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Blending a key with the background with Light Wrap by Red Giant

Blending a key with the background with Light Wrap by Red Giant

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Blending a key with the background with Light Wrap by Red Giant

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- Rich, we've done a key in After Effects and Premiere Pro. We've had some varying results, but overall, pretty good. The thing that drives me a little crazy when I look at key work that I do and that others do, except for at the very high level of Hollywood blockbuster sci-fi stuff, is that one of the hardest things to do is to sort of get the foreground subject to feel like they blend better with the background. Sure, you can easily kick out the green background or the blue screen background, if you need to. But it can be sometimes hard to make it feel like they're one instead of two separate elements. I know that we've been talking a little bit about this, about a way to do that, and it's with a special plug-in that helps you blend the foreground and the background. What's that all about? - It's called light wrapping. Essentially, what we're going to do is take the color and the luminosity values of the background, and try to better wrap that around our subject, so it feels a bit…

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