This is darn near impossible. A friend of mine, a keying genius, had
to try to do this once. Keying white is impossible. Grey? GOOD
LUCK! Roto is your only possible solution.
Seriously.
-shane
On Oct 24, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Robert Griffiths wrote:
> Brett,
>
> Kinda depends what you are trying to put the footage on top of. If
> you are trying to put them back on a homogenous white background, you
> may luck out. I've always treated it like a key, so Keylight or any
> good keying software will help. Of course, if anyone/thing is wearing
> white/grey, you'll have to cut holdback mattes. If you luck out and
> nobody is wearing white, you can feather things a bit and get nice
> white smiles and bright eyes... overdo it and it gets creepy.
>
> Believe it or not, I used to shoot this way on purpose. Worked
> great... within a VERY limited range. Pretty much unnecessary these
> days with modern keyers.
>
> Ahh, I remember those days... not too fondly. Good Luck!
>
> ---
> Bob
> ------
> Robert Griffiths
> http://www.FireDanc
>
> On Oct 24, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Brett Nicoletti wrote:
>
> > Hey folks.
> >
> > I'm trying to key some footage that was shot over whit (actually
> kind
> > of gray). I feel like there's a way to do this nicely using the
> > Composite Mode pull down menu, but have yet to find the successful
> > combination of Composite modes for my 2 layers. Does anyone have any
> > suggestions on how to do this cleanly/efficiently
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brett Nicoletti
> > www.smile-edit.
> >
> >
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