[Alexander Pedersen]

Hello Walter

Thanks for the tip but I already tried that. That worked on some clips, where all the hair was simply noisy because of Keylight not doing a very good job. That trackmatte method or sometimes just choosing Hard color did the job there. But that along many other methods did not solve my problem with the edge of the hair – the thin blonde hair that should be somewhat transparent. The noise in the footage is BARELY visible even zoomed in 300% but it’s appearently enough to make keylight confused. So as you might figure the edge hair and the green screen must have been similar whether it be in hue, luma or saturation – I am yet to understand the technical aspects of it. I guess I need to do some more tests with lighting a green screen as I read Keylight wants the screen less lit than the subject – I actually did the opposite.

[Alexander Pedersen]

Hello Vince and Jeff

Thanks for the quick answer, and I guess you both confirmed me in what I thought – the link wouldn’t work and yes, I would assume it would be very heavy as both Neat and Keylight by themselves are pretty heavy.

And Vince, as to your workflow idea I made up a similar one also using the Media Encoder app. Didn’t realize its use untill now. I guess my problem just was that I didn’t want to do one clip, render, wait, and then come back for the next clip. But with the ME app I can queue them all up neatly and let it render during the night or something.

Thanks both of you!

[Alexander Pedersen]

I believe I encountered your same problem. Just coming from Premiere where my audio always played I was baffled by the lack of audio in AE. As it turns out, it’s just wired differently than video editors like Premiere og FCP. You can only get sound when you’ve got real-time playback, and that’s not too often you get that. In video editors you’ll get audio in realtime, and your video preview will just skip frames to keep up, but in AE ALL frames are played so the ‘real’ time is adjusted and AE just won’t bother with adjusting the tempo of the sound to match up. I believe that is what you are experiencing. If you instead do a RAM Preview (where AE will do a quick render of ALL frames in the selected area before playing back) you will get a video playback in realtime and then the audio will get played as well.

But on the other note. Sometimes I wish I could just hear my audio like in my video editor and just let AE skip the frames it can’t keep up with. I don’t know if that’s in any way possible.