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Cutting background from video?
First off, I’m new to this site and Premiere Pro, and looking for some seasoned advice on how to create a somewhat simple video file that’s going to be imported into a Flash presentation. What I’m looking to accomplish is to have a video of a person talking with a translucent background. So, all the viewer sees is a cutout of this person talking in the Flash presentation. I really don’t see it as being very complex task, however have yet to figure out how to edit out a background of a video to be translucent. Can someone please offer some tips on how to accomplish this? Or other advice on what paths to take?
Thanks!
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Did you shoot the person against a background of a solid, uniform color, like blue or green? If so, then you can use color keying to separate the foregound subject from the background. You can do that in Premiere Pro, though After Effects is more powerful for this kind of thing.
If you didn’t shoot the subject against a solid, uniform color, then you’ll need to use a compositing program like After Effects—potentially using rotoscoping, which can be very tedious.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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We actually just had some green screen footage that Keylight would NOT key cleanly, and since our former ‘go to’ keyer – Ultra Key – hasn’t been available, we’ve done all of our keying in Keylight. But, now that they’ve included Ultra Key into PPro, albeit a slightly watered down version, I decided to give it a try on this footage. It worked absolutely beautifully. Saved my life, and I told Karl Soule so at NAB. Would’ve kissed him if my wife hadn’t been standing there, along with a few hundred others. Ultra Key will be my first choice from now on, since the ability to remain in PPro is a huge timesaver. If it can’t perform, there’ll always be Keylight.
Steve Brame
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Steve, I had a similar experience. After using Keylight in AE for all of my greenscreen projects over the past 2 years, I tried some problematic footage in the newly included Ultra Key in Premiere and, voila – problem solved!
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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