Production Diary Part 4

Well, today has been extremely productive for me. I decided to skip learning Apple's Motion for now, as it is just too close to the assignment due date for more hiccups. What I did instead, was to focus on getting a pretty good chroma key out of Final Cut Pro, using the edit suites at TAFE with the proper broadcast monitor and also a big 42" Samsung LED TV to really be able to see how it will display as a final product.

I must say, I have been fairly negative about this project, because nothing has gone right for me in the making of this film clip- but I am really pleased with myself and my nearly finished product! Anything that looked a bit yucky after I keyed it, I just added a squillion FX (disclaimer- you can't actually use a squillion fx as there are not that many in FCP) to so you couldn't tell the green screen was still partly there. Plus I have a really good grasp on the inbuilt Chroma keyer in Final Cut Pro, which means I don't really need to go and spend money on a 3rd party suite for this, but it would still be beneficial eventually. Perhaps when I get a proper video capable MacPro with the Final Cut Suite and stuff...

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Anyway, I think everyone will be happy with the final film clip when it's done. I really only have to work out how to keyframe in some background colour changes and also do some opacity changes for a couple of nice little effects I have going. Shouldn't take me all day, and then I shall be done with an entire day to spare in case something goes wrong. But I'm hoping nothing else will go wrong...