[Marc Nibor]

Thanks for these great suggestions !!! ; )

[Marc Nibor]

Thanks to everyone. I’ll do that!

[Marc Nibor]

[Tero Ahlfors] “Depends on the footage and your computer. Usually, nope.”

the speed of my machine should not be the issue since it’s very fast. which setting enables the “realtime” preview – if there is any?

[Marc Nibor]

the “Primatte” keyer plugin delivers excellent results. I have seen it do things that made my jaw drop. You should give it a try.

One word of advice. Although in normal cases it’s almost a one button solution because of it’s auto feature I think that in your case you should spend some time with the manual settings.
Here’s a hint. Go into the composite controls of the plugin, enable “spill killer” and here comes the tricky part… try a setting of 40-50 to begin with. The confusing thing about this setting is that you might think either a low or high setting might be good. thruth is, that there is only a very narrow range – usually somewhere around the numbers i just mentioned working, while the high or lowest setting will most likely give you no result at all.

Good luck. and maybe let us know if it worked out for you

EDIT: Ok, I just asked around and here’s a very fast mini tutorial for you that should give you an idea within minutes if it will work in your case and may save you from the hassle of learning the whole plugin just for this test.
download and install the demo >
>apply the plugin to your footage.
>press keying>auto
>set keying>sampling style to rectangle
>click on keying>selection>clean FG
>now drag a rectangle within the face of your actor – make sure you dont include any fo the background color.
>everything should look halvway ok by now except for the spill
>go down to composite controls>spill killer
>check “enable”
>set color mode to green
>set the range value to 50% and decrease it in small steps.
be aware that this setting works only in a quite narrow range. if you miss this range you probably won’t see any result.

[Marc Nibor]

Got a solution!

I tried what you suggested but the problem was still the same!
The solution was indeed in the workspace as I thought.

I found it out like this:
When I saved the file with 24 open sequence tabs, and reopened, everything was fine until I opened another file.

The solution was to save a workspace along with the file.
I’m not sure if this is supposed to be the correct way to do those kind of things… but it works.

As usual… thanks for your help!

[Marc Nibor]

Thank you for these suggestions Walter.

In the meantime I found another one…
>opening a previous save > select and copy what I need from the sequence. open the save with the overwritten audio > make sure the focus is on the sequence and paste (ctrl+v)

It would be a lot easier if it would be possible to run multiple instances of PP (just like with AE when using the -m option when starting it from the command line or by altering the shortcut)
but I haven’t found any info how to do this in PP – any ideas?

about locking the audio tracks… It’s a way to do it, but I think it will fire back in a way that is even worse. while it makes sure I don’t overwrite the audio it also prevents any audio from being moved at all… this means if I do a cut and move the snippet, it will move just as usual, but the audio will stay in place. in 99% of the cases this is not what I would want to ; )

[Marc Nibor]

Great Paul, that’s exactly what I wanted. Thank you.

[Marc Nibor]

>”so the subclipping fixed the issue? just worked in my tests here.”

YES ! It fixed it. Sorry if I didn’t make this clear in the other post.

Thanks again. It’s a tremendous timesaver 🙂

[Marc Nibor]

“Are you sure you are making a SUB CLIP,….”

…actually I’m not!!! FINALLY seems to work.
It was exactly as you thought. It was totally my mistake.
Well, not totally because someone else (who won’t be named here 🙂 just taught it to me the wrong way.

Thanks to everyone who helped!!

[Marc Nibor]

“in cc14.1 you could also use the consolidate transcode function to generate new media sets from the sequence timeline….just specify a destination…that should work.” >>>>>

I hope I’m not a PITA ; ) but could you please explain this a little further. I don’t exactly understand what I need to do.