Podcast: Keying On A Black Background + Chroma Subsampling Explained

Hey guys thanks for answering my questions I am going to play this for the guys at work because I think you guys explain it a lot better then I do. I did not realize that using the chroma subsampling went back that far(Im still learning). Thanks for the knowledge and for your time guys.

That was a great discussion on my question about black levels/seeing window shapes. All of those remedies are great and of course once you said them I thought ‘dammit, that’s obvious!’ or in other terms it was ‘ah-ha’! Thanks guys.

Vincent,

You’re welcome!

Chris – I’m glad you found our answer useful. We have fun answering these questions, batting around our ideas and ways of explaining them.

Hi Guys,

I have a little tip on DSLR workflow that really pulled me out of a tight spot the other day.

I was grading a 5d short and stupidly gave the client some pretty great looking but extreme grades including a pretty aggressive vintage LUT I’ve made- of course they loved that one but an hour into the grade it became obvious the image couldn’t take this grade and was literally falling apart. It’s is a really hard conversation to have with your clients that they can’t have this grade because of their camera choice.

Fortunately there was enough budget to spend a day coming up with a solution…

I opened up their edit and ran NeatVideo across every clip and exported them as ProRes 444 (maybe unnecessary but I have the space). Back in Resolve the new footage took the strong grade and I only had to back off on a couple of shots.

Hopefully we’ll see Neat for Resolve soon as the new Da Vinci NR still isn’t doing for me on lower end sources.

One final tip would be if you follow this process try to push this job onto the editor 🙂

M.

I’d like to listen or download this, but all the download links including the mailbag link seems to be broken as well.  09/24/20022