Premiere Pro Guru: Compositing and Masks

Learn how to use compositing and masks in Adobe Premiere Pro to enhance your editing workflow.

Getting Started

• Welcome
• Understanding the importance of video compositing in modern productions
• Setting up your workspace for optimal compositing efficiency
• Using the exercise files

1. What Are Alpha Channels?

• Alpha channels: How color and transparency work in video
• Two types of alpha channels: Straight and premultiplied
• Keying and matting, what’s the difference?
• Creating and modifying alpha channels
• Using garbage mattes
• Codecs that support the alpha channel

2. Using Ultra Key to Key Green and Blue Screen Footage

• Isolating footage with masks
• An overview of the automatic settings
• Matte generation and keying footage
• Removing color casts with spill suppression
• Color matching for realistic composites
• Tips for better keying
• Using AI for seamless results

3. Dynamic Track Matte Compositing

• Track matte effects: Unleashing creative possibilities
• Track matte transitions and innovative scene blending
• Animated track mattes: Adding life and depth to compositions
• Combining track mattes with effects for stunning visuals

4. Exploring Other Keying Effects

• Using any color to create a composite with the Color Key
• Creating a composite with the Difference Matte Key
• Using the Luma Key to create a composite based on brightness
• Understanding the Non-Red Key effect
• Using the Alpha Adjust effect

5. Adjusting Blending Modes to Change the Character of Your Footage

• Exploring blending modes and their artistic applications
• Understanding the Normal category
• Darken your footage using the Subtractive category
• Lighten your footage using the Additive category
• How to use the Complex category
• Create colors using the Difference category
• Transfer luma or chroma using the HSL category

6. Using Masks to Affect a Portion of Your Footage

• Understanding effects that use masks
• Mastering Bezier Masks: Precise control for complex shapes
• Understanding mask feather, opacity, and expansion
• When your mask needs to move: Tracking
• Efficiently isolating objects in challenging scenes

Conclusion

• Recap
• Next steps