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LinkedIn Learning

Video Green Screen Workflows

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

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

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Richard Harrington

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