The Green Screen footage I filmed over the weekend for our Ten Before (Video Info Segments before the Main Church Service starts) falls into two categories; the more serious and professional set of shots for the main service Ten before and the kind of slap stick chaotic form for the Ten Before of our KIDStuf environment.
Now I decided in the end to film 720p as apposed to 1080p, probably a good call because working with 720p on a MacBook Pro is hard enough. I can certainly play the footage back with no problems, but as soon as Keying is done (or for that matter; any filters added) things get a bit hairy.
In Shake I have wait a few seconds if I move the play head (after adding the nodes for keying), shock and horror. Then rendering my file out node takes over a second per frame, gosh. In the end I’ll need to render out about 5 mins.
In Final Cut Pro, I was originally thinking of working in a ProRes422 timeline, but if I render out from Shake and want to keep the alpha channel then I need to Render out using the Animation codec which required more rendering in FCP which does not take took long.
The other thing is the fact that good ole Tom (our Comic KIDStuf host) with his remarkable ability to be funny, a good improvisor and energetic does not make life easy when it come to editing. This is purely because the script becomes secondary and the structure irrelevant :-o – but very funny nonetheless.
So somehow I need to finish the KIDStuf Ten Before in 2 days, which ummm I must add will be umm err an errrr Miracle.
