FCP 4-Green Screen-Ping Richard Brown-MacDV Digest #2271

[Ted Langdell]

Hi, Richard,

Have you had any reason to do green screen from Mini-DV footage?  I'm
curious to know how that's worked.

I have two projects that make use of green screen to fly people around in a
concrete pipe.  IF I'm very careful I can get clean edges that don't
"flutter" due to what appear to be aliased edges around the video being
keyed.  Takes a bit of time to get right.

Am hoping to have a G5 and FCP 4 by the time I need to post the second
project and hope that improves things noticeably.

Ted.



> From: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 07:30:56 -0700
> To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: MacDV Digest #2271
> 
> 
> I've been hammering FCP4 since before it was in general release (well,
> by a day or so) and so far it looks spectacular, overall, but in need
> of updates. Typical of any new software release. The edit I first
> worked upon had enormous amounts of multilayered 3 Color Corrector work
> (2-5 iterations in notches) where the new and improved smoothing tools
> redefine color correction power. And CLEAN at the edges, even soft,
> moving ones. Very nice. These tools made it possible to match outdoor
> scenes shot hours apart (totally different lighting conditions) with
> quite acceptable results. And the tweaks were faster, to be sure.
> 
> Richard Brown
> 
> On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 05:29 AM, Chris Searles wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Samstag, Juni 28, 2003, at 08:31  Uhr, Richard Brown wrote:
>> 
>>> 1) FCP4 likes to gobble RAM, 1336 MB out of my 1500 MB.
>>> 
>> 
>> Interesting comment, but from this recent posting on the Macworld
>> forums you get a completely different impression:
> 
> 
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> 
> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 12:40:53 -0700
> Subject: [MacDV] Why a G5 does not work for me
> From: Richard Brown <richard at go2rba.com>
> Message-Id: <6E26F48C-A9A0-11D7-B968-000393B3BF58 at go2rba.com>
> 
> The mentioning of Premiere and a Sony Media converter absolutely makes
> a G5 and Final Cut a non-issue. Premiere is "nice" for what it does,
> but, while it may be in the same state, it is certainly nowhere near
> the stadium where Final Cut and Avid duke it out for nonlinear
> supremacy at the professional level. Were I holding Avid stock, I'd
> pray their networking, storage, audio, and other non-editorial
> divisions would prosper quickly as the principal issues with the Media
> Composer family become pragmatic cost and legacy value in a nonlinear
> world being redefined by Apple.
> 
> Richard Brown