From the course: After Effects Compositing: 4 Color Keying

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Key a green screen simply with Keylight

Key a green screen simply with Keylight - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Compositing: 4 Color Keying

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Key a green screen simply with Keylight

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- Let's get started keying with Keylight. Keylight is the award winning color keyer from the Foundry that was licensed by Adobe and is included with every copy of After Effects. You've no doubt seen many thousands of shots in movies and television that were created with the help of Keylight including a few that I myself created using the tool set and work flow I'll show you in this course. In this lesson, I'll give a basic overview of the essential steps to get a good initial result with Keylight before we break each of them down and take them to completion. So before you even get started, it's important to note that you should always be working in full resolution when you're evaluating a key. Now here you can see that my resolution is actually at half, but it's set to auto. So in fact, if I were to zoom in, to look at detail, with the auto setting it's going to go to full as soon as I go to 100 percent or beyond. That's fine, you can also just change it to full if you want. For the…

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