[Marc Lucas]

I will give the Keylight a go over the weekend. Would it make any difference in converting to ProRes first will it make the footage more keying friendly (losing the jagged edges a little?)

[Marc Lucas]

Yeah I have Keylight 1.2 as part of AE but was doing this project in FCP6 so might have to do the whole thing in AE now then. The software hasn’t got a choker but have just tried a Nattress choke plugin and hasn’t done that much to be fair. I think I will have a go in AE to see what I come up with.
Many thanks for your comments!

[Marc Lucas]

It’s XDCAM footage.

I’m using dvGarage matte suit so when you say ‘choke’ do you mean blur the edges to try and blend the hard edges more? Because I have horizontal and vertical blur controls.

Is the footage problematic because it’s also inter-laced? We usually shoot progressive but for this job we had to use 1080i because of the camera the shooter shot on. For the future whats the best footage for keying?

Many thanks

[Marc Lucas]

Hi

You can see the problems here https://www.marclucasmedia.com/mattes/

Many thanks for any advice!

[Marc Lucas]

Many thanks for the in depth reply I’ll take this onboard. I was just getting hissing all over when trying to set things up when I turned either the mic or camera up to far now I know why.
Greatly appreciated!

[Marc Lucas]

Consumer Line level? What do you mean by that?
And do you suggest I use the Line input rather than Mic input.

Many thanks

[Marc Lucas]

But by converting the original footage to ProRes do they still ‘connect’ themselves to the ProRes versions of the master rushes??

[Marc Lucas]

Not getting an error message just one frame of the 5 secs of the render

[Marc Lucas]

Thanks for the clear and concise reply. The axis issue was really confusing me so thanks for explaining that. I will now be able to move forward with less head scratching.
Really appreciate this!

[Marc Lucas]

OK this is where I’m at. I had a go using the plain Compositing tag and I successfully did that because I’ve done that before I could use the object buffer as a luma matte to project a video clip onto my screen. The problem is however I haven’t got any position data from C4D so that the imported clip could rotate and move with the rotation object.