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.

So, in this final Insight, I am working through an intermediate-to-advanced-level shot from the Blender Tears of Steel open movie, applying everything that could help the shot.

The benefit of digesting everything I demonstrate in this Insight is that you’ll see how all these techniques work together, plus a handful of extra tips and tricks to improve the results of each technique as we go along.

You can download the same footage and give it a try for yourself.

Key takeaways from this Insight

By the end of this Insight, you should understand how to:

Download the footage and follow along

In Part 1 of this series, I shared the download link for the footage I’m using so you can follow along and practice. After logging in, any active Mixing Light member has access to the download.

Related Mixing Light Insights

If you need more details on any of the techniques I used in this Insight, dive into the previous Insights in the series, which tackle specific problems and solutions:

Questions or comments? Leave a comment!

Did you try to work on this shot? How was your experience and outcome? Did you take a different path compared to my solution in some places? For now, this was the final tutorial in this series. Let us know if there is anything missing you want us to cover in the future.

– Bernd

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