• Adobe After Effects

  Removing white background from footage

  Posted by Dave Frith on June 21, 2011 at 2:06 pm

  Hi All,

  I have a Quicktime mov file, which is black and white.
  The people are silhouettes in black and the background is white.

  I am trying to remove the white background, so the background is transparent so I can place the people silhouettes ontop of other footage.

  I have tried using transfer/blending mode to screen / multiply but no luck.

  Any help or suggestion would be greatly welcomed.

  Thanks

  Dave

  Dave Frith replied 15 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Brian Charles

  June 21, 2011 at 2:27 pm

  If the footage is indeed only black and white you could use a linear color key to key out the white background and a matte choker to clean it up.

  If you need more control you could use Keylight to remove the background.
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  Dave Frith

  June 21, 2011 at 2:56 pm

  Thanks for the replies.

  I used the keylight and it worked great.

  Thanks for the help.

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