From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 12 Tracking and Keying

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Basic keying

Basic keying - After Effects Tutorial

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Basic keying

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- [Narrator] In the previous chapter, we stabilized this footage which was shot on a green screen stage. The next thing we need to do is key out this green so that we can see our new background behind it. The process of keying is picking a color, such as this green background, making it transparent. But making sure that the action we want to keep, these actors, remain opaque. And preferably with a nice anti-aliased or feathered edge at the boundary between the two. Now if you did not follow along in the previous chapter, but you do have access to the exercise files. Go into the Comps folder and open up 05-Keying*starter3. This is the same shot, already stabilized for you, and you can go ahead and key with that. In my case, I'm going to continue with a shot that I've already been tracking. I'm going to go back early in this shot where I have a nice isolation on this actor in the screen and apply Keylight. I can find it in the Effects menu underneath Keying. You can also search for…

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