Chroma Keying...

In an earlier post I mentioned that I had found a chroma key tutorial for Final Cut Pro online. I also found a video on chroma key in adobe premiere.

Here are the links:
-http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/chroma_key_fcp_hd_monahan.html
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soRlw0etRCw

The video on adobe premiere was not very useful.

I recently found out that there were no After Effects/Premiere on any pc..anywhere! I asked Mark Szota about it and I learned that they were only on Macs and only in one lab...sigh.
Since the Final Cut tutorial was more helpful, I decided to try using this instead of AE.

First of all, I am not a Mac person..so it always takes me twice as long to do something on a Mac than on a pc. I slowly went through the tutorial, which was kind of a pain. I grabbed a random picture of the internet to use as my background. After half an hour or so, I made it..it looked pretty good, except for the pants. Somehow I could see the background through parts of it. I tried correcting it, but finally gave up. I figured it must have been some lighting set up that went wrong or something.

During our studio class last week, Mark had a look at my chroma key test and showed me a MUCH MUCH MUCH faster, easier and better way to do it in AE. What took me over half an hour to do in Final Cut, was done in just ONE click in AE....aaargh! Oh well..atleast I learned a bit about Final Cut =)

The following is the testing done in Final Cut...

This one was done in After Effects...

Lesson Learnt: USE AFTER EFFECTS!!

It produces better results with less tweaking involved. Obviously I still need to work on my chroma keying skills, but for a first trial, it's not that bad.

This actually made me a bit more confident about the project. 

Note To Self: Get started on modeling!