From the course: After Effects Compositing: 4 Color Keying

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Quickly and carefully sample for screen color in Keylight

Quickly and carefully sample for screen color in Keylight - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Compositing: 4 Color Keying

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Quickly and carefully sample for screen color in Keylight

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- Now I said before that Screen Color is the most important setting to get correct in Keylight and it's also the first setting that you create in Keylight. So to get this optimally correct, let's take a close look at how to make the rest of the keying process go more smoothly by nailing this one adjustment. To do this I'm going to recommend a special custom little setup and it just takes, I think, three steps to get there. The first step is to open up a Layer view and to grab that tab at the upper left and just drag it down so it's side-by-side with the Comp view. The next step is to make a little adjustment to that view. So we're going to be working initially in Status view, and I'm going to go ahead and Reset. We're going to start over with our Screen Color selections, so we'll go to Status view here. We don't want to see Status in both views. And by the way, if you're curious why this is red right here, that's just a result of the garbage mat that I have around there, you don't…

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