TIP Video Workshop Adobe Premiere Compositing Blue Screen

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TIP Video WorkshopAdobe PremiereCompositing/
Blue Screen

• Presented by
• Peter Vince
• Toledo High
• Language Arts/Spanish/Video Production

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How to Composite in Premiere 6.5
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Compositing in PremiereShooting Against Solid

• First, shoot a clip against a solid color back
  drop.
• You may want to create a bin labeled Blue Screen
  Clips and put all your compositing clips in
  that bin

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Compositing in PremierePlacement of Clips on
Tracks

• Place the clip or still you want to fill in for
  what you key out on Video Track Two.
• Put the clip that was shot against the blue wall
  on a higher numbered video track.
• For example, the new background video would be on
  Video Track Two and the blue screened video
  would be placed on Video Track Three.

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Compositing in PremiereSetting Transparency

• Select the blue screened clip and right click
  on it.
• You will see a context menu pop up. Go to Video
  Options and then on to Transparency.

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Compositing in PremiereChoosing a Key

• You will see the Transparency Settings window
  pop up.
• Choose your Key Type commonly you will choose
  the Chroma key.

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Compositing in PremiereChroma Key

• Place your cursor over the blued portion of the
  Color section of the Transparency Window.
• This will select the exact hue, based on the
  pixel selected, that will be keyed out.

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Compositing in PremiereFine Tuning Chroma

• Adjusting the Similarity slider will increase
  or decrease how much blue will be keyed out.

• You can adjust the other sliders to experiment
  on their effects for what gets keyed out.

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Compositing in PremiereViewing
TransparencyOptions

• You can choose to view the effects of your
  adjustments on the various sliders by selecting
  either the black/white, transparency, or
  sources view.

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Compositing in PremiereRendering

• Click ok on the Transparency Settings window.
• The last step is to render the composited
  clips.
• Go to the Timeline menu on the Premiere
  interface. Click on Render Work Area.