[David Pond]

Hi Lotte

What was the original codec of your sequence? What do you mean by it doesn’t play out properly, does it stutter, is the aspect ratio off?

Exporting the sequence at its native settings is always the best bet. However like you said you have to make sure that the computer your playing it out on can handle the file. As for other options, an H264 set to best quality, no data rate restrictions, and the full size should yield a pretty good quality movie.

-David
LTM

[David Pond]

I tested all the main keying software (Primatte, Ultimatte, Zmatte, etc) for my company and decided to go with Ultimatte.

Ultimatte has some definite advantages over the FCP Chroma keyer, namely in hair and edging. In the hair you are easily and quickly able to achieve definition in someone’s hair without the noise and wierdness you sometimes get using the FCP Chroma key (especially dealing with the uncontrollable metal-hair I was looking at). Also in situations where the lighting wasnt that good the results you get with Ultimatte are pretty impressive.

Another plus over the other keying programs (at least at the time when i tested them, June 09) Ultimatte takes advantage of all your processors so render time is kept to a minimum (of course there are other factors that play into render time- codec, other filters, etc).

So long story short, I think you will be very impressed by the results you get with Ulitmatte, but I would download and play with the demo version to make sure you like it.

-Dave
LTM

[David Pond]

Hi Eugnene

I run into a similar problem all the time on my system. For me its an issue with my video playout card and its a simple fix. When the audio goes out of sync, i open up System Preferences>Sound. I change the output setting from the Blackmagic Audio to my internal speakers(or any of the other options). I then change it back to playout through the Blackmagic. All media is then back in sync while in FCP.

Hope that helped.

David
LTM