Please read. The one thing I don't understand and struggle with are all the fine tuning controls. It is so difficult to use. For example, lets say that you have a perfect circle that you have already keyed in primate. Now you have a matte. The circle itself is the " Foreground " and outside the circle is the background. If you have a hole in the circle, its almost impossible to clean up when that hole is the same color as background. No way to isolate. I tried and tried.
@alexpho It's very common in any keying situation, all the way up to the Diamond Keyer in Flame, to isolate different aspects of a key via masks/matte layers. This is one thing that Keylight does have, which is the ability to define a mask to preserve as an inside (unkeyed) area. OR, just duplicate the original and mask the inside. Same thing.
@graymachinedotcom Thanks for the reply. You just gave me an idea in regards to duplicating the layer. My frustration was that Primatte " Knows " what the shape of my matte is but all hell breaks loose when I try to fix the inner matte and it picks up the same color on the outer matte, hence the tools as matte sponge, refine, etc. are not really that intuitive. Thank you
@noobdles I just ran a test with 2 identical comps, one keying with Primatte and one with Keylight. Keylight took 52 seconds, Primatte 45 seconds. I'll post a screencast if you'd like.
Please read. The one thing I don't understand and struggle with are all the fine tuning controls. It is so difficult to use. For example, lets say that you have a perfect circle that you have already keyed in primate. Now you have a matte. The circle itself is the " Foreground " and outside the circle is the background. If you have a hole in the circle, its almost impossible to clean up when that hole is the same color as background. No way to isolate. I tried and tried.
alexpho 3 days ago
@alexpho It's very common in any keying situation, all the way up to the Diamond Keyer in Flame, to isolate different aspects of a key via masks/matte layers. This is one thing that Keylight does have, which is the ability to define a mask to preserve as an inside (unkeyed) area. OR, just duplicate the original and mask the inside. Same thing.
graymachinedotcom 3 days ago
@graymachinedotcom Thanks for the reply. You just gave me an idea in regards to duplicating the layer. My frustration was that Primatte " Knows " what the shape of my matte is but all hell breaks loose when I try to fix the inner matte and it picks up the same color on the outer matte, hence the tools as matte sponge, refine, etc. are not really that intuitive. Thank you
alexpho 3 days ago
Keylight is much better
ravi20tewari 2 months ago
@ravi20tewari I've used both for years.. and can spout a dozen reasons why I like Primatte better. But, suit yourself.
graymachinedotcom 2 months ago
primmate is slooow to render compared to keylight, even with multiple keylight mattes primmate is about 500% slower to render in AE cs5
noobdles 4 months ago
@noobdles I just ran a test with 2 identical comps, one keying with Primatte and one with Keylight. Keylight took 52 seconds, Primatte 45 seconds. I'll post a screencast if you'd like.
graymachinedotcom 4 months ago
@graymachinedotcom hmm I must be doing something wrong, what format are you rendering out as?
noobdles 4 months ago
@noobdles sorry that was meant to be 50% not 500% - Im running cs 5 with q9400 6gb ram 8800 GTS
noobdles 4 months ago
How do you get the checker background?
moviemowdown 6 months ago
@moviemowdown you toggle the transparency next to where it says active camera
PuneyGuney 6 months ago
thanks
GarlynX 10 months ago