premier?

alternatefutures · Post by **alternatefutures** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 3:05 pm

So, what have we learned? For the quick and dirty method, chromakey helps to cover your mistakes. For the anal retentive amoung us, Photoshop's alpha channel helps keep your ass retaining ^_^

stormychef · Post by **stormychef** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 8:53 pm

ZeWrestler: Yeah you got the link right and thanks for that!

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 9:00 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:I've become a big fan of the green screen approach lately.

Chromakeying with the Powerpuff Girls was fun... (in Right Now) They're made up of primary colours! <slap forehead> I ended up using 128,0,128, I believe.

stormychef · Post by **stormychef** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 10:11 pm

I didn't realize it was that simple.

You get that!
Yeah and green screen will be better for me to use considering I will be working with skin tones...
Thanks for the help everyone...

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Sat Aug 03, 2002 10:14 pm

stormychef wrote: -And I vow to steal Kaji away from you... -

That's okay with him.Means less Misato competition.

VegettoEX · Post by **VegettoEX** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 3:01 pm

I was actually talking with AD about this subject, this morning.

The video we're working on has some parts where we're taking an image from PhotoShop, and placing it in Premiere w/o the background.

Easy, of course. Just import the one layer you want, overlay it with the video, boom, you're done.

For some reason, though, PhotoShop was rendering the effects in the layer, but Premiere just REFUSED to recognize them AT ALL. No matter what we tried. NO MATTER. We did EVERYTHING.

So for this specific thing, we're going to try the "Green Screen" approach and see what happens. The "smoothing" option is actually going to be better for this one, anyway.

When it comes down to it, I think both methods are important to know, if you're going to attempt this kind of thing. See what works best for you :D.

alternatefutures · Post by **alternatefutures** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 4:46 pm

You didn't try very hard. To make a layer effect permanent, just make another, empty layer, link the two together and Layer -> Merge Linked. Import to Premiere and you're done.

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 9:47 am

Or I think you can prob ably just render the layer's effects, right?

FYI Layer effects exist only in Photoshop itself. They are applied in realtime to the image and only the instructions on how to render them are stored in the .PSD file, and thus anything reading the layer from the PSD file will not have the effects with it. I encountered this using multiple layers from photoshop in after effects, but premiere behaves the same way.

You can render the layer's effects by saying Create Layers and then merging the layers as altfutures suggested, I think you can also go to the layer and say "Rasterize" but that might only work with text layers. Basically once you do that, it commits the changes and burns them into the picture, as opposed to rendering them from instructions (the difference between prerendered backgrounds in say, Final Fantasy 7 and the realtime-rendered-characters).