new greenscreen clip!!

Ah Dmitry, harasho. My family's from Yalta and Kursk. =)

As for Avid, do you have version 5.2.1? It's working perfect for me, if you need help, I can tell ya how to get it working.
 
Yeah, that's the version I have. I followed all the instructions I found in various posts here on the board but none of them got it working. I heard that Avid may not behave as expected with CPUs other than from Intel (how descriminative, hehe) so I thought it might be that.
 
I'm running an AMD64 with avid and everything is fine....hmmm. Here's the way that I do it....

1.) Copy the MXF files to drive:\Avid MediaFiles\MXF\1

Use the Copy function rather than Move. You can copy the contents of the video and audio folders from the P2 card to the MXF\1 folder - they can reside in the same directory.

2.) Once copied over, go to Tools, Media Tool. From the window that opens, select the appropriate drive path where you copied the MXF data files. This will create a Media Tool bin containing the MXF files.

3.) Finally, select and drag the MXF files into the project bin from the media tool bin and then drag them down from the project bin onto the timeline.
 
for the love of god, can someone just make a pc version for those of us who don't have avid or anything else....or just get the clip up again. can someone host the clip again please?
 
Blonde - I went through various revisions of the same instructions on this board multiple times. None of them helped.
The one you pasted was in the post Isaac linked to. Besides, the "Copy, not Move" suggestion is for those copying off the P2 card, not from HDD to HDD.
 
Wow, bgundu... that looks awesome. I don't suppose you can "squeeze" the other clips that came from the zip? A bunch of us PC users still haven't seen half this stuff.
 
Squeezing won't do. We need the original footage, not the Sorenson video compressed clips.

The video indeed looked nice, and that's even with all the soft edging and little despill. Nice :).

Bgundu - was the grain on the background added artificially or is it just the grain from the actual greenscreen that just wasn't keyed out well? It looks to me like noise from the greenscreen.

EDIT: After messing for a while with the older screen grab, I came up with this:
http://www.gleb.zerobrains.com/dmitry/images/HVX_key_3.tif

Still not quite happy with hair and the left side of the face, but as the clips prove, when the frames are in motion, the fine details aren't as noticeable.
 
Dmitry Kichenko said:
Squeezing won't do. We need the original footage, not the Sorenson video compressed clips.
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I'm not interested in keying anything, I just want to see the stuff. The compression bgundu used on his key looked fantastic, and PC users can't see the "original footage" without some kind of conversion.

PLEASE convert the original clips with Sorenson, and if you need hosting space/bandwidth, I will be happy to provide.

Thank you in advance.

P.S. - Is anyone able to read the metadata and determine what detail level was set for these clips?
 
Haakon said:
I'm not interested in keying anything, I just want to see the stuff. The compression bgundu used on his key looked fantastic, and PC users can't see the "original footage" without some kind of conversion.

PLEASE convert the original clips with Sorenson, and if you need hosting space/bandwidth, I will be happy to provide.

Thank you in advance.

P.S. - Is anyone able to read the metadata and determine what detail level was set for these clips?
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hey haakon... i have the original footage - DVCPRO files that were unwrapped from the mxf files (can't give you metadata info) - and i have Squeeze 4. i'll convert it for ya... if... you can tell me what happened to shannon's thread - the one where he came asking permission to speak. i came home last night and found the thread deleted and you are the only one who commented (on the 4 cam test thread) that he got banned... for what? pm me if you have to - it seems no one is talking or asking about it...
 
bgundu said:
Ok kids. Here's my composite in Shake 4.0 using Keylight.
Bob
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Hey, Bob, thanks for posting the clip in Sorenson! While H264 has its uses, I think that good old Sorenson does a fine job, and doesn't jack up the gamma. I used it as well for my 3D tracking test.

Great key work, I see you addressed that thin dark line on his shoulders/ears, which is simply lack of fill light to counter the green spill, quite nicely. Most of the key examples I've seen with this clp kind of let that slip by or over choke that puppy. :) I can't access the raw footage, but when I took that tiff of a frame into AE I just breathed a sigh of relief. It will work as advertised.

Anyway, based on this and other examples I've seen, the HVX will be best in class for keying, period. Sure, hook up your Canon to your, ah, "portable" HD-SDI NLE if you want, but for out-of-the-box, in-the-field keying goodness the HVX can't be beat. And this is with HD material and higher compression... that DVCPRO 50 will simply rule the SD world for inexpensive key sourcing.

My biggest fears until recently were with the HVX having A.) too soft a picture with detail set very low (as my Z1 was... anything less than 10 was way too soft) or B.) some trace of edge enhancement still visible at those low detail levels. Edge enhancement is a matte killer... simply unusable without massive choking or extensive hand work.

Many factors will influence a decision on which camera to buy. I place keying high on my personal list, and keying from the cameras built in recording media even higher. Add over and under-cranking, shooting 1080 for FX plates, and the first ever in a prosumer camcorder ability to do true single frame and interval recording, I am 100% sold.

Jim Arthurs
 
Jim Arthurs said:
Hey, Bob, thanks for posting the clip in Sorenson! While H264 has its uses, I think that good old Sorenson does a fine job, and doesn't jack up the gamma. I used it as well for my 3D tracking test.

Great key work, I see you addressed that thin dark line on his shoulders/ears, which is simply lack of fill light to counter the green spill, quite nicely. Most of the key examples I've seen with this clp kind of let that slip by or over choke that puppy. :) I can't access the raw footage, but when I took that tiff of a frame into AE I just breathed a sigh of relief. It will work as advertised.

Anyway, based on this and other examples I've seen, the HVX will be best in class for keying, period. Sure, hook up your Canon to your, ah, "portable" HD-SDI NLE if you want, but for out-of-the-box, in-the-field keying goodness the HVX can't be beat. And this is with HD material and higher compression... that DVCPRO 50 will simply rule the SD world for inexpensive key sourcing.

My biggest fears until recently were with the HVX having A.) too soft a picture with detail set very low (as my Z1 was... anything less than 10 was way too soft) or B.) some trace of edge enhancement still visible at those low detail levels. Edge enhancement is a matte killer... simply unusable without massive choking or extensive hand work.

Many factors will influence a decision on which camera to buy. I place keying high on my personal list, and keying from the cameras built in recording media even higher. Add over and under-cranking, shooting 1080 for FX plates, and the first ever in a prosumer camcorder ability to do true single frame and interval recording, I am 100% sold.

Jim Arthurs
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I agree.
...and the image is gorgeous.
 
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