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DEAN SCOTT
SILICON MAGIC
www.tir.com/~dscott/

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WNEM Campaign Compositing - WaveFilter Image Matte Filters and Edge Blend Alpha Edges Only

SK-Key105
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SK-Image105
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SK-ID105
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WNEM
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SK-Key105 -
    Dean used WaveFilter Image to generate a "chromakey" matte of frame 105 using its interactive Color Range selector to "white out" the blue. Sequence further batch processed in a paint box to deinterlace each frame and blur the matte edges to help reduce NTSC video artifact noise.  A white border also added to cover up NTSC video border garbage for a clean polygon clipmap edge.



SK-Image105 -
    Raw NTSC video frame 105 of talent in front
of a properly lit chromakey blue curtain.










SK-ID105 -
    Final LightWave composite using the "SK-key" image sequence as a planar clipmap on a 3:4 aspect ratio polygon surfaced with the "SK-img" sequence (which was also deinterlaced).
     WaveFilter Image’s new Edge Blend-Alpha Edges Only used in Selected Surface Mode (surface special buffer set to 255).  Luminousity set to 30% and Diffuse to 70% to adjust receive shadow density.  Deinterlacing the video and matte was required since Dithered Motion Blur (field rendering thus disabled) was the desired rendering method.  Low AA rendered with a
second WaveFilter Image set to preset High AA
and Four Pass Preference.

WNEM Fall Campaign  -
    To see more of Dean Scott’s award winning work for WNEM, check out  his home page at www.tir.com/~dscott/