chroma keying on FCE

[ednarophati]

i've been using a green screen when i shoot broadcasts on DV at work and i've had no problem with the chroma keyer on final cut express. now we're trying to have the office over seas send video to me so i can edit it into the broadcast. they're also using a green screen, but i'm having trouble keying it out.

at first, i thought it was a lit a little too dark, but they redid it and i still cant seem to work it out. but could shooting straight to the PC's hard-drive into a wmv format be the problem? does chroma key NOT work on wmv files?

i hope that makes sense.. thanks.

[terryj]

better to have them send you the raw .DV files.
WMV is a container format, but if they used a compressing codec
on the video the artifacts could be screwing with your keying,
and then trying to transcode into FCE a QT compatible file...*shudder.* Your just asking for trouble.

[ednarophati]

i c... we're sending these clips, albeit short clips time wise, through the skype messenger system, kinda like AIM. but if the files are too big, it'd take forever to send them. wouldn't the raw DV files be a little big for that?

[terryj]

1 hour of dv footage equals 13 GB.
If your just keying 15 minutes or so, that is on 3 GB.
You can transfer this via FTP, or in a .zip archive
uploaded to sites like Rapidshare, and download from there.