Shane Ross, over at Little Frog in High Def, writes about his experience keying DVC Pro HD green screen footage for a project of his. After comparing various solutions including Final Cut Pro's own chroma keyer, Adobe After Effects, Keylight for After Effects, and DV Matte Pro, Shane finally ended up going with Shake. His reasoning, "if it is good enough for King Kong and Lord of the Rings and Star Wars...it should work for me."
The post has lots of large images to better illustrate his decision making process. As we all know there are a lot of things that can go wrong with a green screen composite, so it is best to choose the right tool for the job. And after reading this post, you will understand why Shake came out on top.
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1. I dont think this is exactly "tips" on pulling a good key. This person is obviously not an experienced keyer. Properly keying footage is not a "drop" the filter on the footage, click the green, and get a good key. Keying properly is a major multi step process to do it correctly, from creating the ketmatte, using garbage mattes, adjusting greenspill, and color correcting. One of the best places I can think of, is head over to DV garage.com, Alex Lindsey's site, and there are several free tutorials on properly pulling a key. SHAKE is extremely complicated, and will be the hardest one of all those programs for you to use unless you do some serious training. (You need to specify EVERY step to shake, it does nothing automatically.)
Posted at 7:59AM on Dec 22nd 2006 by Art Guglielmo