Advanced Chroma Keying In Fusion: A Complete Walkthrough

Chroma Keying Part 8 Finale: Combining techniques to tackle an advanced shot – a full walkthrough

In this Insight, we apply everything we have learned in this chroma-keying Insight series for one grand finale: an advanced-level keying shot that illustrates a complete professional workflow.

These techniques include:

An advanced approach is not set in stone

People often ask me to share my complete keying workflow as I use it in professional projects.

Here’s the dilemma: it can be different for every shot.

Some shots require endless fiddling around a few problematic edges; others have a terrible green spill or a new background that is so different from the set lighting that we need to do some relighting.

Occasionally, you’ll get lucky, and a shot will work with just a basic key, despill, and color correction.

However, in this series of Insights, we have explored a range of common techniques that can help in many situations.