Adobe Green-Screen Workflow

Learn how to key green-screen footage in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, as well as third-party tools like the Red Giant Keying Suite.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Exercise files

1. Deciding Where to Key Your Footage

• When to key in Premiere Pro
• When to key in After Effects

2. Importing Footage to Key

• Importing into Adobe Premiere Pro with the Media Browser
• Correctly interpreting fields and frames
• Performing a test key from your camera’s card

3. Keying in Adobe Premiere Pro

• Stacking layers for keying
• Using the Ultra Keyer
• Refining the Ultra Keyer
• How to get the best key in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Creating previsualization

4. Keying in Adobe After Effects

• Importing projects from Premiere Pro
• Using Dynamic Link
• Using KEYLIGHT
• Refining KEYLIGHT
• Using masks with KEYLIGHT
• Enhancing a key with 3D lights
• Rescuing a bad key

5. Selected Third-Party Keyers

• When to use a third-party keyer
• Red Giant quick start
• The Light Wrap Fantastic

6. Processing Backdrops in Photoshop

• Defocusing backdrops in Photoshop
• Applying depth-of-field blur in Photoshop
• Designing custom blurs with the Photoshop Blur Gallery

7. Backdrop Techniques

• Extruding a still in 3D space to create a backdrop
• Using a panoramic photo as a virtual set
• Using a panoramic photo as a camera map
• Creating a panoramic photo with Photoshop

8. Exchanging Transparency Data

• Rendering with a straight alpha channel
• Creating flash video with transparency

Conclusion

• Next steps