[David Dubois]

I get grainy footage when keying with keylight as well – probably caused in part by the light grey mentioned earlier.

The way I get around it is to key the footage until it’s as good as I can get it, then use the keyed footage as a trackmatte for a duplicate of the layer.
All that I have to do then is a bit of spill supression and Bob’s your uncle.

Just to clarify:
1)key layer
2)duplicate keyed layer, remove effects from duplicate layer and move it below the keyed footage
3)trackmatte the keyed footage onto the duplicate layer.

Hope taht helps.

Dave

Currently working on ‘Lookin’ For Lucky’ – Feature Film for Albino Injun Productions.

http://www.lookinforlucky.co.uk

[David Dubois]

Thanks.

I’ll go and read up on that now.

Dave

Currently working on ‘Lookin’ For Lucky’ – Feature Film for Albino Injun Productions.

http://www.lookinforlucky.co.uk

[David Dubois]

Thanks Jerry. You’re a star!

Dave

Currently working on ‘Lookin’ For Lucky’ – Feature Film for Albino Injun Productions.

http://www.lookinforlucky.co.uk

[David Dubois]

Brilliant! Thanks guys!

I’ll try the filter before I double up layers (so as not to cause issues in soundtrack later).

Dave

Currently working on ‘Lookin’ For Lucky’ – Feature Film for Albino Injun Productions.

http://www.lookinforlucky.co.uk

[David Dubois]

Great Idea!

Maybe in a seperate forum on the cow?

Currently working on ‘Lookin’ For Lucky’ – Feature Film for Albino Injun Productions.

http://www.lookinforlucky.co.uk

[David Dubois]

Thanks for all of the ideas.
I suspected expression might have to rear their ugly heads (I am trying to use them more)! and the Null objects also cleanedd up the process a bit.
As I’ve done a dirty fix on the problem It’s working for now BUT when I’ve finished cutting the film I’ll try these out and feedback with any questions/comments.

Thanks to all again for helping to clean up my dirty, dirty process!

Dave

G5 2.5 Dual
2.5 gig ram
x800 xt
1TB media storage
23″ Cinema display
19″ IBM LCD – used for Cinema Display
FCP Studio (FCP 5.1.2)
After Effects 7
Shake 4

Currently working on ‘Lookin’ For Lucky’
Feature Film for Albino Injun Productions.
http://www.lookinforlucky.co.uk

[David Dubois]

Right, so after my moment of inspiration I’ve done it.

It’s a very dirty technique and there MUST be a simpler way of doing this but here’s how I did it:

1) Stabilise the shot and clean up the plate. – ‘Clean Plate Comp’

2) Create a red solid at the same size as your source footage and parent it to the stabilised footage (thus using it’s movement from the stabilisation). Position this solid above your footage.

3) Duplicate the red solid and change the top red solid to a white solid (layer options)

4) Using the mask tool, create two very small and thin crosses in diagonally opposite corners. Make sure that the centre point is about 10 pixels away from the corner.

5) Increase the size of the ‘Clean Plate Comp’ until it contains ALL of the movement from the stabilised frame. i.e. you must have a black border all around your newly created red frame with white crosses.

6) Precomp the ‘Clean Plate Comp’ into a comp of the same size (the easiest way to do this is to drag your ‘Clean Plate Comp’ onto the ‘create new comp’ button in the project window.

7) Go into the new comp and stabilise the white crosses using position and rotation options and apply the results.

8) Reduce the size of your new comp back to the size of the original footage and check the results.

You may need to tweak the occasional frame but mine was perfect first time!

Feel free to ask any questions and I’ll do my best to answer them.

Happy stabilising, plate cleaning and un-stabilising!

Dave

G5 2.5 Dual
2.5 gig ram
x800 xt
1TB media storage
23″ Cinema display
19″ IBM LCD – used for Cinema Display
FCP Studio (FCP 5.1.2)
After Effects 7
Shake 4

Currently working on ‘Lookin’ For Lucky’
Feature Film for Albino Injun Productions.
http://www.lookinforlucky.co.uk

[David Dubois]

No worries!

It’d help if i’d explained myself properly 🙂

Anyone else have any ideas? Can I track the original footage then apply that data to th eposition of the new, cleaned plate…which I’ve pre-comped… hang on that might work. Back in a sec to let you know if it does.

I love sparks of inspiration!

Dave

G5 2.5 Dual
2.5 gig ram
x800 xt
1TB media storage
23″ Cinema display
19″ IBM LCD – used for Cinema Display
FCP Studio (FCP 5.1.2)
After Effects 7
Shake 4

Currently working on ‘Lookin’ For Lucky’
Feature Film for Albino Injun Productions.
http://www.lookinforlucky.co.uk

[David Dubois]

Hi Mark

I need to re-introduce the exact camera movement that I removed in the firstplace.
I thought Wiggle just introduced…well… wiggle ie. a random series of movements.

I’ll do a search now but just to clarify.:
I need the same shot as I started with, with the same movement as I started with… just without the dog.

if you goto http://www.dubious.tv and click on ‘uplinks’ this is the clip I need to clean up.

Thanks again

Dave

G5 2.5 Dual
2.5 gig ram
x800 xt
1TB media storage
23″ Cinema display
19″ IBM LCD – used for Cinema Display
FCP Studio (FCP 5.1.2)
After Effects 7
Shake 4

Currently working on ‘Lookin’ For Lucky’
Feature Film for Albino Injun Productions.
http://www.lookinforlucky.co.uk

[David Dubois]

Oh I see. The manual is a little misleading then. it says you can set posterframes with the inpoint or with ctrl-p. The way I read it was that this would create a non-moving poster frame…. which incidentally Apple would be a nice option 🙂

OK so having solved the fact that I can’t have a static poster frame in the browser, can anyone let me know what the maximum I can up my cache size to please.

Many Thanks (as always)

Dave

G5 2.5 Dual
2.5 gig ram
x800 xt
1TB media storage
23″ Cinema display
19″ IBM LCD – used for Cinema Display
FCP Studio (FCP 5.1.2)
After Effects 7
Shake 4

Currently working on ‘Lookin’ For Lucky’
Feature Film for Albino Injun Productions.
http://www.lookinforlucky.co.uk