From the course: Compositing a Cell Phone in After Effects
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Key the screen - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Compositing a Cell Phone in After Effects
Key the screen
- [Voiceover] Now we need to bring back our finger swipes and taps, and because we planned ahead and had a blue screen displayed on the phone, this will be a simple task of keying out the blue. So we're going to use Keylight, a powerful plugin used for keying, and that's all bundled within After Effects. So what I'm going to do is just move our Phone Footage above the insert, and then we can see the blue screen revealed. I'm going to solo the layer, and in the Effects and Presets, you can just type in Keylight, and it should show up. What would be an in with our Layer Selected, Effects, Keying. Keylight 1.2. So if this is the first time you've used Keylight, do not worry. This is pretty straight-forward workflow. There's a few key areas that you just need to use to get a pretty decent result. So, the first thing to do is to select your Screen Color, and just choose the Eye Dropper and we'll click somewhere on the footage in the blue area. I'm going to click around here. And let's zoom…
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