From the course: After Effects Compositing: 2 Matching Foreground to Background

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Spot grain mismatches and match grain

Spot grain mismatches and match grain - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Compositing: 2 Matching Foreground to Background

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Spot grain mismatches and match grain

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Suppose you have a foreground and background really well matched for color and light, and the shot just doesn't quite look right. Well if your source includes the addition of any still or computer generated images to a live action plate, grain may be your culprit. But rather than show you how to remove grain, let me demonstrate how adding and matching it will help you sell the shot. So, grain may not be instantly apparent in this scene. But, it's pretty easy to expose it by raising exposure. I can flash the grain and particularly if I look at a single channel. Now I can see all of this extra motion in areas of the scene that you'd expect to be static. And now the cube looks really, way too static. Believe it or not, your eye picks up on this, even when we don't expose it so much. Not only that. You can't ever guarantee that your work isn't going to end up on a screen that's brighter than you intended. I'm going to apply the Match Grain effect directly to the cube layer. Now here's a…

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