A tricky keying problem (bright sky -> cloudy sky)

[Todd Kopriva]

I’d draw a garbage mask to keep from including the bright windows, and then I’d use a luma key to isolate the sky.

There are some other tips for keying work here.

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[Alperen T. ayhan]

Hi, First of all if it is not a shaky footage by shooting I think I have solved it. I have copied your footage caps and have tried this: (just the that scene) open the footage in a new comp. duplicate, make above layer pre-comp. open in new window by moving all attributes. then drop your sky footage or image whatever and place it above the footage. use blending option darken. White places will be seen as your sky. And also you can use for much more correcting a mask options by using feather and mask expansion. Here is the result:

Alperen T. AYHAN
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[Michael Szalapski]

Here is a weather replacement tutorial:
Part one
Part two
Part three

And here are some sky replacement techniques:
Basic tutorial
More advanced

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(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

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