From the course: After Effects Compositing: 4 Color Keying

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Use only these two views in Keylight

Use only these two views in Keylight - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Compositing: 4 Color Keying

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Use only these two views in Keylight

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- Keylight has a number of options under the view menu that you don't really need and one in particular that you must actively avoid. Here's the lowdown on why you generally only see me work in either status or intermediate result view. Let's actually start with the view that you must avoid. So here in the intermediate result I have my initial key. And if I play it back just take note of how the foreground figure works. Now there's some noise going on in the background and that is actually an area where there's some translucency in the frame so the noise you're seeing there is actually just the result of those being semi-opaque pixels because they're a weird color. However if I switch to final result you're going to see the same graininess on his shirt. Check this out. So all of a sudden his shirt which is gray is intensely grainy. This happens very constantly with final result view and for this reason alone I would discourage you from using it. Not to mention the fact that the main…

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