Overview
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Master compositing and masks using the native effects in Adobe Premiere Pro—with no third-party plugins.
Syllabus
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Getting Started
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Alpha channels: How color and transparency work in video
- Two types of alpha channels: Straight and premultiplied
- Keying and matting, what's the difference?
- Creating and modifying alpha channels
- Using garbage mattes
- Codecs that support the alpha channel
- Isolating footage with masks
- An overview of the automatic settings
- Matte generation and keying footage
- Removing color casts with spill suppression
- Improving the image with color correction
- Tips for better keying
- What's the difference between track mattes and masks?
- Creating a matte to fit your footage
- Adjusting the motion of the matte
- Tips for better matte keys
- Using any color to create a composite with Color Key
- Creating a composite with the Difference Matte key
- Using Luma Key to create a composite based on brightness
- Understanding the Non-Red Key effect
- Using the Alpha Adjust effect
- What are blending modes and how to use them effectively
- Understanding the Normal category
- Darken your footage using the Subtractive category
- Lighten your footage using the Additive category
- How to use the Complex category
- Create colors using the Difference category
- Transfer luma or chroma using the HSL category
- Understanding effects that use masks
- Creating masks using Bezier curves
- Understanding mask feather, opacity, and expansion
- When your mask needs to move: Tracking
- Tips for better tracking
- Goodbye
