5 Green Screen Keying Tips | ActionVFX Quick Tips

5 Green Screen Keying Tips | ActionVFX Quick Tips

February 7, 2022
Jonathan Fields

In this Quick Tips tutorial, we will give you 5 tips that will improve your green screen and chroma keying workflow.

Are you new to keying and green screening? Or maybe you've been doing it for a while but could use some tips to help make your life easier? In either case, you're in the right place! In this post, we'll cover five quick tips that will help make your VFX work faster and smoother. Let's get started!


This Quick Tips tutorial will cover:

  • How to combine multiple matte layers to get a more accurate key.
  • How to create core and edge key layers.
  • How to separate the alpha matte as its own layer.
  • How to properly use masks to patch up imperfect keys.
  • The best use of other keying methods with green screen keying.



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