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  Keying Out Shadow Next to Subject?

  Posted by Max Jackson on January 12, 2011 at 11:10 pm

  I’ve been going back and forth between keylight, selective color keys and spill suppressor and I can’t seem to key out this subtle shadow next to this lady’s foot.

  It’d be an insanely long roto job so I have to key it out.

  Can somebody tell me what they do to handle green screen shadows touching there subject? There’s tons of spill on this subject too, but that’s a whole other challenge I can try to balance in another key.

  Right now I’m just trying to get a clean edge but this shadow “thing” is constantly attached to her foot.

  Any suggestions? Been on this thing for hours.

  Max Jackson replied 15 years, 4 months ago 61,151 Members · 1 Reply
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  Max Jackson

  January 14, 2011 at 7:55 pm

  Sorry for the delayed response. I thought I had the thread set to send to email.

  Yeah, I actually ended up doing something like that. A two-layer keylight job and then just tweaked the settings and added a simpler choker to the core reducing it a bit for edge pixelation.

  Funny, I didn’t even need a junk matte for this one, it just sort of finally fell into place.

  Thanks Dave!

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