[Rich Kyanka]

I was trying to not use any program as an intermediary, but it appears as if that’s not possible with Flash. Changing the framerate of a project in Flash is essentially the same as changing its playback speed, so the extra ~6 frames per second really screw things up. I think I’ll just have to bite the bullet and change it in AE, since that option appears to be the slightly lesser of two evils.

Thanks for the suggestions though!

[Rich Kyanka]

Have you tried Sorenson Squeeze? It uses either the On2 VP6 pro codec or the Sorenson Spark pro codec, which seems to render decent enough footage for me.

I’m not a huge fan of Super; while it seems it can convert one format to nearly any other format in the universe, 90% of all attempts either result in errors, missing video / audio, or other miscellaneous botched jobs.

[Rich Kyanka]

Although it took me a little while to figure out and grow accustomed to Boris RED and the different way it handles layers and the timeline (compared to Vegas), I really started loving it once I got the hang of it. As John said, the chroma keying is excellent, and you can practically generate a completely clean key just by loading the default values. The learning curve can be slightly alienating (especially to folks who lack a lot of free time), but it’s ultimately extremely useful, flexible, and powerful.

[Rich Kyanka]

Thanks for the tip; I will try it. While I originally tried to simply do the entire thing in Boris Red, I abandoned that attempt due to the extra steps and timeline required to edit in Boris.

So what I ended up doing was copying the original video clip, using the crop tool (with stretch to fill frame disabled) to create a rectangle around the black monitor area, and adding a Sony Chroma Key set to 20,20,20. Then I added a timeline below that, with the monitor image resized and aligned with the monitor. Below that, obviously, was the original video clip. This seems to work decently, although Sony’s not-so-quality chroma key isn’t exactly as nice as the one native to Red.

[Rich Kyanka]

Nah, I lost all possible relevancy back around 2002 or so. Now I’m just a washed-up shell of a human being.

Are you handy with Vegas, David? If so, would you mind dropping me an email (webmaster@somethingawful.com) with your IM handle (if you have one)? I’ve got some miscellaneous questions regarding Vegas, mostly about color space and mastering, which I’d rather not litter throughout these fine forums.

I’m working on a TOP SECRET PROJECT!!!

[Rich Kyanka]

Thanks for the reply. Apparently Vegas was stuck in one of its random, perpetual “let’s not update the video preview” mode, which didn’t display the current track effect changes until I restarted. Hooray!