Short tutorial on how to create an audio waveform background in Adobe After Effects that reacts to your voice! Or any other audio you put in there.

Short tutorial on how to key out green screen footage using Keylight 1.2 in Adobe After Effects. Should work in any version of After Effects CS5, CS4, CS3 etc with KeyLight installed.

When I first heard about this kind of thing it was all blue screen and then more recently I heard about them using green screen instead. But why? Is green screen better or what?

What is it for?
Well Blue and Green screens are used to key out video. You shoot video in front of a blue or green screen so that you can cut out that colour from your video and have an invisible background which you can replace with anything you like. Making it seem like your subject was in the place of the background image all along!

What’s the difference?
One is green, one is blue. Read the rest of this entry »

I found this video on YouTube where this guy talks about chroma keying and using a green screen. He talks about how to do it professionally and also amateur, or “Guerrilla” as he likes to call it. I found this video quite useful and it gave me some ideas on how to improve the lighting for my current green screen work.

Hope it’s useful to you! :3