From the course: After Effects Guru: Keying with Keylight
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Screen Color - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Guru: Keying with Keylight
Screen Color
- Now we get into the actual process of keying. In this title, I will be using only green screen as it is by far the most popular color in video. However, if you're using a different color, go ahead and follow the instructions anyway but customize them to your color instead. When selecting which color will serve to pull the key, the screen color is by far the most important step. Here is where you tell the effect which color it needs to make invisible. Selecting this color will make a matte and despill the foreground. In many cases if the shoot went right, this is all you need to do. Let's try it. Let's go ahead and open composition two-point-one screen color. In here, you're going to see that we have two movies in the composition. We make this a little bit wider so you can read it. It's green screen one and green screen two. Let's go ahead and add Keylight to green screen one. For that we go to the effect panel. Effect: Keying: Keylight. And we are on version one-point-two. As soon…
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