Daniel Waldron
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Hi Andrei,
There are a few techniques on on inverting a key in this old thread. Maybe give those a shot.
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If there is a layer underneath what you are keying, you will not see the checkerboard, as the checkerboard represents the alpha channel of your entire composition, not one layer.
Solo the layer with keylight on it. If the background is properly keyed out, you will see the checkerboard behind your subject.
In Keylight you can also choose the screen matte view to check your key. Your background should be completely black and your subject white. If not, adjust the settings until they are, then change the view setting back. You should now have a layer with subject on a transparent background.
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Actually pulling a key means the exact opposite. Keep Keylight on. There is a small checkerboard button underneath your composition window that will toggle between the checkerboard that represents the transparent parts of your footage and your composition background color. This button actually has no effect on the transparency of your footage, but is helpful in determining how good your key is.
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Hi John. 🙂
Windows allows you to read ProRes files via Quicktime, but you cannot encode it, so there will be no sequence preset for it in Premiere.
You can drag a clip onto the the New Sequence button underneath your media or right click and select “Create Sequence from Clip”. This should create a sequence that most closely matches the footage. If you need to export a master copy, go with DNXHD. It’s Avid’s codec that is similar to ProRes.
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Are the layers 3D? If so, the shadow layer’s z position could be in front of the person layer, in which case it wouldn’t matter how the layers are ordered on the timeline.
If they aren’t 3D, you could always enable 3D for both layers and just nudge the shadow layer’s z position back slightly so it falls behind the person.
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I think ProRes is always a good choice for an editing codec.
Compressor is likely better at de-interlacing, but you could always keep it the same size and upscale the deinterlaced video in Premiere. No matter what, the clip probably will look pretty fuzzy next to the HD clips in your video, so you can always experiment with scaling it slightly and then filling up the frame underneath with an enlarged and blurred copy of the clip. It’s a technique often used on TV. I don’t know your particular use though, so just a thought.
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Great. Glad you found a solution.
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Guess none of my links worked that day. Must’ve been a Monday…
I updated the links in my posts, but here is the first one just in case:
https://www.video2brain.com/en/lessons/removing-an-object-with-clone-stamp -
So neither Cinema Tools nor Compressor are working? Do you have Adobe After Effects by any chance?
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Do you have a screenshot? I don’t quite understand what the shot looks like.