Video Green Screen Workflows

Learn how to shoot, edit, and process green screen video.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the 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 in Adobe Premiere Pro
• Using the Ultra Keyer
• Refining the Ultra Keyer with mask generation
• Cleaning up a mask in Ultra Keyer
• Final green-screen colorgrading to match
• Creating green-screen previsualization
• Sending a Premiere Pro green-screen sequence to After Effects

4. Keying in Adobe After Effects

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

5. Processing Backdrops in Photoshop

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

6. Backdrop Techniques

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

7. Exchanging Transparency Data

• Rendering a movie with a straight alpha channel
• Rendering a track matte and fill movie

Conclusion

• Next steps