Regardless of software, lighting, and everything else, the compression and color sampling of the format make a perfect key a technical impossibitity. But for your basic talking head over green, there should be no reason to go beyond what is built into these programs.įinally, as mentioned many times, MiniDV sucks for chroma key footage. However, having said that, for more demanding needs (say you need to deal with transparency of a glass pitcher of water or something), there are a ton of plug ins that will run within FCP or AE. If you need more than those programs have to offer, then you are not shooting your green screens properly. Right there you have three great options for chroma keying (FCP, After Effects, and Motion (which I don't really know much about-I'm old and therefore still use After Effects.but I'm sure Motion will chroma key)
As software goes, the basics should include Final Cut Studio, After Effects, and Photoshop. As you get into this hobby, career, wharever you're going with it, you should start by collecting the basics. It's apparent from your posts in the last week that you are an amatuer, and that's cool.
But it's not the standard you measure others by. Not to say it's not a fine piece of software.I'm sure it is. It is not the standard by which you should be judging other software. I've made my living iin this business since 1987, and I've never heard of Ultra 2. And that's only if you have the skills to make it mediocre. If you have poor footage with hot spots, dark spots, and shadows all over and poor lighting on the foreground subject-no matter what the sales brochure tells you - your result will be mediocre at best. If you have well lit, well shot footage, a chroma key is a very easy thing to do. More importantly, as we've talked about in earlier threads, green screen work is as much about technique and skill in shoooting as it is about the technical process once you're in the dit suite. Which is "best" for you will have more to do with your preference as far as interface, etc. To a great extent, it doesn't matter which one you use. There are literally dozens of software products that will do chroma key.
#Chroma key software for mac windows#
I am not sure of any stand alone keying software for macintosh (or windows for that matter) but there are plugins out there for the different NLE apps, these included keylight or primatte, but the most notable and most effective keying I have worked with and currently still use often is Ultimatte Advantedge, although very expensive (and quite slow), it can achieve a fantastic key from very poor footage (trust me, thats why I bought it) If however your footage is not up to scratch and the built in keyers are having a hard time, then you will need to look at a plugin to help.
It all really comes down to how good your you light your screen and foreground and what it is your trying to key (simple layout vs complex maybe due to someone's out of control hair do), if you spend enough time and effort with your shoot and record it onto a relatively good medium (DV is bad for keying due to the lower colour space, its best to go with an uncompressed medium such as Digital Betacam or HDCAM depending on your resolution and make sure your working in an uncompressed work space) Then you can achieve a good key from final cut or after effects built in keyers for no additional cost other than the edit software. We are not talking of image quality of final output, its the quality of the key of the talent or object on a chromo key background (Blue/Green Screen).
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