Coors Light commercial FX on training video

[Todd Kopriva]

I have no idea what commercials you’re talking about.

If you want to replace the background behind a subject, then I really hope that you shot the subject against a solid-color screen like a greenscreen, so that you can use color keying. (Premiere Pro has some keying effects, but After Effects is the better tool for the job.)

If not, then you’ll need to use a far more tedious set of features for creating transparency and separating your foreground subject from the background. There are plenty of options described in “Compositing overview and resources”.

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[Sean Odea]

Thanks for the reply. The commercials reference cut between old news conferences with since retired coaches to actors cracking wise-ass questions. The content is a bit tedious but my point is that the coaches were not shot against a green screen. The ads replace the curtains with team logos and sponsors that were in the original new conferences with Coors Light logos.

That being said, the original source footage was not shot over anything that can be keyed. It was shot over in front of a hospital wall with a computer monitor in the background.

I don’t mind the tedium of separating the speaker from the background if it’s going to look good afterwards. Are the tools here sophisticated enough to do that? I’ll check them out either way. Thanks for the tip!

[Todd Kopriva]

> Are the tools here sophisticated enough to do that?

After Effects has good rotoscoping tools. Premiere Pro does not.

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[Tim Kolb]

Yes, whenever you need to build a matte around something that wasn’t shot as a key, that matte needs to be built for each frame…

“Rotoscoping” is the term you’d hear referring to this process.

Premiere Pro’s masking tools aren’t up to this job, but this is the sort of thing that After Effects is created to do.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Sean Odea]

Thank you Tim. Can you suggest tutorials to get up to par on rotoscoping?

[Todd Kopriva]

This page is full of tips and links to tutorials about rotoscoping:
“Rotoscoping introduction and resources”

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