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Activity Forums Adobe After Effects improve blue for keying

  • Doeke Wartena

    March 17, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    I got the material delivered, I can’t reshoot it.
    This is my first time chroma keying, I will give it a shot.

    THX

  • Chris Wright

    March 17, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    There’s good news though, no matter how bad the keying is, you can simply roto it with masks with the pen tool and keyframe mask keysframes. Perfect!

    btw, I actually got a pretty good key off this, but it’s weird how pixelated the footage it. Mainly just use a shrink matte down, soften the edge by 2 pixels, and turn on light wrap and color correct. Gotta luv primatte.

    a must read:

    https://generalspecialist.com/2006/10/greenscreen-and-bluescreen-checklist.asp

  • Brendan Coots

    March 17, 2009 at 10:27 pm

    You can’t color correct your way out of bad chromakey footage. Most keying applications, including Keylight, are “color difference” based, which means they look at the difference in color between your backdrop and the actor to know which parts to remove. If you boost the blues in your footage, the blue in the actor goes up just as much as the backdrop and the relationship between actor and backdrop is exactly the same as it was.

    Brendan Coots
    Splitvision Digital
    http://www.splitvisiondigital.com

  • David Bogie

    March 18, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    However, you CAN stack up muliple copies of your lousy key footage and apply lots of different effects to each layer until the final has a good solid matte.
    Almost every good chromakey requires at least four fitlers:
    The keyer
    Spill suppression
    One or more garbage or holdback masks
    Some color correction or contrast adjustments

    bogiesan

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