Keylight leaving grainy footage, blue screen – black magic camera

[Bracer Jack]

Hey I am the creator of that tutorial!
I am glad I am able to help Dan Pelc 🙂

And thank you Chris Wright for suggesting it 🙂

[Elliot Frahs]

Try working directly with the Cinema DNG files in AE. If you need to, give it a “video” grade that isn’t so washed out and work with that. Your goal is to pull a matte – after that work is done, you can always apply that matte to a differently-graded layer. The extra advantage is fine control over spill suppression in your final graded layer.

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

“Is this footage more realistic to get a good key out of?”

I don’t see why you couldn’t get a decent key out of that footage. The blue screen is fairly textured, but you don’t have any really tricky stuff like semitransparent areas or tiny details here, so should be able to pull a key from that, as you can be quite radical with the black and white cut-offs, even preblur the footage.