[Chris Figat]

I’m guessing you’re embedding the FLV in your flash movie? What’s happening is that Flash is compressing the animation again when it creates the SWF, to maintain the quality of your original FLV export you’ll want to link the FLV instead of embedding it. Lee Brimelow’s tutorials in the Flash section have some great info there.

chris

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[Chris Figat]

Think that may be it Steve, thought i had played with those but it looks like setting to ‘minimum’ gets me at least close to the desired effect. Thanks.

chris

i’m not random i’m tangent oriented…

[Chris Figat]

Ok, got the start/end thing figured out but still have no clue why the Echo effect isn’t working with a colored stroke. Any insight there? thanks.

chris

i’m not random i’m tangent oriented…

[Chris Figat]

Cool, i’ll give that a shot, thanks. and they do have the same plug-in for Final Cut, the problem in Final Cut Express (in FCE 2 anyway, dont know about HD) is that you can’t keyframe a garbage matte over multiple frames that i can tell, you can only set one shape for it. Kinda makes garbage matting challenging 🙂 I also already have the After Effects version of dvMatte.

Appreciate all the info, thanks.

chris

i’m not random i’m tangent oriented…

[Chris Figat]

Thanks Bret, one minor problem though, and that is that I’m capturing on my mac and keying on a pc, no firewire card on the pc. I tried exporting to quicktime and that did seem to work well, good suggestion.

This isn’t a big budget kinda project so definitely not going to be investing in digibeta or anything that cool, just doing some pretty straightforward video for the web right now. I have read a lot about keying dv and it’s challenges, been using an older version of dvMatte from dvGarage and it’s done a really great job so far. Tried with Keylight as well and dvMatte definitely did a better job with the dv footage.

Thanks for the help, appreciate it.

chris