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Removing a green screen background

Removing a green screen background - Premiere Pro Tutorial

From the course: Premiere Pro CS5 Essential Training

Removing a green screen background

Oftentimes if you want to put people in a different environment, let's say on a virtual set like this, we'll film them in front of a green screen, and then in Premiere as we talked about in the last movie we'll remove that green screen. Why is it green you asked? Because green's opposite is magenta, which is very strongly found in flesh tones. So, green is kind of like the opposite and so the thought is that we would remove the green and keep in what is there in our subject. Also, green tends to be a color that video cameras can handle pretty good. So, the process of removing green screen is referred to as keying. If we go to the Effects panel, open up Video Effects and scroll down, we'll actually see that there is a category called keying. If we open this up, there is a series of effects to help you key and you can just key out the green screen, but you can also key out blue, or red, or white, or black or whatever, there are several effects to help out here. And there is a new one…

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