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You don’t say what format you’re keying from. This could be an artefact from keying a video with low colour sampling (DV, HDV etc.).

Try switching Keylight to “Intermediate VIew” instead of “Final”. This turns off the spill suppression, so use another filter to fix any spill. Spill Suppressor or even Hue/Saturation will work a treat.

Hope that helps,
Ben

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I believe that the Encoder just takes the current comp settings with no way to automatically bump it up to best/no proxies/motion blur etc. So you need to remember to turn the appropiate switchs on (or off!).

I’ve got nothing constructive to add to the PPro issue :o) I agree, it shouldn’t be that tedious.

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It’s actually quite normal for this to take a while, especially if it’s a large project.

I’ve never tried to render out a project with Media Encoder whilst working on the same project in AE. My feeling tells me that it wouldn’t be the world’s greatest idea. If you’re that eager to keep working, then why not save out a copy of the project and render that in the background. I honestly don’t even know how great the work experience in AE is going to be with Media Encoder chugging on simultaneously. But there’s only one way to find out… and you can decide yourself whether you find that performance acceptable or not.

All the best,
Ben

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Just open Media Encoder, choose File > Add After Effects Composition, navigate to your AE project and pick the comp you need.

Then it’s just a case of setting up your settings and you’re good to go.

Cheers,
Ben

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I don’t know what problems you’ve had previously, but you can absolutely bring in rotation data from Mocha. If you want, use a null to contain the tracking data. Ditch the anchor point keyframes and parent your sky layer to the null.

If you can’t get a good track of the sky itself, then turn the sky into a 3D layer and push it back in Z-space. Scale it back up to compensate and you should get a good sky replacement.

Hope that helps,
Ben

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Thanks for the compliment. :o)

If it’s a plain wall, with good contrast with the hair then the above technique should work. You should only concentrate on the hair with one hi-con matte.

If you can’t get a good enough result using this method, then you’ve got another couple of options:

i) Compromise on your hair. Depending on the hair style, you can often get away with cutting out some the smaller flyaway strands without affecting the overall look.
ii) Reshoot, preferably against a good greenscreen. You will spend less time pulling your hair out trying to keep the subject’s hair in, if you reshoot with the idea of creating a key.

All the best,
Ben

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Should also add that you should follow normal keying procedure and draw a quick garbage matte first. Again, try and do as much of the main work using quick methods.

Cheers,
Ben

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Hi Ho,

If you’re talking about rotoscoping hair, then yes that is a tricky situation. What’s the final result you’re after? What’s the background like?

If you haven’t shot on a greenscreen, then I hope there’s good contrast beteen background and foreground. Here’s what I’ve done in the past:

i) Create a hi-con matte, using either luma key, or Calculations and Levels. This will not be perfect, but it is designed to give you a good edge key, to keep in details such as hair.
ii) Create an inner mask using rotoscoping. You can use mocha if you wish, or After Effects’ own tools depending on the subject. The idea here is to fill in gaps and remove extraneous objects not keyed by your hi-con matte.

The reason I do it in this order is because roto is time consuming. You want to do as much of the heavy lifting as possible with your key/hi-con matte.

Good luck,
Ben

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You surely can. Just use the Adobe Media Encoder to do the render rather than the AE render queue. In that you can specify your FTP details.

Hope that helps,
Ben

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Have you upgraded your graphics card driver recently? Your graphics card may not be suitable for the OpenGL requirements of the extruded text.

Cheers,
Ben