After Effects Guru: Keying with Keylight
1h 3mIntermediate2016-10-11
Authors
Luisa Winters
Certified Instructor for Adobe and Apple
Course details
Keylight is a powerful keyer turned After Effects plugin. It was developed for use in features films and is now available with every copy of After Effects. In this course, Luisa Winters helps you understand what keying is, how Keylight works, and how to get the best green-screen footage from your shoot while in production. Then she demonstrates basic keying and techniques for refining mattes, using masks, and correcting color. Use these tips to create your own amazing composites in After Effects. It all starts with a great key!
Learning objectives
Shooting for the key
Basic keying
Refining the matte
Masking a key
Correcting color
Learning objectives
Shooting for the key
Basic keying
Refining the matte
Masking a key
Correcting color
Skills covered
Motion GraphicsAfter EffectsRenderingMotion Graphics and VFXVisualization and Real-TimeLimited SeriesAdobeAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
Keying Workflow
- What is keying
- Shooting tips
Basic Keying
- Screen Color
- Status view
- Screen Gain and Screen Balance
- Despilling
- Screen Pre-blur
Screen Matte
- Clip Black and Clip White
- Clip Rollback
- Screen Shrink Grow, Screen Softness
- Screen Despot
Masks
- Inside Mask
- Outside Mask
- Replacing color
Color Correction
- Using color correction
- Color suppression and balancing
- Edge Color Correction
Conclusion
- What's next