![]() ![]() If you would like to tighten up the matte, you can do so by adjusting the Matte Refinement parameters. Just want to be sure that you know what this is and why I set it up like that. Sorry if you already know that and I’m over explaining. It also helps when there is motion blur in the shot or for flyaway semi-transparent hair. We know that black represents 100% transparent pixels and that white represents 100% opaque pixels … the gray is showing us semi transparent pixels where there is a soft edge on the matte, which helps when compositing the shot over an alternate background source. ![]() The halo that you see when viewing the Matte Status is intentional - what we see in this view are 3 shades : black, white and gray. ![]() You’re most welcome - I’m happy to help in whatever capacity that I can. You should be able to fix that by patching it with an animated mask shape, most easily achieved via Mocha Pro. Please note that the small white pixel cluster that sometimes appears near his underarm is actually in the original source shot, and is white in the shot, so you can’t remove that with this instance of the keyer. ![]() To remove the rigging, you need to use the integrated Mocha masking feature in Primatte Studio, or you could use the crop function - I used the integrated Outside Mask Crop function as it made the most sense for this particular shot. I’ve attached a zip file to this message that contains an After Effects project and a Primatte Studio preset. I’ve done this in After Effects but you can achieve the exact same result in Premiere Pro using the preset that I provided for BCC Primatte Studio. However, even with all that, I feel I’ve achieved a usable result with BCC Primatte Studio. Well that’s some pretty nasty footage - poor subject lighting, heavy compression and poor green screen setup. So, any suggestions or maybe even direct solutions to my problem is welcome if anybody dealt with situation like this before. no halo or visible greenscreen artifacts on the composite), yet Boris’ webinar tutorial on Primatte Studio (this one - Replay: Pulling the Perfect Key with Continuum Primatte Studio - YouTube) makes it seem like piece of cake supposedly on any, even problematic greenscreens. I’ve spent hours trying to solve this problem and watching tutorials and stuff, but still I can’t pull this problematic greenscreen off to a level of quality I want (i.e. It introduces its own set of problems and is not looking good on light backgrounds which are also present in some places in the video and still there are some grey artifacts present, especially under his arms. Which is kinda ok for “masters” where the lector’s figure is relatively small, but very obvious for the close ups, for which I finally decided to use the heavily tweaked Ultra Key’s result, which is not ideal either, cause to eliminate the halo I have cranked up the matte’s transparency, among other things, see the pic: So, after heavy tweaking I came to this result with Boris’ key: I have even tried Red Giant’s supposedly Hollywood quality keyer and it gives me even worse results than Boris. Paradoxically, the standard Ultra Key gives me much better result from the start than the supposedly much more superior and flexible Boris’ Primatte Studio, which gives me MUCH more halo before the matte tweaks. For all of my keying I routinely use Premiere Pro’s Ultra Key which almost always gives a good result from the get go (in Agressive), but not in this case - see the pic: ). So, the problem is that not only the greenscreen stage is unevenly lit and has different color parts in it (especially the part where his legs are on the floor, see this pic: ), but all his body has a distinct “halo” or edge, which I can not properly eliminate. The 15 sec sample of original 4k greenscreen footage I am working with is available to download here: Dropbox - problematic greenscreen sample.mp4 - Simplify your lifeīackground I use for close up is here: Dropbox - problematic greenscreen sample bg.png - Simplify your lifeĮven though the video source is 4k, the final project is 1080p. I have 4K footage shot on a not very good greenscreen stage and I’m supposed to use the lector in parts of the composite video as full figure in “master” shots and only his upper half in “close ups”, where the keying problems are much more obvious. I prefer to do all my keying directly in Premiere Pro (Windows) but if this situation can only be fixed in After Effects I am all ears too, although the best would be to do it properly in Premiere. This is the first time I came to such a problematic greenscreen source that I can’t key it properly to my (and my client’s) satisfaction, so I hope that some real pro(s) out there will help me with this or tell me what I am doing wrong or what should I do to fix it. ![]()
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