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 Training Courses
Date	Days	Total (Excl VAT)
March 2012
30/3/12	1	250
June 2012
8/6/12	1	250

Schedule your own Green Screen Plugins training course
Please tell us where and when YOU would like to attend this course. If we are able to schedule the course we will contact you.
Course	Please Select Access 2003 Advanced Access 2003 Expert Access 2003 Intermediate Access 2003 Intro Access 2007 Advanced Access 2007 Complete Access 2007 Essential Access 2007 Expert Access 2007 Intermediate Access 2007 Intro Access 2010 Advanced Access 2010 Complete Access 2010 Essential Access 2010 Expert Access 2010 Intermediate Access 2010 Intro Acrobat Adobe Air Adobe Flex Advanced CSS After Effects Alternatives: Graphics Alternatives: Publishing Alternatives: Web Design Animation Workshop Apple Motion Business Startup Business Vision Coaching Comedy Scriptwriting Complete Final Cut Pro CSS Layout Digital Video Cameras Dreamweaver DVD Studio Pro Essential Final Cut Pro Excel 2003 Advanced Excel 2003 Intermediate Excel 2003 Intro Excel 2007 Advanced Excel 2007 Complete Excel 2007 Essential Excel 2007 Expert Excel 2007 Intermediate Excel 2007 Intro Excel 2010 Advanced Excel 2010 Complete Excel 2010 Essential Excel 2010 Expert Excel 2010 Intermediate Excel 2010 Intro Film and TV Industry Intro Film and TV Scriptwriting 1 day Film and TV Scriptwriting Intro Film Making Fundamentals Final Cut Express Final Cut Pro Intro Final Cut Studio Fireworks Flash ActionScript Flash Advanced Flash Catalyst Flash Complete Flash Intro Flash Media Flash Video Google Adwords Google Adwords Advanced Green Screen Complete Green Screen Intro Green Screen Plugins Green Screen Practical HTML Emails HTML Intro Illustrator Advanced Illustrator Complete Illustrator Intro iMovie InDesign Complete Internet Marketing iPhone Apps JavaScript Open Office Outlook 2000 Advanced Outlook 2000 Intro Outlook 2003 Advanced Outlook 2003 Intermediate Outlook 2003 Intro Outlook 2007 Advanced Outlook 2007 Complete Outlook 2007 Essential Outlook 2007 Intermediate Outlook 2007 Intro Outlook 2010 Advanced Outlook 2010 Complete Outlook 2010 Essential Outlook 2010 Intermediate Outlook 2010 Intro PC Networking PC Repair and Maintenance Photography Photography Intro Photoshop Advanced Photoshop Complete Photoshop Intro Photoshop Web Podcasting PowerPoint 2000 Advanced PowerPoint 2000 Intro PowerPoint 2003 Advanced PowerPoint 2003 Intro PowerPoint 2007 Advanced PowerPoint 2007 Complete PowerPoint 2007 Intro PowerPoint 2010 Advanced PowerPoint 2010 Complete PowerPoint 2010 Intro Premiere Pro Publisher 2000 Intro Publisher 2002 Intro Publisher 2003 Intro Publisher 2007 Intro Publisher 2010 Intro QuickBooks Response Forms SEO Techniques Shopping Carts Social Media Twitter Viral Video Web 2.0 Intro Web Business Web Database Techniques Web Effects Web Hosting Web Project Management Web Video Techniques Website Accessibility Word 2000 Intermediate Word 2000 Intro Word 2003 Advanced Word 2003 Intermediate Word 2003 Intro Word 2007 Advanced Word 2007 Complete Word 2007 Essential Word 2007 Intermediate Word 2007 Intro Word 2010 Advanced Word 2010 Complete Word 2010 Essential Word 2010 Intermediate Word 2010 Intro WordPress Advanced WordPress Complete WordPress Intro WordPress Theme Design  Enter a custom course
Month	March 2012 April 2012 May 2012 June 2012
Time	Please Select Weekday (Mon-Fri) Weekend Saturday only Sunday only Evening
Location	Elstree Studios At your location
First Name *
Last Name *
Telephone Number *
Email Address *
If you cannot easily read the two words above, click on the icon that has two arrows chasing each other and new words will be displayed for you.