Lisa Inserra
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Yes, I see it. Good work. Thanks for your help.
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Thanks Kevin and Brian. Of course, precompose worked like a charm. I put two and two together last night and realized this (sometimes you just have to get away from it!)
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Thanks for your help and the link RoRK. Haven’t seen the sample exam yet, but will look it up.
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Thanks for the info. Yes, I bought the Classroom in a Book and read through it, but from what I understand the questions go far beyond that content and are based on the many, many pages of the online help. What I’d really like to do is print out the entire online help, but I’m not sure how to do that. Any ideas?
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OK, I figured it out. The DSR-45 doesn’t know what anamorphic is. If I change my capture settings to DV-NTSC (not anamorphic) I can capture.
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No, you’re not too late…I regularly check this post to see what people are trying. However, for the most part I’ve moved on to HD so I rarely have this problem anymore. My keys are flawless. Your info will be helpful, though, if I need to shoot with the older cameras for some reason.
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OK I surrender. I hate it, but I surrender. You know, come to think of it, the last time I had a black outline my talent was also wearing red. Hm. So maybe if my talent this time doesn’t have the black outline on her flesh tones and her blonde hair, I’ll tell my talent to wear peach or yellow on green screen. Well, I guess I’m just dealing with a compression issue. Ugh.
Thanks for your help.
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Dave,
This is very thorough, and I’m very glad to know this information.
The situation here is that I have a background that is a .mov file behind an After Effects animation of Illustrator, Photoshop and .jpg graphics with my subject chromakeyed in front of all that. But I’ve gotten this black outline in front of just still .jpg images before as well.Doggonit.
This is why I have to suspect that it’s something to do with the lighting or maybe just the 4:1:1 compression of the SD footage taken on a DSR-250. When I look at just the footage of the subject on the green background, there IS a black outline around her but it’s only visible on her red sweater against the green, not her flesh tones or her blonde hair against the green. So I think it must have something to do with the way either A) the camera is interpreting the chrominance or B) the saturation of color or C) the luminance difference (or lack of it). That’s why I keep figuring that maybe a change in lighting or F-stop or something might help. Or maybe changing the knee or something.
Lisa
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Hi Kevin,
thanks for the suggestion. I checked (and unchecked) premultiply in Keylight, but all it does is add a sort of grimy-looking black blur around everything. I see that it HAS some effect, just not the one I need.
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Hi Dave,
don’t have an iPod and when I click on the link you provided, I get a blank screen. But to answer your question, yes, I believe I’m following the established protocol for shooting chromakey. I’m lighting subject and background separately, evenly lit background (even tested it with a light meter), no spill from foreground lights (key and fill on the subject with magenta hair light). So, the only thing I feel like I’m missing in the equation is that perhaps the ratio of light from foreground to background might be too much, or too little?
Lisa