
I like using Red Giant's Primatte in conjunction with Spill Kill. It really depends on how much work you want to do on your keys. I'm sure keying in 4K and squishing the final comp down to 1080 would look great. But yes having more resolution would help. I still see bad keys in big Hollywood movies.

This forum brings together some fine people. I would have thought that 1080p would be enough, but I would imagine 2.5K and 4 K could only be better.Īgain, thank you all for sharing your wisdom and experience. I wonder if sometimes the difference comes down to pure resolution, i.e. Despite this, I still am occasionally challenged by the frizzy haired subject.

The lattermost tool I find surprisingly effective. I do continue to explore how best to build a matte, having worked with Key Light, Ultra Matte and FCPX's keyer. Along the way, my techniques for lighting for green screen have improved. I have been shooting green screened interviews - but not exclusively - for the last two years. Tom Fuldner wrote:Thank you all for generating this discussion. 4:2:2 is nice to pull keys but not as good as Raw or 4:4:4, if you want the best possible Key, Raw beats hands down Prores. I use Nuke often pulling Keys using Raw data that has been converted to DNxHD 444, this not only makes the files more usable and smaller but it contains practically all the colour information from the Raw file. Raw is far superior to Prores at pulling keys, I should know, I'm a VFX artist who works on Keys all day. My next point, assuming he has good lighting and knows his way around keying green screen, you're completely wrong and feeding him misinformation that is simply wrong. In that case don't dress the talent in stripy shirts and he'll be fine.

Unless you're referring to what's in front of the screen.

Actually you might even get into additional trouble with raw, because it seems to suffer more from moiré than ProRes.įirstly how does moire effect Green Screen work more than Prores? the screen itself is unaffected because it's just a clear green colour with no pattern. Factors outside of the camera will have a much greater impact on the keying than the recording format (at this high level). Mac Jaeger wrote:RAW won't key worse than ProRes, for sure.
