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  • Dancing Grain on Greenscreen Keylight Footage

    Posted by Sascha Engel on August 13, 2014 at 3:07 pm

    Hi Everybody,

    Following problem: I have a Photo Frame with a green screen tissue inside. There is little Iron hooks going over the lower part of the frame (see video Sample).
    This hooks make a shadow on the greens screen which I managed to preserve, so it’s then partially visible on the Picture that I insert.
    Unfortunately, the shadow part is horrible dancing grain.
    Any idea how I can erase that through playing with the keylight settings?

    I work on CS 6, not cloud.

    Thanx a lot.

    Sample of dance grain on Keylight Footage

    Greetings,

    Sascha Engel
    TIME BANDITZ Productions
    http://www.youtube.com/taikang

    Sascha Engel replied 12 years ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
  • 4 Replies
  • Stephen Smith

    August 13, 2014 at 4:04 pm

    I have found luck with keying situations like this. With keylight I select the green shadow (darkest green) instead of the lighter green that is in the majority of the shot. That usually solves the problem. If not then you will need to mask it out. Which luckily your shot is locked down.

    Stephen Smith

    Utah Video Productions

    Check out my Vimeo page

  • Sascha Engel

    August 13, 2014 at 6:07 pm

    Hi Stephen,

    I tried the dark green thingy already and masking is not an option since I do want this part to be semi transparent since it’s a shadow casted on the picture from the hook.

    Sascha Engel
    TIME BANDITZ Productions
    http://www.youtube.com/taikang

  • Stephen Smith

    August 13, 2014 at 6:13 pm

    Dang, that isn’t good that it didn’t work. If you have to go the masking route you can then add shadows back in with color mattes. Sorry about the bad news. Hopefully someone has a better idea then mine. Have you tried playing with the different Replace Methods? Sometimes switching it to Hard Colour or the other options works.

    Stephen Smith

    Utah Video Productions

    Check out my Vimeo page

  • Sascha Engel

    August 13, 2014 at 7:25 pm

    Found a pretty perfect way to do it:

    https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/advanced_soft_keying/

    The Master, Mr. Kramer himself!

    Greetings,

    Sascha Engel
    TIME BANDITZ Productions
    http://www.youtube.com/taikang

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