Any expert in Keying out there?

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

I can take a stab at this.

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Here they are. You need to copy the noise reduction and color correction effects as well. Note that two layers are used, the top one has been keyed and set as track matte for the bottom color corrected footage.

9190_matted.aep.zip

[Albert Trevino]

Ok. Again finally got some time to work on this project. I appreciate your file working on these shots.
Unfortunately I couldn’t really use it.

The main one I am really having issue with is Video 002 listed from above.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oboi9f2b4x1fd74/Video%20002.mov?dl=0

He has a reflection on top of his head and also has a glow around him that I tried everything to get rid of.
Tried a few different things to fix that and rendered out sample of it. I found that there is now a glow or whatever under his arms between his torso and arms.

Here is the sample of what I rendered. The background is pretty close to what will be used in the final output of this project.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/aewuhv6zrz0phjd/Video%20002%20%5BKey%20Attempt1%5D.mp4?dl=0

I am very serious what I said I will pay someone to have a clean key on this particular video clip.
If you decide to tackle this and use anything outside of the standard Keylight or RedGiant plugins, I will buy it to use. I just have to know that it is a very good clean key.

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Hi Albert.
Unfortunately I don’t currently have time to do this in more detail, but you can get a decent enough of a key with Keylight. The best thing to do is to use two mattes, one for the head and one for the rest of the body. That biggest problem with this footage is that has this unsharp-mask caused extra edge on the clothing. You can’t really get a clean key for both the head and the body at the same time, as you have to choke the matte for the body but there’s no choke needed for the head so it ends up looking less than ideal with just one matte. The settings I made were better for the body — although I didn’t have the entire footage to check it on — so you should be able to use those settings (or something very close to it) for the body, and then tweak the settings for the head separately. Removing the choke will already get you most of the way there. Basically you need two matte layers combined with a soft mask around the shoulder/neck area, precomp that and use it as the track matte.