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Understand Primatte as a Keylight alternative

Understand Primatte as a Keylight alternative - After Effects Tutorial

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Understand Primatte as a Keylight alternative

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- If you're considering working more with Red Giant's Primatte Keyer, it will help to understand specifically what makes it fundamentally different from Keylight. And even if you're sticking with Keylight, it'll help your understanding of that effect to learn more about Primatte. As you know, Keylight relies entirely on a single screen color and that screen color needs to be a saturated digital primary. So it really needs to be saturated green or blue. In theory, red works as well, but in the real world, it's going to be green or blue. If the green gets too light or too dark, Keylight has trouble with it, and if you're starting with an alternate color, like white or purple, it's probably not going to work at all. We'll take a look at that in a moment. Before we get practical with Primatte, I want to illustrate the difference, and I'll use just a regular color picker to do this. So if we look at the colors digitally, Keylight's model is to have a column around one of the primaries and…

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