[Keying] Keying a powdered sugar sifter, tips please :)

[John Cuevas]

That is going to be really tough. First, when you shoot, move the sifter farther away from your green, you are apt to get less reflections. Also, check out this tutorial The Portal, from Andrew Kramer, starting around 5 minutes into it. He uses a pretty good technique for isolating green spill and removing it from your footage using keylight. I think it would help out a lot in getting the green off the sifter in your situation.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK

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—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[Chris Brett]

Hi — looks like its only the side thats a real problem so might be worth doing a test where you knock back the reflectivity with matt spray or matt varnish — if the product still looks ok that might solve a lot of problems

Also if the product doesnt have any complex movement ( hand holding upright enters frame and then out again say ) then it might be practical to garbage matte it if keying problems persist…

Also – it depends what you are keying it over —- green grass might solve a lot of problems ! ! 🙂

——————————————- chris

[Richard Herd]

The Rotobrush is now your friend. 🙂