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Uber key with split soft key and split despill

Uber key with split soft key and split despill - Nuke Tutorial

From the course: VFX Keying: Master Course

Uber key with split soft key and split despill

- [Narrator] Keyers often fail to key all parts of the target equally well, so in those situations, it's necessary to pull two or more keys and merge them together. The same thing can happen with spill suppression, where just one part of the target has problems. So again, two or more despill operations may be needed. Here we see how to join those multiple efforts together into a single uberkey, and a unified, despilled image. So let's cruise in here and start by taking a look at our split soft key. Here at the main key, we switch to the alpha channel, we can see that we've got some noise out here, and of course we have our transparency problems here, but the real thing that we want is some better hair detail. We can see here that the hair detail has frankly been clobbered by our denoise routine. The problem is that light bits of hair are down literally in the noise level, so the denoise or degrain routine can remove the fine hair details, but having it denoised or degrained is…

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