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Premiere Pro Guru: Compositing and Masks

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Overview

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Master compositing and masks using the native effects in Adobe Premiere Pro—with no third-party plugins.

Syllabus

Getting Started
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. What Are Alpha Channels?
  • Alpha channels: How color and transparency work in video
  • Two types of alpha channels: Straight and premultiplied
  • Keying and matting, what's the difference?
  • Creating and modifying alpha channels
  • Using garbage mattes
  • Codecs that support the alpha channel
2. Using Ultra Key to Key Green and Blue Screen Footage
  • Isolating footage with masks
  • An overview of the automatic settings
  • Matte generation and keying footage
  • Removing color casts with spill suppression
  • Improving the image with color correction
  • Tips for better keying
3. Using the Track Matte Key to Affect a Moving Piece of Video
  • What's the difference between track mattes and masks?
  • Creating a matte to fit your footage
  • Adjusting the motion of the matte
  • Tips for better matte keys
4. Exploring Other Keying Effects
  • Using any color to create a composite with Color Key
  • Creating a composite with the Difference Matte key
  • Using Luma Key to create a composite based on brightness
  • Understanding the Non-Red Key effect
  • Using the Alpha Adjust effect
5. Adjusting Blending Modes to Change the Character of Your Footage
  • What are blending modes and how to use them effectively
  • Understanding the Normal category
  • Darken your footage using the Subtractive category
  • Lighten your footage using the Additive category
  • How to use the Complex category
  • Create colors using the Difference category
  • Transfer luma or chroma using the HSL category
6. Using Masks to Affect a Portion of Your Footage
  • Understanding effects that use masks
  • Creating masks using Bezier curves
  • Understanding mask feather, opacity, and expansion
  • When your mask needs to move: Tracking
  • Tips for better tracking
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Luisa Winters

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