[Spencer Tweed]

Thanks for the link Walter, I feel much better after ranting for a paragraph or two to Adobe.

– Spencer

[Spencer Tweed]

Maybe this helps something:

If I look at the file in notepad ++ there are basically two sections. The top half looks like a bunch of Egyptian writing and the bottom half is just some .xmp metadata on the file. If I copy over the top half (the Taiwanese stuff) from the CS4 file and replace the top half of the CS5 file I can then open in in CS4 – the only problem is that this half seems to contain all of the data that I need (layer data, effect data, etc).

The good news is that I have at least eliminated half of the document from scrutiny, as this doesn’t seem to effect whether or not the file opens in AE CS4. The bad news is that this stuff looks like Russian to me.

– Spencer

[Spencer Tweed]

Thanks Walter,

I’m thinking that I will do a combo of both – export the premier file and then copy over the keys and whatnot.

I was just mucking around with Notepad ++ to see if I could somehow edit the file to get it across. I KNOW that it is possible this way – it has to be. No dice yet, it looks as though Adobe hid it away because even if I search “10.0.1” and replace it out, it still somehow knows that it is a CS5 project file.

If I am saying anything incredibly stupid let me know, I am certainly no software developer.

– Spencer

[Spencer Tweed]

Hopefully not, all of the parameters are the same (which is all I care about).

[Spencer Tweed]

Thanks Philippe, I had forgotten about this plug-in suite. Sadly spending any money is out of the question, it simply takes too long to get through finance lines right now and I’m not willing to consider that option.

For the future though I would love to get this suite, I have seen a few videos on what it can do. It is great stuff!

– Spencer

[Spencer Tweed]

Thanks! When the video is done I’ll post up a link. It is a music video for a ’60s era band in the UK.

– Spencer

[Spencer Tweed]

Never mind, I just saw your other post.

– Spencer

[Spencer Tweed]

Hah! Yeah, I thought that was a little funny… She’s in Australia at the moment, I’ll have to ask what she was talking about when she gets back.

But still, is there any way of fixing this in post? I know I can obviously do some edge detection and color correction (which I have already done, and it works out well) but I was wondering if there were some better way of handling it.

– Spencer

[Spencer Tweed]

Allright, so we have established that it is a defect of the chroma sampling in the XDCam format – but what is the best way to correct this? What I am thinking is pre-comping my key and using it to create an edge mask from the alpha that I can then manually just bump up with some color correction. I know this will work, but perhaps there is a cleaner way?

– Spencer

[Spencer Tweed]

Thanks! Like I said though, I had to roto the hands to do some manual spill suppression. Other than that it sure works like a charm!

– Spencer