Chromakey

[Richtiger]

Thats interesting Roy.
What I have ended up doing for this job is apply all three to each clip, that is, place a chromakey then chrominance then Monotone filter on the clip in that order, then play with the settings in all 3 to get the desired result. The chrominance filter gives me the option of removing the background and replacing it with a block colour .... in this case white. I found this worked better after I had already placed the chromakey filter on the clip to get rid of the original blue.

I still had the line around the outline of the person but after playing with the fine settings in chrominance I almost completely removed this.
What I then had was a black & white person on a white background.
My next step was to place each clip into After Effects over another white background of the exact same colour and mask out as much of the white area of the original clip as possible.

I know thats a lot of steps but I ended up with the appearance of multi layers with the person infront of moving text and a plain white back ground behind everything. Then I was able to fly the After Effects camera through the scenes to make it all join together seamlessly.

So what I discovered from all of this is that when you look closely into the capabilities of each program you can invariably find things that you didn't know existed. I had only ever used the chrominance filter to highlight a single colour in a black & white video clip before but it does much more than that.
Edius is much easier than After Effects to do lots of tasks and visa versa. It's a matter of horses for courses.

It would have been a lot easier and less time consuming for me to be able to import my clip into After Effects and then key out the background and animate the camera etc but I just wasn't happy with the results. With the Edius contribution I am now happy with the outcome.

Thanks everyone for your comments and assistance.
Richard

[GrassValley_MD]

So what I discovered from all of this is that when you look closely into the capabilities of each program you can invariably find things that you didn't know existed. I had only ever used the chrominance filter to highlight a single colour in a black & white video clip before but it does much more than that.
Edius is much easier than After Effects to do lots of tasks and visa versa. It's a matter of horses for courses.

You can say that again. I know that one button solutions are very nice but sometimes I forget the Editing is just that, figuring out what you want and learning (with the tools that are available) how to do it! :)

I am happy that you have a desired effect now!! :)


Mike

[james]

hi,try using serious magic ultra2 it is the best chroma key in the market

thanks,,,,munir sheba