Dragos
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Can you tell me what kind of results you’ve got with the keyer in X? I’ve always felt that FCP’s keyer was inferior to Adobe’s and I’m hoping there has been an improvement. I’m not a big user of Premier, but I can get a perfect key using their plug in within about 30 seconds, whereas I can never get one of the same quality in FCP.
Dragzz
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Stacking order was the issue. Thanks for the help!
Dragzz
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No, it’s definitely not hacked. I’m running on a mac with a high end card and legal software. I’ll try what you said and see if it gives me a better result. I tried changing the drop shadow to red, and the entire frame gets a drop shadow, not the individual person who has had a green screen key applied to him.
Dragzz
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That’s what I tried so far. Is there another way? I’ve always edited in FCP, but I decided to use Premiere on this since it has a superior keyer.
Dragzz
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Yes, that has been my understanding of it. The problem is that when you go to compress the video and tell it to read 100% of source, it reads it as 720 X 480 and then the image gets distorted. Do you know how to handle compressing this type of footage?
BTW, does shooting in anamorphic create any image quality loss?
Dragzz
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Pretty sure you’ll need a good rotoscoping plug-in if you want to get a high quality effect. You basically mask off each individual frame and paint in the colors you want. It’s a great effect, but it does take time to pull it off properly.
Dragzz
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Ok, I’m sorry to still be seeking clarification. I’ve done what you asked in selecting my sequence and then re-rendering the timeline using prores. My question is, when I then go to export using quicktime to create a self contained movie, do I just leave the “setting” drop down at “Current Settings”, or do I need to go and select “Apple Pro Res 422 NTSC”?
Thanks.
Dragzz
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I always thought the default settings were DV NTSC 48 kHz?
So what setting, from the dropdown, is the best setting to use when editing standard DV footage that has after effects animations (as qt movies) cut in?
Dragzz
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My workflow should be pretty good. I used the info you gave me last week and it helped a lot (-;
My problem is that the text looks great in stills. It looks great on the DVD when I play it on the computer, and it looks fine on a regular tv. It’s just on my bigscreen dlp that I’m having issues. I’m going to try previewing the DVD on my friend’s tv tomorrow and if it looks good there, then I’m going to think it’s something with my tv. It’s a 6-year old DLP and sometimes the signal strength looks a little weak to me to begin with, so I want to check the DVD on a few other sets before I proceed. I’ll keep you posted on my progress.
BTW, when I export my QT movies out of FCP that I plan on compressing for DVD, should I use the standard ntsc dv quicktime defaults, or should I use the Apple ProRes NTSC settings? My timeline is set at ProRes 422 HQ. Thanks again for all of your help.
Dragzz
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I exported out of AE as a 16 bit quicktime movie using animation compression at 100% quality. Once in FCP I had my timeline set with ProRes 422 HQ settings. I rendered everything out and exported as a QT movie. I then brought it into compressor and used the DVD High Quality 90 minutes setting.
The font is sans seriff. Not sure where I would find the interlace setting. Should I have exported my quicktime movie from FCP using proRes as well? I used it to render for my sequence settings but wasn’t sure if I should export it that way too.
If anyone has a bullet point workflow for clean results, I’ll follow it to the letter.
Thanks.
Dragzz