[Dumeyni Arnaud]

Hello,
I always had OpenGL turned off but I used it recently for rendering a heavy RAM-eating composition.
So when playing with the Multiprocessing, with the RAM settings and caches isn’t enough it might be interesting, but I won’t buy a expensive card just for this.

[Dumeyni Arnaud]

Thanks for the positive feedback 🙂

This interview was important and as Alan said, it looked like they didn’t cared about it. But since I wasn’t involved in the shooting I couldn’t tell them they were doing it wrong, is it always like that ?

Nice link Dave, I heard about the 4-2-0 color but now I understand why it looks horrible even in HDV.

Downloaded demo of chromakey from boris, will try.

I’ve been playing with Primatte and garbage mattes with the head, the inward defocus helps, but I got a weird dark green color on his hair, pic related :

Looking at the source footage his hair is already a little green, so maybe it just a color correction problem and not spill.

Source material in higher res : https://lpcfoubis.free.fr/preview/sample_itw.zip

[Dumeyni Arnaud]

Hi Marcello

I used keylight and Primatte, never tried Ultimatte.

[Dumeyni Arnaud]

Hello,
Do you have any CS3 products installed ?
If you have Premiere CS3 and CS4 on the same system, Media Encoder becomes instable and can’t export compressed footages from Premiere properly.
I had to export in AVI uncompressed and then compress it with another software.

The metadatas are detailed information ( take, bitrate, comments, etc ) about your medias.
When you export those within a file you can see and edit those info with any CS4 product. The fact that Media Encoder can’t read this data doesn’t make your file damaged.

[Dumeyni Arnaud]

Hi thanks for your answer.

Thats the first thing i did but the AE DOF doesn’t render the effect i’m looking for.

I’m trying to recreate this blur

Notice how the highlight stand out and how it takes the iris’ camera shape.

I found some plugin to recreate this but i have to provide them a Z Depth.

If you guys are interested in those plugins or this effect you might want to check this thread https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/936666#936793

[Dumeyni Arnaud]

Thanks Lloyd, I’ve tried but its not working.
I tried it again in a freshly created comp ( the solid and the audio ) its still didn’t worked.

Its ok I just keyframed the audio level manually but i’m still curious why a simple expression like this didn’t worked out.

[Dumeyni Arnaud]

The easiest way is a simple and regular copy/paste : select the scene you want to edit in AE and copy it ( file > copy or ctrl+c ) open AE and paste.
It works in both ways ( AE -> PP2 and PP2 -> AE )

This operation also imports time’s sequence info.
For instance, if you copy/paste a cut from 10m 00s to 10m 20s to a 20s AE comp, AE will adapt the comp length to you pasted footage.

However there is a problem with this method : you will loose the copy pasted footage when rebooting, like any copy/paste information. You could just copy/paste it again, but you cannot interpret > replace footage. You’ll have to redo you animation or effects.

[Dumeyni Arnaud]

Thanks for your answers and my apologies for this late post.

I’ve told the director many times about this. But they just go, shoot and screen for the hell of it because there’s no time to loose ( reshooting is out of the question ) . I can’t go with him everytime he shoots bluescreen since i’m sometimes busy with other editing.

Sometimes shit happens and you gotta deal with it 🙁
If i can next time I will refuse to key this kind of shooting, just like Dave advised in another thread.

So i tried what you guys proposed, color correcting the shirt to make a matte out of it was a nice idea. but I didn’t tried the solid with blue’s shirt yet. I’ve searched about difference keying and luma it led me to dvGarage wich gives some nice results too.

Nuno>Hi, are you using the regular color key or the luma masking one ? I’m not really familiar with Premiere’s keying tools.

Ron> Title message edited for better search results. At least i can do that. ^^

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Thanks for answering Joe.

My “decent” matte of its shirt is what you advised me, multiples mattes one on the top of another.
I found another solution with Keylight, its the screen despot black option that will fill matte’s holes. Works fine.

I still end up with a non blue shirt. I duplicate it, color correct to put some blue back into it, and trackmatte it to alpha.
Its better but theres still some spill and noise around the shirt, not very sexy.
Whatever i’m trying it looks the same.

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thanks for the info i will check i 🙂