Adobe After Effects Basics
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Why After Effects?
Adobe After Effects is also a video editing program used to manipulate and edit videos. Adobe After Effects is a specialized piece of software that focuses on adding special effects to individual scenes. Take a skim look at this video |
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First Task - Green Screening.
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For this task we are going to add a funny background to the back of hisvideo to further embarrass him.
Tasks. 1.) Open the video on your right of Mr Sutherland in front of a green screen by clicking on the YouTube logo 2.) Download the video by copying the URL link and pasting it into this website. turboscribe.ai/downloader/youtube/mp4 
5.) Drag the video that you uploaded into the left side, down below into the time line area
(Hint Alt + Mouse Wheel to zoom in and out of footage). 6.) Download an appropriate colourful video from YouTube the same way as before and add that clip to After Effects using the same process but underneath the green screen one. (I used a picture). |
3.) Open up Adobe After Effects 4.) Drag the video from your downloads into the circled area below 
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7.) Click Effects & Presets on the right
8.) Navigate to "Keylight (1.2)" Under Keying or simply type in Keylight. 9.) Drag the Keylight onto the green screen footage. |
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Configuring the Green Screen
If you have done steps 1-8 correctly you should have this on your screen. We are now going to configure this so that we get rid of the Green. 1.) Select the Water Drop tool right Next to screen colour 
2.) Select a medium green from the footage
Problem - Wrinkles in the sheet
The best case scenario when filming with green screen is to have a solid screen of color. However we don't have expensive lighting and good quality green screens so we are going to have to edit this out. 
4.) Ensure that the character is entirely White and that the background is nearly entirely Black
5.) Change the View to Final Result 
6.) Hit "Space Bar" to preview your video
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Getting rid of the wrinkles
1.) Change the view "Final Result" to "Combined Matte"
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