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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Some keying tips for DVCPRO HD 

LITTLE FROG IN HIGH DEF: DVCPRO HD GREEN SCREENING

Keylight does a nice job for Shane on motion blurred footage, but he's noticing noisier blacks and elevated luma. One reason - crazy luma handling behavior between FCP and After Effects, boiling down to QuickTime issues.

I say key it in Keylight, color correct in FCP.

-mike
Comments:
the elevated luma is probably just a gamma shift (since fcp corrects video gamma in qt files and most comp apps dont) and the noisier blacks is most likely the rather heavy despill that is built into keylight, resulting in more noticable artifacts.
doing the despill outside sometimes helps a bit, and primatte usually works better for me anyway, but in the end you'll just have to avoid spill while shooting or work hard in post.

++ chris
 
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