From the course: Nuke Essential Training (2014)

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Primatte keyer setup

Primatte keyer setup

Primatte is a world class blue screen and green screen keyer. It's unique in that the way you talk to it is by sampling pixels in the image. It's particularly easy to use and gives great results. We'll start by adding a primat node. I'll select the read node, come up to the keyer tab. And select the Primatte node. Primatte hooks itself into the foreground input to the green screen and then we just hook up the BG input to our background. Now the first thing you want to try with Primatte is the auto-compute button right here. The auto-compute analyzes your green screen or blue screen backing and picks optimal settings. We'll click that, and we get a great key. I'll switch to the alpha channel, you can see my key. However, you're rarely going to get a green screen as pretty as this one. So, I'll click the Reset button to set Primatte back to the starting condition and I'll start building a key using the operations here. Primatte has the smart selection background colors, the first…

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