From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments

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Intro to keying: Primatte

Intro to keying: Primatte

- [Instructor] Now, let's talk about Primatte. Again, this is a third-party plugin. It does not come with After Effects. So, you have to buy this from redgiant.com. But let me show you why I use this. I use this with this shot here. This is actually the very last shot of the film where Cordea kind of like buckles down to fight Galhotten. The first thing I want to do here is actually create something called a garbage matte, because we have some extra stuff on the edges, you can see the edges of our green screen, and we don't want our keyer to have to worry about that, also she's very small in the frame, and like there's like these wrinkles and things like that on the edges, and we definitely don't want our keyer to have to wrestle with that stuff too. So I'm just going to select this, go to the pen tool, and I'm going to make sure RodoBezier is checked, that's um really the best way to create garbage mattes like this. I'm just going to click, and not drag, just click around, and, I…

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