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Evaluate and adjust Key Cleaner results

Evaluate and adjust Key Cleaner results - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Compositing: 4 Color Keying

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Evaluate and adjust Key Cleaner results

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- Having seen some nice initial results with Key Cleaner, let's examine some of the trade-offs of relying heavily on any automated tool set before we move onto methods to help improve your matte without relying on automation as much as you do with Key Cleaner. Now this is a problematic matte and I've solved some of the problems with it by just raising the screen softness setting somewhat in Keylight under the screen matte controls. I'm going to take a snapshot of that and then reset screen softness to zero. You can see how chunky, chewy, this matte edge really is. Now I'll apply Key Cleaner and as before the edge radius setting is too high. We can see if we look at the alpha channel that things are getting a lot messier along this side of the foreground. And things are happening like this hole is getting filled in that we really don't want to be filled in. You also see some haloing around the phone. As before, I will lower that edge radius down to two or three, go with about two and a…

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