light blending in bluescreen shot

[Andrew Kramer]

Walker Effects
Awesome set good price. I think.

[Chris Figat]

Assuming you’re shooting digital you might check out DV Matte Pro from dvGarage, great DV keying plug-in with built-in light wrap. I think there’s a new version coming soon.

https://www.dvgarage.com/prod/prod.php?prod=dvmatteae

chris

i’m not random i’m tangent oriented…

[Matt Larson]

You already have the plugin…..it’s called “Set Matte”. I picked this trick up here a while ago:

Key your footage in a seperate comp (you may want to drop in a background place holder for reference – be sure to switch it off though before you add this keyed comp to your main comp).

Drop that comp into a new Main Comp. Add the background layer. Move it below your keyed precomp. Duplicate your background layer and move it ABOVE your keyed precomp. Add “Effect> Channel> Set Matte” to your top background layer. Set “Take Matte from Layer” to your keyed precomp. Check “invert matte”. Add a fast blur effect to this layer (about 4 pixels, vertical). Duplicate this layer and delete the blur effect.

I’ve used this dozens of times since I learned it, Go Cow!

[Sam Moulton]

Thanks for your suggestions. Saved me a bunch of time browsing the web. And thanks for the tip using set matte. It just may do the trick.

[Arthur Vibert]

Get the book After Effects 6.5 Studio Techniques by Mark Christiansen. It has a great section on light wrap (without plug-ins, aside from what ships with AE) as well as TONS of great tools for compositing, rotoscoping, etc. It does for compositing techniques what the Meyers’ books do for Motion Graphics.

Arthur VIbert

[Michael Szalapski]

I’m pretty sure there’s a COW tutorial on this.

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