Jeremy Richardson
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Alternatively you can modify that workflow slightly and implement inverse kinematics. This will allow you to animate one layer and the others will follow along.
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I don’t have any specific experience with Final Cut & AE but I have been running full Avid Projects of a 7200rpm 250GB USB2 drive for a while now with no problems. Make sure it’s at least 7200rpm and you should be good. It will at least do 1 stream of DV (I’ve got it up to 3 but processor power breaks down before drive speed becomes a problem)
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Why upper field? If you’re final output is DV (which it may not be) then the field order should be bottom field first. If you are using another video format then you need to check the specs for it.
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The main thing to look for when keying is important is color resolution. There are a number of factors that determine color resolution. However the main one is the recording format.
DV has a luminance to color ratio of 4:1:1. This means for every 4 pieces of luminance information you have only 1 color. For keying this means your key is using only a quarter of the total screen resolution. Many plugins enhance this information by interpolation but you can’t create the best key based on information that isn’t there.
DV50 (DVCPro 50, D9) has a ratio of 4:2:2 which gives twice as much information as normal DV. There are not many cameras that capture this format that are under $15,000.
However if keying is your focus, I have heard of someone buying an old DigiBeta head used for cheap. He came out of the SDI port and into a capture card that could capture uncompressed. This way he was capturing full 4:4:4 video directly to hard disk.
HD is a whole other ball game but you are mostly dealing with the same issues. HDV is a 4:1:1 format. DVCProHD is 4:2:2 and at this point seems like the best option with the HVX100 from Panasonic. It also may help if you are outputing to SD, this added resolution should give killer keys. However who would want to finish in SD when you’re shooting HD?
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I’ve been having this same error. I’ve found that if I put a Color Balance (HLS) effect before the offending effect it seems to work. I just leave the Color Balance so they are not affecting the image. Play around with the ordering of this effect in comparison to offending effects. May also work with certain other effects.
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