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Key Cleaner in AE CC

Key Cleaner in AE CC - After Effects Tutorial

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

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Key Cleaner in AE CC

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- [Instructor] Keying is one of those skills where you will definitely get better with practice, but in addition to practice, After Effects includes a few plug-ins, namely the Advanced Spill Suppressor, and Key Cleaner, that can improve the quality of your key, after you've gotten rid of all the green and blue. That's what we're going to explore in the next couple of movies. If you have access to the CC versions of the exercise files, we've included some new keying examples for you to play with. If you'd like some more practice using Keylight, open up KS Clean & Spill pre-key. This is the brand-new keying example from After Effects Apprentice Fourth Edition. It's actually in lesson four, Creating Transparency, and this is a very challenging key. This woman has very wispy hair, and that is a particular trick to key out. We have at least made your life a little bit easier by including a garbage mask around her. If you are going to try keying her yourself, select the file, go to effects…

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