Download a free keyer plus learn about Michele’s favorite keying and compositing plug-ins on the market to give you great results!
Free: EFX Keying-Alpha Free Plug-in for After Effects
This is a download for 3 free keying and alpha matte plugins from the full EFX Keying/Alpha Plugin Suite. EFX Keying-Alpha plug-ins were created by kaczorefx.
This download contains:
- EFX Alpha Select – lets you select pixels based on their opacity value.
- EFX Despill – a simple despill filter that you tell which pixels you want it to despill and which you don’t want it to touch.
- EFX Luma Select – lets you select pixels based on their luminosity.
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Michele’s Favorite Keyers
Speaking of keyers, I have three favorites that you may be interested in checking out. There are tons of keyers on the market but not all of them give me everything that I want (and Jeremy and I did write the book on keying – See the image on the right!)
Red Giant Keying Suite – Includes Red Giant Primatte and Key Correct 
In this series, I’m going to give some in-depth information on three of my favorite keying tools that work with After Effects, Premiere Pro, and other tools. The first in the series covers Red Giant’s Keying Suite, which includes Primatte Keyer, Key Correct Pro, and Warp.
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Boris Continuum Unit: Key and Blend
Create seamless composites. Chromakey Studio – your one-stop shop. Quick clean-up, light wraps, and mattes. Includes 20 filters & 200+ presets. Cross-host license. The new version in BCC 10 has some great improvements and it’s easy to use and gives nice clean edges.
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Digital Film Tools zMatte
A full-featured keyer that is the result of our experience in creating hundreds of successful blue and green screen composites.
Using proprietary matte extraction techniques, zMatte quickly and simply creates mattes with minimal parameters even if you are dealing with fine hair detail, smoke, or reflections. It is easy to use, yet provides the needed tools when faced with good, bad, or ugly shots — tools such as multiple matte creations, automatic spill suppression, sophisticated matte and edge manipulation, and color correction.
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In Depth: Keying: Pre-Processing Greenscreen Footage for Keying
put up the second installment of my chroma keying series at Toolfarm last night. It’s about preparing your greenscreen footage for keying. If your greenscreen footage didn’t turn out as perfectly as you had hoped, I talk about some things that you can do to fix problems and not create new ones.
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