DivX Keying

Dravonic · Post by **Dravonic** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:18 am

I guess I know what you mean. You're probably trying to extract something from a image based on whether it moves or not... thats is actually a great idea specially on anime because in most anime studios they are too lazy, so they normaly do the scene the easiest way possible. That means that in a lot of scenes characters move but the background doesn't and with such an effect (the same one video codecs with inter-frame compression use) you would have a character cutout from a lot of frames (what would normaly take long tedios hours) in a few seconds.

The problem is I don't know any effects that does it so I won't be able to help xD

Hopefuly my explanation will help people understand better what you meant, since most of them got confused, and help you :p

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 11:47 am

Uh, how about Color Key?

Dravonic · Post by **Dravonic** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:51 pm

The problem with colour key is that you almost never will find a character in a keyable background. If you try to key the character out with the colour key you will end up removing parts of the character too.

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:43 pm

Dravonic wrote:The problem with colour key is that you almost never will find a character in a keyable background. If you try to key the character out with the colour key you will end up removing parts of the character too.

Then you need to be more careful. My ACen project is full color keying. It just means you have to actually work to find appropriate clips with a background you can color key out.

Not that hard, really.