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  • Difference Keyers

    Posted by Joe Busam on December 30, 2009 at 3:48 pm

    Hello peeps!

    I’m neck deep in a motion control post project (a la Michel Gondry’s Kylie Minogue music video) and was hoping to use AE’s Difference keyer. However it doesn’t seem to be very forgiving. Are there any 3rd party difference keyers out there that anyone could recommend? I’m looking to be delivered from rotoscope hell!

    -Joe

    Steve Roberts replied 16 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Steve Roberts

    December 30, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    Indeed.

    The problem with diff keying (aside from noise) arises when FG and BG show areas of the same color … which is usually around grays and browns.
    Is there any way you can mess with levels & color correction on the footage to pull out any colors that might be similar between the two? (applying the same effect to the clip with talent and the clip without). Then you key, then use the keyed footage as an alpha matte.

    It might work …

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