig stick on the bottom. That way each processor would have 1/2 a gig to run on.

Thank for the advice!

Adrian

[Adrian Scherger]

I’m sorry…my bad. I’m using Studio 2 with FCP 6! 6Gb RAM

However it is barely using any. It there a configuration in the User Settings or System Settings that will get the most out of my processors?

Adrian

[Adrian Scherger]

Thanks! I’ll check that stuff out. I’m sure I’ll have a few more questions along the way. If I respond to this thread in a week or so with some more ques, will you be notified?

Thanks again Chris

Adrian

[Adrian Scherger]

Chris,

Thanks for your advice! A couple more questions if you don’t mind.

So it turns out I will be combining my 1080i footage with Animation, probably a series of animation stills like Targas. The final product will probably be WEB-BASED. I will need the animation, as well as the live footage to be as high quality as possible. I believe my best option is to deinterlace the live footage.

First, What is the Best way to deinterlace 1080i footage. With FCP, AE, or another software? Would it be best to go to 720p?

Second, will this effect my keying later in a negative way?

Thanks!

Adrian

[Adrian Scherger]

Jan,

Thank you so much. That helped out alot.

I am getting animation from an artist and it looks like I need to talk to him about what format he will be delivering so that his and mine match in frame rate and interlaced vs progressive.

I will have a few more questions within the week and you seem like you are very knowledge. Would it be alright to contact you via email with a few questions? I’m a couple years out of film school and landed in a sort of post coordinator position for the first time. I’ve been editing and compositing for a long time though.
Thanks, again
ascherger@mac.com

Adrian

[Adrian Scherger]

Thanks Walter.

Got a hold of an AJA Kona interface. Since I’m digitizing part of about 30 HDCam tapes, I’ll half to use ProRes for disk space. Hopefully that will provide a good key.

Thanks!

Adrian

[Adrian Scherger]

Sweet! Thanks for the advice. This is the first time I’ve used these forum and this is great.

I got hooked up with a edit bay with an AJA interface, so that’s good. With regards to the blue, the past shoot was shot in front of green and there was alot of spill onto the white skin of the talent so the producer went with blue this time. I’ll be keying in AE and there are alot of light shadows but hopefully it will be alright.

Thanks again!

Adrian