). I put up another one of my own matte fixes in the first post.
I haven't run into the same weird things that I ran into in Empire. I've run mostly into hue adjustment issues, which I've taken care of manually. So all is good. On a scale of 1-10, it's hard to say the difficulty of the histogram work in avisynth. The histograms have really helped with taking care of small details, I couldn't have gotten white walls on the Tantive on my own, but I definitely needed to go in myself and make sure C3PO was the right hue and everything...I suppose a 3 or 4 in difficulty, getting it to look good enough to start editing with.
Okay, actually, this shot is pissing me off:
I've tried everything to get the stars back here, it's one of the rare shots where there still aren't a reasonable number of stars that can be seen in a properly lighted room, even with an HD source and brightened video. I've tried a chroma key function to get rid of the black and put a layer of bright stars underneath it, but it does that thing where the non black parts start getting all choppy, you know what I'm talking about? It's not in this frame. Well anyway, maybe it's the quality of Premiere Pro's function, I might give avisynth's layer function a shot, hopefully it's better.
Does anybody know how to do a chroma key in avisynth? The manual didn't have any specific examples in the layers section.