Keying keylight

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

I can’t think of a good reason to do it this way. Is there a reason you are editing everything together first?

It makes more sense to key and composite each shot separately, and then to edit them together after they have been composited.

So, bring the green screen footage into AE – key it out – composite it with the backgrounds and effects you want to use and then bring the clips into your video editor and edit the shots with your regular non-effects shots.

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Aharon Rabinowitz
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http://www.allbetsareoff.com

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[Eric Goldstein]

Just to eloborate: I usually edit to get my greenscreen or effects shots to their final length – so I’m not doing more effects work than necessary. I then export my effects shots individually at their edited length and import them into AE. Once effect are completed, I render them and bring them back to my editing program.

Eric Goldstein
Giraffe Film Company
Los Angeles
eric@giraffefilm.com

[Benjamin Eshagpoor]

I do the same thing as Eric, but on occasion, I have been known to leave some handles on the greenscreen clips in my editing timeline (if I have dissolves or transition effects in my timeline that require the extra handles).

I use Final Cut to edit, and since there’s no way to rountrip my files to AE and back (at least not that I’m aware of), I find this to be the best overall solution, but it can be a bit cumbersome when you’re editing to music or SFX and you have a LOT of edit points that leave you with a lot clips to work with.

Ben Eshagpoor
Paragon Entertainment
beshagpoor@paragon-ent.net
beshagpoor@gmail.com