I've filed a support request with BorisFX since there is definitely something goofy going on with just the Chroma Key Plugin.

When I applied the BCC Chroma Key nothing happened, but when I selected the color (so I could get the eye-dropped to select the green) it died. I worked with the leaner Color Key and the Matte Choker with and without the garbage matte.

The subject was fine, but the camera's boost was cranked, so the original matte is speckled. WIth this footage (which I sadly didn't shoot), the light was really low. I'm just so used to garbage mattes in AE that I figured I'd do the same here (there's a bit of scene spill at the edges that needs to be cropped because of how wide I wanted to go on the shot. I'm using the same versions of Vegas and BBC as you. For anyone interested, you can find a screen capture of a crash (it happens consistently, but unpredictably - which is to say it WILL crash, I just couldn't tell you when).ĭanii Brown Posts: 498 Joined: Tue 1:13 am Next step: shoot some other footage and try different resolutions and simultaneously prod the BorisFX guys to see what might be up.Ī further update. UPDATE: I did a clean install of VP10a and BCC - same behaviour.Vegas greys out (a Win7 effect) and I get a generic 'Vegas has stopped working' message. Ps: I normally shoot in 720p since that's what I output to.I'm going to shoot a little 1080 and see if there's something in 'the math' about 720. Generally I've used Primatte in AE until now, but the first couple of runs with BCC's Chroma were just as good and MUCH faster (and eliminated any transcoding and the usual back and forth nonsense). Maybe I'll wipe and reinstall both Vegas and BCC and see if I get different results. Thanks for doing that Rosto.that's good to know. I have to use the task manager to unload Vegas.Īman Bhattal Posts: 545 Joined: Sat 6:01 pm I'll make some adjustments, and then >poof< Vegas goes down. The problem seems to manifest itself when I close the properties window. When it works, it works GREAT (IMHO, BCC, when working is much easier with equal results in less time than Primatte for AE). I'm applying the BCC Chroma key onto the track, then following that with Matte Choker to clean up low light (which makes for a speckled matte). I just need to remove the green and render the footage with alpha for someone else to work with (boring grunt work, but it pays).Įditing is like a 12-step program: one track at a time.just one clip, no other layering. The footage varies in length between 20 seconds to 3 minutes. The footage content is a green screen footage (talking head in front of a screen - no garbage matte required - it's pretty much green screen and a face). Footage is XDCAM 720p dragged and dropped onto the timeline (mp4).

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