Grant Swanson
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Hi Blahtor,
It’s possible to take multiple passes on a shot like this. If I were you, I would try to move as little as possible during the shot, that way you can roto out the shadow areas, so you can save yourself some work.
You can also create an “inverse–junk matte” very tightly around the inside of your body, and then key out the light and dark green separately. Something like that is probably too dark for a keyer like Keylight, so you’d need to use a luma–keyer like Extract.
Hope this helps!
Grant Swanson
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At the bottom of the composition panel there is a switch (Fast Render Previews) that is probably set to Adaptive Resolution or Off. Change it to wireframe.
Grant Swanson
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I use Camtasia Studio, but that’s for Windows only. For Mac I understand that Ambrosia Snapz Pro is pretty good.
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Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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Well Color Finesse is bundled with After Effects and has quite a few professional features. Why spend more money when AE has this for free?
Otherwise there’s Colorista and Magic Bullet looks both by Red Giant Software.
And of course there’s not a whole lot you can do with one of those packages that you can’t do using just Curves, Levels, and Hue/Saturation.
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I would assume they were shot on green-screen, and then the color correction was applied to that. It looks fairly basic; try just adding a curves adjustment and bring the gamma way down, especially at the lower end.
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Go into the light settings and change the light color to a neutral color, like white.
Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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Check out this tutorial:
It doesn’t use the text tool, but it should get you on the right track.
Grant Swanson
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Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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It’s unlikely that you’ll get a great key out of this. Here are some suggestions:
Use garbage mattes, this could turn into roto work where the shirt and other blurry areas just blend right into the background.
Increase contrast.
Apply a median filter at about a setting of 1 (be careful with this, you’ll lose edge detail, although it’s pretty vague to begin with).
Pull the key.
Use the key as a track matte for the source footage.
Grant Swanson
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Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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Artbeats has an infinite amount of footage that would work for you, not to mention you can always change the color of it in AE if you like the texture/design. Highly recommended.
Grant Swanson
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Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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I made a post about this on my blog that could possibly be along the lines of what you’re looking for… Read it here:
Grant Swanson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Video Apex – Minneapolis, MN
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