Chroma Key Problem Need Help

Big Dog wrote on 4/30/2005, 12:56 PM
I'm trying to pull off a strange type of chroma key where instead of having the subject over the background, I'm layering the backgrounds over the subject with a green screen behind them. It's an interesting effect and gives me what I'm looking for. Here's the problem. I'm getting jagges lines around my subject. I've tweaked and made every adjustment using the chroma key plug in with no luck, I have the chroma blur on max and used a quick blur with no luck. Everytime i render I get the jagged little lines.

thanks for your help

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Spot|DSE wrote on 4/30/2005, 1:30 PM
Can you post a still? It sounds like you might not really have Chromablur applied. It's pretty hard to have jags when it's part of the chain. Do you have it BEFORE the keyer? Or after the keyer?
Big Dog wrote on 5/1/2005, 9:52 PM
I have chroma blur applied after the key. When I render as an AVI file I get jagged lines but, when I render as an MPG2 I don't get the lines?

Thanks
Dave
Spot|DSE wrote on 5/1/2005, 9:59 PM
http://www.vasst.com/resource.aspx?id=4fd2419c-8ed5-4cb0-8abe-9bb656287c31 might help you a bit.
It may be that the MPEG compression and how it slightly blurs things is making it look better. Try applying the Chromablur before the key and see how it works for you.
Stonefield wrote on 5/1/2005, 10:56 PM
I find the Chroma Blur BEFORE the Chroma Keyer works best for me.
rmack350 wrote on 5/1/2005, 11:05 PM
I'd be willing to bet that this is more an effect of rendering to DV25. You could do a few frames of test to uncompresed AVI to test this.

Rob Mack