I’ll track “translation, scale and rotation” only. Mocha excels at tracking difficult areas like this out-of-focus tree in the background. To launch it, select a layer and go to Animation > Track in Mocha AE). Note: if you don’t have Mocha Pro, a light version of Mocha is included free with Adobe After Effects Creative Cloud. You will need to launch Mocha Pro using the large Mocha button. Navigate to Mocha Pro in your Effects Panel and drag and drop that onto your sky background layer. You’ll also want to change your BG color to get rid of some of that darkness that we had. I’ll use a Mocha roto-mask to keep this detail. I’m not going to worry too much about the softer detail toward the bottom of the shot or the sunlight, because I actually want to keep this lens flare in the middle of the sky. In just a few clicks, you’ll have a pretty robust key. You can add an edge correction and a little softness to the edge of your matte by using “hybrid enable.” Use the Final Matte dropdown view to make sure that your composite matte looks good. Use “clean foreground” to clean up the edge of the horse so that you don’t lose your light wrapping. You can also use clean backgrounds for pulling more color into your key.Įven though we have uneven color values in the sky, you can still pull a decent key from the color range. You can either use a point to select or you can use a rectangle to grab a larger area. What I like about Primatte Studio is that it’s very visual. Now we’ll activate our heads-up display by clicking the “HUD” button. If you don’t have a license for Boris Continuum plug-ins, feel free to try a different keyer or download a trial here. The first thing to do is name this “original plate,” then duplicate this plate to pull a key.Īpply “Primatte Studio” from the effects menu and drag and drop it right onto your timeline. We’ll also use a “3D offset” technique to push our replacement sky back into Z space. Slow Motion, Girl in Meadow Feeding and Petting Horse by Airstockĭon’t worry about this sky being a static file because we’re going to use planar motion tracking to match the background and follow the camera movement.

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