Re Post: Trying to make 1311 mouth clips look better

[BobAchgill]

I had first posted this in the General Forum but i I probably should have posted here where the filter guys hang out...

Can someone bail me out and show me how I can use VirtualDub filtering to make my 1311 mouth video clips look better? Strangly enough the clips look best in MediaPlayer ... not VirtualDub. But the color is pits either way. I shot the clips with a Canon miniDV camcorder.

Here is the sample... http://www.godanddeaf.org/c/scenes'20090705%2003.05.58---mpeg4-1958.zip

My ultimate goal is to green screen and crop so just the lips/mouth show. So don't laugh at my green screen clown makeup!

Thanks!

Bob

P.S. the lip clips (see above) are for a new free reading tool I am making to help deaf learn to read in developing countries. Hopefully by adding the lip clips they can also brush up on their lip reading skills.

[jagabo]

You need to use less reflective makeup or change your lighting. All those shiny spots will make it impossible to matte.

[BobAchgill]

My problem is with how the color of the lips and teeth look marginal in Media Player but much worse in VirtualDub.

The tool I am using for matting out the green seems to be working. It allows me to select four different key colors. And by the time I crop almost all of the reflected areas on the green are out of the picture.

Bob

[jagabo]

I don't know what you mean by the color looking marginal. The color looks a little too red to me. You could fix that with your camcorders white balance setting (when shooting). Or filtering existing video with VirtualDub. They look very flat (lighting wise) too -- you could improve the shading by moving the lights up and off to the side.

It's not surprising that they look different in a media player and your desktop (VirtualDub) because they use different methods to get video onto the screen. Media players usually use the graphics card's video overlay. VirtualDub uses Windows GDI for its two display panes. These have different proc amp settings in the graphics card's setup applet.