OT: Need comments on Composit Lab Pro chromakeying

will-3 wrote on 3/24/2008, 5:24 PM

I'm looking at some other Chromakey tools as we have a bunch of it to do in an upcoming project... and do quickly each time... little time to tweak and dink...

Vegas works great in some cases... others where the video was not shot in the best circumstances creates lots of work.

Visual Communicator seems to do well and automatically corrects for lots of common problems... poorly lite screen, subjects, hair, etc.

But... it requires video from the cam via firewire... or from a VCR... or from the cam in VCR mode... Visual Communicator will not let you chromakey an existing file... say a subject shot in front of a green screen... you gotta give it video from the cam or a VCR via the firewire to have the chromakey work.

Ultra will do files... but now Adobe makes you buy a bundle of stuff wheather you need it or not...

Someone suggested Composit Lab Pro... only $150 and I'm trying to do my research... Any one here ever used it? How does it compair to Visual Communicator? To Vegas?

We really want to do everything in Vegas... but doing quick keying on a large number of shorts... shot in good to bad circumstances... may be one for a special tool.

Thanks for any feedback and/or comments.

Comments

Cheno wrote on 3/24/2008, 5:35 PM

I downloaded the demo of Composite Labs Pro awhile back - was not bad. Have you tested the Cinegobs keyer yet? Bo has just released a new version in the past few days.

If you're wanting a good "one button" keyer with little hassle, chances are you're going to have to fork out some money for it. The cinegobs would be your best bet if you're not wanting to spend much (or nothing) - I would highly suggest trying it out.

As far as full experience with Composite Labs Pro I don't have any but in following the fxhome guys over the past few years, they've really kicked out some good looking products. - try the demo.

cheno

logiquem wrote on 3/25/2008, 2:06 PM

Always use a chroma blur filter ahead the chromakey filter in Vegas to get a much smoother key.

BTW, why not using a laptop to feed your computer with a firewire stream from your original files? Maybe you could fool Visual communicator with this trick?

will-3 wrote on 3/25/2008, 3:35 PM

Now there is an idea loqiquem. I'll give that a shot ! Thanks.

will-3 wrote on 3/25/2008, 3:36 PM

Cheno... thanks for the tip. I'll download the Chinegobs Keyer and give it a try.

thanks again for the help.