green screening in anime studio

swrecordings · Post by **swrecordings** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 12:47 am

i know you can do it with masking but to do it for a long video takes ages. is there a quicker was to do it in anime studio then the masking?

thanks in advance
sw

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 5:04 am

try this, http://cinegobs.com/software/cinegobs-keyer

swrecordings · Post by **swrecordings** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 5:32 am

i found i have a software that does it, i was just wondering of there is an easy way to do it in AS. ah well.

Rhoel · Post by **Rhoel** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:18 am

SW,

I don't quite follow what you are trying to do - are you trying to incorporate a green screen shot or just output to another composite program?

If its just outputting with a green screen, why not just use the alpha.

If its a removal of green screen, more difficult, as most screens are not "flat colour". There is a way of using the Layer Blending mode option but I have to check the combination.

Rhoel

swrecordings · Post by **swrecordings** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:52 pm

i am trying to remove the green screen from a video. i found i have a piece of software that does that. but i was hoping to be able to to it all in AS. guess not.

swrecordings · Post by **swrecordings** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:40 am

actually, my software is not exporting the alpha after the green is removed. lets see what i can get from this software...

swrecordings · Post by **swrecordings** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 3:30 am

the new software is telling me that i need to have "avisynth" installed. where can i get this?

Rhoel · Post by **Rhoel** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:57 am

SW, I tried several combination of the Layer Blend but to no avail - I can kill the green screen but the background is a new colour, not transparent.

The only program I have which can do this is Combustion, which isn't cheap.

The alternative is to do the composite in an edit suite - many have some green screen support.

Rhoel

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:49 am

Many stop motion frame grabber programs have green screen removal features built in. Try Helium Frog -- it's free!

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:24 am

AS can't remove the green or any other colour because it uses images and videos as a closed container, not looking inside the pixel values. The only thing it recognizes is an alpha channel. So you need to create that alpha channel in other software prior to import video into AS.

A recommended codec to use for importing video with alpha is "PNG, millions+ colours".