chorma keying hair
by tom wielgat
on
Oct 4, 2008 at 2:36:34 pm
Hi
What is the best way to color key a person the has a lot of hair?
After i color key the green away, i use the matt tool but it cuts all the hair off to the point of were it look smooth all the way down.
Is there a way to leave the strains of hairs in place?
Re: chorma keying hair by Dave LaRonde on Oct 4, 2008 at 2:46:32 pm
What kind of footage is it DV? HDV? If yes, you've got your work cut out for you.
It'll help to simply do a search of this forum in the COW for the terms green screen, blue screen, chroma key, etc. The topic has been covered extensively.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: chorma keying hair by Darby Edelen on Oct 5, 2008 at 6:10:58 am
I'll tell you that you should do a key for the hair alone, use a mask to limit the layer to the hair area and then key to preserve the hair as best you can, lay this back over your footage keyed for the body of the person (perhaps with a mask to eliminate most of the hair so you don't get any potential build-up of some areas of the hair) and you should have an easier time of it.
