Green-Screen Magic

So my supervisor and I are pretty happy with ourselves after the results of yesterday's work. Neither of us has hardly any experience keying green-screen footage, and the footage we were working with was especially bad, since he also doesn't have much experience shooting green-screen. Anyway, we slaved over each little clip, spending sometimes up to 45 minutes trying to get rid of one little problem area. Somehow or other, we came out on the other side with one or two really solid techniques for achieving a decent key on what was otherwise a terrible shot.

I now have a lot more experience with After Effects, which is quite exciting. I did a whole lot of rotoscoping yesterday, to clean up some of the areas of the clips that just would not fix themselves through normal keying techniques. Today, I'll be putting the last touches on a clip that I didn't have time to finish yesterday. After that, probably not much will be going on till next week. I think I've been requested by some of the people downstairs, since they need some extra help doing some Photoshop work today, and we don't have much else going on with video for now.