Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #42513
From: Chris Meyer <chris@crishdesign.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] shooting greenscreen & camera 'detail'
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:32:07 -0600
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
The general advice is to turn off any "detail" or sharpening parameter when shooting greenscreen. The function of that feature is often to harden edges, and you want nice, naturally soft, antialiased edges to create nicer matte lines when you key your shot and place it over another.

Unless "conventional wisdom" has changed the past few years (I haven't done a lot of keying lately).
 
 - Chris



On Mar 13, 2012, at 5:02 PM, Sharon Etter wrote:

hi
am hoping this is not OT, as it's a part of the whole After Effects keying workflow - (of which all the variations of Keylight recipes are incredibly useful) - 

when shooting, what do you folks do with your 'Detail' setting if you have a budget model HD camcorder, i.e. JVC 150?  Turn it off completely, leave at normal default, or some other setting between –1 and -7?  We find a very, very fine 'halo' often appears around lighter areas of the subject, (in the source footage) often when leaving detail at default, disabling it totally means no halo, so a cleaner key, but then other detail you want, i.e. hair has to go too - 

just curious what after effects listers do – general rules seem to suggest turning off any sharpening i.e. detail for green screen, but what love to know what you do?
ta
Sharon


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