Advise to a novice about working with chroma key: Premiere or After Effects?
by Alvin Pimental on Jul 23, 2012 at 12:26:55 pm
Hello! Im new to video edit / production, just starting to learn and have a question about workflow. Recorded some shots with my Canon Vixia FH-200 and a green backdrop for chroma keying over a virtual news set. That's my "learning project". Got a trial After Effects CS5.5 and Premiere Pro CS5.5.
I have played around with both program's chroma key settings and not satisfied with the results, I know is just a matter of finding the "correct" balance between the many configurations posibilities. But, instead of trying to learn how to better chroma key in premiere and how to better chroma key in After Effects, I would like to ask you guys, which one is better to remove the green background from my shots, Premiere or After Effects?
Re: Advise to a novice about working with chroma key: Premiere or After Effects? by Tom Daigon on Jul 23, 2012 at 1:17:49 pm
The best way to get a clean chroma key is to...
1. Make sure your lighting is consistent over the entire surface of the green screen. Avoid any bumps or wrinkles in the surface.
2. Move talent away from the screen to make sure reflected green light does not spill on the talent.
Any of the Chroma key effects in PP or AE will give you good results if you follow the above advice. My personal fav is Primatte, but thats an extra purchase.
Watch some free video tutorials to add to your knowledge.
That page includes tips for shooting footage for keying, as well as tips for using After Effects and various effects for keying.
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Re: Advise to a novice about working with chroma key: Premiere or After Effects? by Sathish Godala on Jul 24, 2012 at 11:58:23 am
[Tom Daigon]
"1. Make sure your lighting is consistent over the entire surface of the green screen. Avoid any bumps or wrinkles in the surface.
2. Move talent away from the screen to make sure reflected green light does not spill on the talent."
These are the most important and basic points to follow when shooting any chorma-key work irrespective of the tool you are going to use in post.
Follow them as much as you can, then both the tools can pull a great key almost with a single-click (Ultra Key from PPro, KeyLight from AE can achieve it for sure).
But, in the real world, specially for the starters/learners it might not be possible to achieve those 2 points due to any constraints of tight on budget/room space/time frame, etc.
Then, the best choice to pull (or at-least manage) a good key is AE. we can twicking the settings and apply multiple keys to multiple layers of same source masked according to the uniformity of chroma color in the BG.
Moral of the story: Start doing your chroma-key jobs inside AE (at-least, until they are produced properly)
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