Hi,
I have a largely random question, that I am looking for, if not an answer, then maybe just a pointer in the right direction.
If I shoot a character in front of a green screen (This was a real person, and not one of our miniatures! ) with our Panasonic AF101 and our R3D Scarlet, and I bring both pieces of footage into After Effects as is - and then apply Keylight. The single click key (albe it far from perfect) is way, way cleaner on the panasonic than the R3D.
I am wondering why this is. I have come up with two possible reasons (and there might be many, many more)
1) The camera sensor reacts differently to light, and so the exposure on the Panasonic might be better than the Scarlet
2) The Panasonic camera has built in looks, and does not shoot RAW footage. The R3D reads colour differently, and so trying to key the R3W footage may not be the best way to go.
I am asking the question, fully aware that the single key click never works, and that there are several methods to key, but I am hoping that someone has a lot of experience working and keying R3W to give me some tips.
for instance, should I maybe run the R3W through RedCineX first, and make colour changes before I key, or should I immediately transcode to another codec before keying?
Any assistance would be appreciated.
I am currently busy with a render, but I will try to pull a quick screenshot from the different cameras, with a "One click key" for comparrison and attach them tomorrow.
Pierre