[Victor Stan]

Thank you so much! No, the clouds are not going to be the final background, it was the first thing I found in my library to test the key. So far I do not know what I will be compositing this footage with, the job I got is for keying and minor colour/exposure correction (no grading or luts), it’s a personal art project so the client has no budget to do more so I’m guessing they will do those parts on their own. Good tip about the softening, yes they are quite harsh at the moment, wonder if pre-blur will help me out or just blur the screen matte edges. I could also try playing with the mask feathering and expansion some more.

As an off-topic question, can you recommend me some good and complete AE tutorial or learning course? Thank you!

[Victor Stan]

Hi Kalle, thank you for your kind reply and suggestions.

I struggled a bit, but I think I narrowed it down. So I took the footage, duplicated it 4 times, and made a mask for each of the clips so I’m left with each of the greenscreens + a small one for the steering wheel part. I used Keylight on all, used the inverted masks from above as the inner mask for each and set the output of Keylight to Combined Matte. Then set the blending mode to all 4 layers to Difference.

I pre-composed all 4 clips into a single one which I used as the Inverted Luma Matte for the original footage. I did some more masking on the original footage to deal with un-keyed areas of the footage or ones that were never covered by the actos so to help me key the greenscreen better.

So far I have only worked on the easier shot as you can see below. It can use a bit of finessing of course, there is some spill present, but wanted to see if this workflow is going to work or not in the first place. I’m afraid for the other 2 shots I will have to rotoscope the 2 character’s glasses, will have to learn how to do that first, never did rotoscoping, only some basic mask animation.

What do you think of the final result, where should I focus my attention next? Any tips to make it better?