[Nate Stephens]

Per,

This is sad to hear because I am going to pick up my new HVX200 this week.

What you discribe sounds just like the problem I had with my on line Prodigy switcher. No matter how much I tweak the chromakey clip and gain there was always “crust” green edge on the left side of the the talent. Then one day I got the engineer to visit, I showed him the problem, he scratched his head, studied his engineering drawings of his install and got out his trusty tweaker. And everything was Perfect… The problem was that the “hole” cut in the background was “out of blanking” (sync) with the keyed foreground. Once he fixed the “blanking” problem due to a cable being 3+ inches too long, everything was very pretty.

But if you are using Ultimate software and the computer, I have no idea how one would address a blanking error between the keyed foreground and the hole cut by the chromakeyer. And it smells like a blanking error, because the 3 pixel green crust does not encircle your subject on all sides. Why does it happen on one side and not the other.

Have you tried different colored background for your key color. Is the camera more sensitive to chroma green, than chroma blue, or even 100% white or black.

I am eager to hear the cause and the solution to your problem, too. Because by Friday we will have a HVX200 and hopefully soon we will have the 500 too.

Gosh, I miss the old days when there was always bad cable, or the missing engineer that the client didn’t want to pay for to blame.

[Nate Stephens]

Jan, can you post that freeze frame of your blonde girl chromakeyed over fire.

I should be able to use it to sleep better and encourage my co-workers that this P2 path is the right path that we are starting on this week.

[Nate Stephens]

Per,

Not to dodge your research. But years ago when using my old Sony M7, I had terrible fringing or halo. My only escape from it was to get the talent away from the Green screen as far as possible and to light the back edges of the talent with a peach or cosmetic color gell. I was getting to much green screen spill onto the edges of the talent, so I had to neutralize the green edges on the talent reflected off the green screen with a reddish / peachy color / or other color. And I do not have a big space. My edit and insert stage / green screen are located in a converted 2 car garage.. and it works…

I am getting the 200 this week. I hope I can get the same results at 1080. I will soon find out.

[Nate Stephens]

David, That is exactly what I did. I had one red light on my Medea Array so I did the Medea Config Dirve routine. Then opened Disk Warrior, did the graph, which looked terrible, ran the repair/replace, rebooted did the graph again and it looks great.

Last night I opened the FCP movie in FCP, put it into a timeline and left it to export out a new movie to the Fire wire drive. This morning, I checked on it and it hanged up at 85% done.

I appreciate your reply and thoughts. I thought it might have been due to the version of OS or FCP that I am using or the 169GB size of the file.

Maybe I should just consider it a cosmic message that this client will be back with more work and does not want to lose her “space” on my array.

[Nate Stephens]

Barry,

HD Monitor Pro and Scopebox, way cool… I checked out their web sites, They are the most encouraging part of getting the HVX200..

Do you have a favorite? Have you used them? Do they really work on location? Under stress?

Thanks Very sweet…

PS where do you get your HVX2oo book