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Compositing with color adjustments

Compositing with color adjustments - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects CS5 Essential Training

Compositing with color adjustments

As we've talked about earlier in this training series compositing is the process of taking multiple bits of footage and putting them together as if they belong together. So, again, we have this example we've seen already with this moving scenery in the background. There is just someone hanging the camera outside the car in a family trip and then we had the subway scene and then a few other elements with this guy sitting here. And they kind of look like they belong together, but as we saw before, earlier in this training series, giving them the same color correction will make them seem like they belong in the same composite a little bit more. Let's look at another example. Earlier we keyed this footage of the host of this fictional podcast in front of this virtual set. The virtual set colors are very contrast-y. They're very strong and this guy's color is a little bit washed out. So, let's talk about how we would remedy that. For this background layer, the first thing I want to do is…

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