Chris Smith
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It’s my understanding that that trail effect was the main thing that CPT did. When you saw the adds for it (when the site still existed) all the samples had basically geometry made from a stream of particles. I’m sure if you had CPT it would be pretty easy.
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Hmm. I personally wouldn’t sweat it. TV is full of blown out footage, many times done on purpose.
However, I would try adding a levels, keep the whites where they are but darken the gamma a bit. It may help it a touch. The other option would be to go ahead and clip the whites a touch more and make it look purposeful.
But yeah, unfortunately with video, there is no more latitude left on the tape. If you clip the CCD, game over. Bringing down the whites will only make it worse by muddying it up.
That being said, I’ve seen some recipes with transfer modes to do an acceptible correction. Have to search the Cow archives for that tho.
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I use Commotion to track then use it’s ‘copy to AE Keyframes’ option.
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Very cool. I didn’t know silhouettefx existed. Looks fantastic.
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Commotion 4.1 still works perfectly in Tiger. As long as Commotion still has Roto/tracking/ and paint tools that smoke AE’s, it’s not dead in my eyes.
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Keylight is an excellent keyer. I haven’t used it enough to know all of it’s parameters, but many keyers have matte cleanup tools which include some kind of levels. Keylight may have parameters to crush the blacks and clip the whites they just aren’t labeled that way. But it’s very typical for keyers to have lev els built in to tweak it’s matte.
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Keylight is an excellent keyer. I haven’t used it enough to know all of it’s parameters, but many keyers have matte cleanup tools which include some kind of levels. Keylight may have parameters to crush the blacks and clip the whites they just aren’t labeled that way. But it’s very typical for keyers to have lev els built in to tweak it’s matte.
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The tutorial section here at the Cow and a LOT of video tutorials over at http://www.c4dcafe.com
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A typical part of the keting process is to clean up stray bits in the matte created from the key by using levels on the matte to clip the whites a touch and crush the blacks a little. Obviously this is done to the matte only and not to the greenscreen itself before it’s keyed.
Chris Smith
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