Getting green screen composite to fade properly

smhontz wrote on 3/11/2012, 10:42 PM
I have a green screen interview shot on track 1, with the green chromakeyed out. Track 2 has the background. Now I want to do a nice fade to black, so I pull in the edges on both the track 1 and track 2 events so the person on track 1 fades at the same time as the background.

Problem is, it doesn't look right. The person sorta fades to a ghost as the background fades to black. It doesn't look like a true fade that you would see when you have Track1 and Track2 composited together.

I have two possible solutions:

1. Grab enough of the clip to encompass the fade section, render it out without the fade (so that Track1 and Track2 are properly composited together) and then replace the section with the rendered clip, and add the fade.

2. Instead of having a fade on Track1 and Track2, add a track above Track1, drop a black Solid Color media above the part where I want a fade, and do a reverse fade (i.e, fade the black up where I want a fade down in the tracks below) to create the proper fade to black.

Is there another way that I'm missing?

Comments

frederick-wise wrote on 3/11/2012, 10:53 PM
I would just render your 2 tracks to a new track then fade it out as needed. I assume you want to fade to black of course.
Former user wrote on 3/11/2012, 11:01 PM
I always do #2. It is easy and works well.

Dave T2
VanLazarus wrote on 3/12/2012, 5:13 PM
The easiest way to fade a chroma keyed track is to apply a composite envelope.... no need to add extra tracks.