How To Retain Green Screen Shadows and Fine Details | After Effects Tutorial

In this After Effects tutorial, we learn how to preserve dark-colored details like shadows and thin hair strands on a green screen! We will also cover how to properly composite shadows into your plate.

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00:00 Intro
00:30 Separating Your Chroma Keys: Main Key vs. Detail Key
01:40 What is Shadow?
02:10 Creating the Shadow Key
03:28 Compositing The Shadow
05:28 Keying Hair Detail
05:51 Applying the same method to key out dark hair
07:20 Compositing the hair key

Hair Green Screen Plate:
https://www.pexels.com/video/a-woman-...

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