Z CARS

[rayc]

Tips for video making...green screening B&W is a nightmare.
I found, by trial & error, that processing the green screening of the colour "footage" outside the project, (recorded with a green screen behind in this instance), produced a sharp image against a black background that could be imported and changed to B&W within the project afterward and then overlain with much better results.
I had to blur some of the background "footage" because it collected a copyright strike on 1st upload. I tweaked things, added the overlays and passed the checks.
I did find the stuff via the Utub creative commons filter but I assume the uploader received the same strike - which was that it was allowed to be used but ads would be placed.

[Greg_L]

Hahah very nice Ray. You've made huge improvements.

[Alison]

Really like this, Ray. The song and the video are very well done!

[vomitHatSteve]

I would have thought you could remove the bg with chroma key, then filter it down to B&W all within the same FX chain

[rayc]

I would have thought you could remove the bg with chroma key, then filter it down to B&W all within the same FX chain

Yeah, you can but the machine I'm using isn't great so I was working on some aspects outside the project to avoid slowing down the process and render times.
The main point is GS before B&W.

[vomitHatSteve]

I would have thought you could remove the bg with chroma key, then filter it down to B&W all within the same FX chain

Yeah, you can but the machine I'm using isn't great so I was working on some aspects outside the project to avoid slowing down the process and render times.
The main point is GS before B&W.

Do you get re-encoding issues with that kind of workflow? (those screenshot of a jpg issues that repeated compression does) Or does the fact that your original video needs to be down-sampled to match the public domain stuff smooth over those wrinkles?

[rayc]

Do you get re-encoding issues with that kind of workflow? (those screenshot of a jpg issues that repeated compression does) Or does the fact that your original video needs to be down-sampled to match the public domain stuff smooth over those wrinkles?

Nothing significant unless I really pile on the fx...enlarging certainly gets ugly quickly so I've learnt just about how far to go before rendering.