• Adobe After Effects

  After effects keying key light and primatte

  Posted by Dave Berry on March 16, 2015 at 12:43 am

  Hi,

  I have a virtual environment with 15-20 actors individually green screened and placed into the set for animation.

  15-20 primate instances is killing interactivity. Moving things around 3D space is just not happening. Keylight is many times faster but some of the keys are a little inconstant and I really like the edge blur.

  Ive worked on a project in cinema 4D where I set primate to matte view and exported the matt as a gray scale image and added it to the alpha channel in the material editor.

  Is there a fast way to kind of bake the layer in after effects so I no longer need to use primate when its don’t its job but without having to render down the file as a matt/mask and then import it again?

  I think especially for keying, ones its keyed, I really don’t need the keyer to be processing, just want to bake its results.

  Thanks for any help !

  Walter Soyka replied 11 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Walter Soyka

  March 16, 2015 at 12:51 pm

  [Dave Berry] “Is there a fast way to kind of bake the layer in after effects so I no longer need to use primate when its don’t its job but without having to render down the file as a matt/mask and then import it again? “

  If you pre-compose the layer with the key effect, moving all attributes into the new composition, you can either pre-render [link] or proxy [link] the precomp.

  Personally, I find full-resolution, high-quality proxies to be the superior solution since changes can be more easily managed; just make sure to adjust your render settings so that Proxy Use is set to “Current Settings” when you render.

  Walter Soyka
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