Premiere/ After Effects greenscreen workflow
by Els Ledar
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Oct 30, 2009 at 4:34:13 pm
Hi,
I have an edited interview with cross dissolves in a sequence within Premiere. The interview was shot on a green screen. I’m trying to key this out, but Premiere doesn’t do a good job. So I’m going to use After Effects and Keylight. What is the optimal workflow to do this?
Right now, I take this completed sequence within premiere and use Adobe Dynamic Link to create a new After Effects composition, but this creates many tracks within the comp in After Effects, where I have to key each clip individually. The other option I tired was to highlight all the clips in the Premiere sequence and right click using “replace with after effects composition”. Both create many tracks in the After Effects timeline. Also, when I go back to Premiere, all the cross dissolves are now gone. Should I nest a sequence in a sequence and then export to After Effects? Also, should I add the background within After Effects or Premiere? Thanks?
Re: Premiere/ After Effects greenscreen workflow by Danny Winn on Oct 31, 2009 at 9:24:15 pm
Hey Els,
I've never had real success with the Dynamic Link (not to say it doesnt work) but what I do works great.
Open After Effects and then go to file and select "Import Premiere Pro Project".
It will take a few minutes to load.
Then, this is important, find the one file within all the files you can see called "Sequence 1" and double click that one file. DO NOT DRAG ALL THE FILES INTO THE NEW COMP BIN.
Once all the files load into the timeline you can use keylight and set your best settings for keying then copy and paste that setting to all the other clips.
Once finished you can render out from After Effects.
Sometimes some transitions do not transfer over to After Effects, I don't know why but AE does have simple dissolves so you may have to add them again in AE.
The Cow has a great Tutorial for green screening with Keylight by Andrew Kramer, I would watch that if you're new at Keylight.
