Elstree Film School - Green Screen Training Courses - Plugins (1 day)

Continuing on from our Introduction to Green Screen and Practical Green Screen training courses, the third and final day of our Green Screen training course delves deeply into the world of green screen plugins, and how to achieve the very best keying results for your green screen film footage. Via detailed examinations of the three most popular programs used for this purpose, Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere, we will take you through a series of practical exercises using the native Chroma key plugins available for these three popular programs. In addition, we examine several of the more sophisticated commercially available plugins that offer finer control of the Chroma key process. At the conclusion of this course you will be fully prepared to import, key and export your video to YouTube or Vimeo and to achieve excellent and professional results comparable to those achieved on more expensive systems and setups.

Also available in this series are our Introduction to Chromakey Green Screen Techniques and our Practical Chromakey Green Screen Setups training courses.

You may also attend all three of our Green Screen training courses within one discounted package in our Complete Chromakey Green Screen Training Course.

Duration: 1 day.

Location: Elstree Film School, 21st Century New Media Ltd, Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1JG. [Click here for a map]

Times: 10.00am to 4.30pm. For security reasons, further details are only provided upon booking.

Software Versions: All of our Adobe courses include lessons generic to both CS3 and CS4 versions of the Adobe suite: whichever version you use is covered in our courses. In addition, we also now preview the functionality of the new Adobe CS5 software. Our Apple training courses utilise the latest versions of Final Cut Studio HD (also known of as version 3 or FCS 2009).

Equipment: Our fully featured training room includes six top-of-the-range iMac computers configured to work in both Macintosh (OSX) and PC (Windows) modes, ensuring you the maximum familiarity with your chosen operating system.

Accommodation: Details of local accomodation can be found here.

Further assistance: Our FAQ help page contains the answers to many popular questions. Alternatively please call 0844 844 2428 to arrange to speak to our training manager.

COURSE CONTENT

Technical overview to using Green Screen plugins

• Square and non-square pixels
• Progressive Vs Interlaced
• Frame and Pixel aspect ratios
• NTSC and PAL/SECAM
• Interlacing and deinterlacing
• Denoise and deartifact
• To sharpen or not to sharpen
• Should one record at a higher resolution?
• Using lens adapters e.g. 35mm
• Smoothing your edges
• Masks and mattes: creating Garbage mattes / Junk Mattes

Preparing to use Chroma key

• Determining the exact details of your video files
• Ascertaining & setting up of your rendering requirements
• Updating graphics cards (OpenGL) and drivers
• Adobe/Apple updates and their significance

Using Adobe Premiere Pro for Green Screen keying

• Standard & special requirements to run the program
• How to setup your project in Premiere correctly
• Understanding the Premiere workspace
• Setting up your rendering for previews
• Importing your footage
• Applying Garbage Mattes
• Other pre-key effects you can apply
• Applying and using the ChromaKey filter
• Applying blur, antialiasing and other smoothing effects
• Exporting your video for YouTube and other formats

Using Adobe After Effects for Green Screen keying

• Standard & special requirements to run the program
• How to setup your project in After Effects correctly
• Understanding the After Effects workspace
• Setting up your rendering for previews
• Importing your footage
• Applying Garbage Mattes
• Other pre-key effects you can apply
• Applying and using the The Foundry KeyLight
• Applying other smoothing and enhancement effects
• Exporting your video for YouTube and other formats

Using Final Cut Pro for Green Screen keying

• Standard & special requirements to run the program
• How to setup your project in Final Cut Pro correctly
• Understanding the Final Cut Pro workspace
• Setting up your rendering for previews
• Importing your footage
• Applying Garbage Mattes
• Other pre-key effects you can apply
• Applying and using the Chromakey filter
• Applying other smoothing and enhancement effects
• Exporting your video for YouTube and other formats

Third-party plugins available for Green Screen keying

• Commercially available plugins
• Specific uses
• Licences and availability

Summary & Questions

Green Screen Plugins Training Courses
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