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Choosing the best color to key

Choosing the best color to key - After Effects Tutorial

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Choosing the best color to key

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- [Eran] Hey everyone, and welcome to After Effects weekly tips. My name is Eran Stern, and in this episode, I want to share a simple technique that will help you to pull better keys inside After Effects. To demonstrate this, I have this composition that was originally created by my talented friend Eyal B. You can check more of Eyal's work at eyalb.com. So here we have some layers waiting to be keyed and composited over this moving background. I want to concentrate on pulling the best green screen possible. So I'm going to pause the playback, and I'm going to start by selecting those two guys. I've already masked the unnecessary areas, and I'm going to zoom in so we can get a sense of what we're doing, as closer as possible, in this case 100%. So our starting point, as always, is to go to the Effect menu, and then under Keying, select the Keylight effect. And I'm going to take this eyedropper, and just click somewhere in order to pull a key. Now as you can see, this is probably not…

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