From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Compositing and Masks (2015)
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Matte generation and keying footage - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Compositing and Masks (2015)
Matte generation and keying footage
- So, we have our footage, and we have chosen the green color that worked the best using the default settings. Now, we change the setting to custom, and we will start the matte generation process from scratch. Transparency here is transparency of the source when over a background. No need to change it now. Highlight works by increasing or decreasing the opacity of the brighter pixels. I will change this value to zero. Shadow does the same, but with the darker pixels. I will also change this value to zero. Tolerance refers to how many different shades of the same color green we will key out, so the higher this value, the more shades of green we're choosing. In this case, we are already choosing enough shades of the green, so this has no effect on our matte. Pedestal will adjust the gain for the selected shade of green, and because we still have some of the highlights to clean up, changing this value makes a difference. Let's put it at around 17. Now that we have generated a pretty good…
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