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Keylight 101 - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CC 2022 Essential Training
Keylight 101
- [Instructor] The process of separating a subject from its background by filtering out a range of color is called chroma keying. Keylight is a bundled chroma key effect that is able to get great results easily. Let's take a look. We'll come over to this 02 composition and here I've got some footage. It's just me holding a remote in front of the TV with a green picture. So the TV itself obviously provides a really evenly lit green screen background. I'll select my layer and then come over here to Effect and under keying, we have Keylight down here. Let's double click Keylight to open it up in the effect controls window. And the first thing that we need to do is define the color that we want to extract. And we can do that with the side dropper here. I'll click anywhere in the green area of the footage to use as the color to key out. You'll notice that the green goes away. Let's take a closer look. If we come down…
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