Eugene Perepletchikov
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I think that you can get away with getting a clean key using AE Pro standard toolset. Use the difference key in conjunction with the matt choke and the spill supressor. Also check out the tutorial on this site (dont remember who by) where they use a copy of the keyed footage as a track matte for the background, so it slightly bleeds over your actor for better integration into your background image.
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Your audio levels could be clipping. While playing your track, watch the master levels to make sure that its not going into the reds. If it is, normalize it or just bring the levels down.
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Do you mean the dvcpro50 codec? I think it might be the same thing. If it is, I ran into the same problem recently. There are codecs you can purchase for pc to capture with but I found that if it has already been captured on a mac, then your only option is to rerender them on the mac as animation or 8 bit uncompressed.
See if you can get the files rendered out again…
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Would like to know the solution for this too. I am not on a mac or anything but I remember something similair happening to me. I had to go into photoshop, save the images out again and then bring them in. From memory, I don’t even think that the problem was with tiffs, especially 16 bit ones. Must be something buggy going on! Hasn’t happened in a long time though…
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I don’t know man, but I don’t see any reason why that isn’t 3D. In fact, the more I look at it the more it looks like 3D…
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I just did a greenscreen shoot a few weeks ago where my character was standing on a turntable platform that was painted green. Got a full body shot without too much hassles. You can always try to eliminate shadows with some extra lights.
I think that you could even hire motorized platforms for perfectly uniform rotation. Contact any local prop place that works with tv/film industry and you’ll be able to hire a simple turntable at a very cheap rate.
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You might start by making a slight animated displacement map for the background footage, as it would get distorted by refracted light in a liquid in combination with some colour tinting. That maybe enough depending on the level of realism you are going for.
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I don’t know if I understand exactly the problem you are describing but I have a feeling that it could be a really simple solution. If you have just captured your footage and you are looking at this quicktime and it looks crap, then try converting it to square pixels. This should make your footage a lot sharper and clearer.
Sorry if I have misunderstood you…
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Hey Cletus
I think that if you are already shooting with HDV, than you might as well use that footage. I have not had much experience pulling keys from HDV so Dancow could be right that for SD output it might actually come up better. The main thing is that you really nail your lighting and get your exposures right. If you want real quality footage for a key than I suggest you try to hire a studio (maybe your university has one) where they have cameras with SDI output. Then you could hire a dvcpro50 or digiBeta deck, which would make a BIG difference (not to mention the better lenses on those cameras)
Good luck
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I don’t have AE open right now so I can’t check but I don’t think you need to do that. I’m pretty sure that if you check your export settings that for audio, it should be stereo at 44 khz or something like that. I think that AE should do that for you when you render….