John Rofrano
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[Tom Edwards] “From what I see I guess the issue is the 4:2:0. I am shooting with a Canon 70d, and I don’t know if it’s 4:2:0 or what. “
If the file you linked to was directly from your camera, it is definitely 4:2:0. I checked it with MediaInfo.
[Tom Edwards] “As for lighting, I use 5500k CFL lighting on everything. I have four lights on the screen and have waveformed the lighting such that is as evenly spread as possible. And I have a key light at full power with 4ea 5500k CFL bulbs. I have a fill with 2ea 5500k CFL bulbs and I have a kicker (hair) light that is 1ea 5500k bulb.”
The screen is lit perfectly. I just feel there is too much light on the subject. It is extremely flat and featureless. There are no shadows but more importantly, the colors are washed out because of the amount of light.
This is why I use a key light and bounce card instead of a fill light. Sometimes the fill is just too much. You want shadows on your subject. Shadows give definition. Light without shadows is uninteresting. The most important thing about good lighting is shadows (unless you are shooting a product in a light box and want it to be shadowless).
I saw the hair light, and one trick is to add a magenta gell to the hair light to offset the green spill. The other way to avoid spill is to move further away from the green screen.
[Tom Edwards] “Do you think my MAJOR problem is the lighting or the 4:2:0? Or are both major problems?”
While the 4:2:0 will limit what you an do, getting the lighting correct will help a LOT. As I said, you’ve done an outstanding job with lighting the green screen. Just get some more contrast in the form of shadows on your subject and it should be easier to pull a good key.
~jr
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Yea, if there isn’t anything you need in Pro, the Movie Studio 13 would be the most compatible with current video formats. It’s an extremely capable video editor.
~jr
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I’m not sure why the system wouldn’t boot with just the external drive in the internal bay. I’ve done this several times when cloning a Mac to new hardware.
Do you really want to have two drives? One solution is to boot with the El Capitan drive in. Then open the Migration Assistant, plug in the USB drive with your Yosemite files, and migrate your account and all of it’s applications and data to the El Capitan drive. That will give you El Capitan with all your current apps and data.
I usually do this when setting up the new Mac. In fact, you should have set up your new Mac from the Time Machine backup in the first place. You would have ended up with El Capitan and all of your apps and data. Restoring a new Mac with a Time Machine backup does not load the old OS X. It uses the new OS X with your old apps and data, which is what most people want to happen.
If you want to give this a second chance, back up any data you may have on the new Mac. Boot it with CMD+R to bring up recover mode. Then re-install El Capitan and use either restore from Time Machine or restore from other Hard Drive (since you now have both) and you will end up with El Capitan with your existing apps and data. At this point, it may be easier to just use the Migration Assistant on your existing El Capitan drive.
~jr
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This is a common problem on Windows. It sounds like you held your iPhone upside down when recording. The Mac is smart enough to read the orientation information in the file and display it correctly. On Windows this is hit or miss as you have seen. The same is true for still images. The Mac will always display the images upright regardless of how you hold your iPhone but Windows will happily (and stupidly) display all of your images upside down. (another reason I don’t use Windows anymore)
There is no quick fix that I know of. If the software is not checking the orientation information and compensating for it, then you will need to re-render it to a file with the opposite orientation. So fixing it in Vegas is your only option at this point.
~jr
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I see two immediate problems:
(1) You are lighting your subject with the same flat lights as the background. Don’t do that. The green screen should be lit evenly as you did with soft boxes but the talent should be lit with a separate set of lights. At a minimum a key light and a bounce card to create shadows and definition. There are just no shadows to pull your subject away from the background and so the image is very flat and not sharp at all. This is why you’re having a hard time keying. The image just looks too soft to me. There is also a fair amount of spill which makes your fingers look green and causes problems when keying.
(2) You are shooting with a highly compressed AVC/H.264 format that using 4:2:0 chroma subsampling which is not good for chroma keying. You want to shoot chroma key with a camera that uses 4:2:2 or 4:4:4 chroma sampling. So you are not starting with a lot of color information to begin with.
I got a lot better results with the BCC Chroma Keyer than with the built in Vegas Chroma Key.
You might want to watch my Boris TV Episode: Chroma Key & Mattes in Sony Vegas Pro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQnSIogLeg0
Webinar Replay: BCC 9 New Features Round-Up for Sony Vegas Pro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXugmuTPgTE
The Boris Keyer is exceptional. I doubt you would need to switch to Premiere Pro just to get a good key.
~jr
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You’re welcome. Glad it autosaved an unsaved project. That’s impressive.
~jr
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You ave nothing to loose by waiting. I’m almost certain you will loose everything if you kill it… but it doesn’t sounds good. 🙁
~jr
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[Shawn Miller] “If I create a graphic that looks like a bird in flight, superimpose it on a background plate, and animate it to move across the screen, is it a motion graphic or a visual effect? :-)”
I guess it would depend on if the bird was a laden or unladen swallow and if it was of African or European descent? 😉
My take is: If the bird looks real it’s a visual effect… if it looks fake it’s a motion graphic. lol
…but I get your point.
~jr
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[Mark Romans] “Will Vegas auto save my project so I can recover it if I end the program while it’s in this little “thinking” phase? Should I let it go over night and see if it ever cancels?”
There should be an autosaved project with your project name and the extension .veg.bak but since you never saved it you might not have this file. If you did, it would be called Untitled.veg.bak. If you don’t see that file, you have nothing backed up.
~jr
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