How To Easily Key Hair Details With This Simple Trick | ActionVFX Quick Tips

[@ActionVFXofficial]

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[@factarchive9576]

additive keying is so satisfying.

[@ONEAFRICA-m5b]

This is the best keying tutorial ive ever seen. Bring back Denasa 😭

[@flipnap2112]

great tutorial. Once I started REALLY digging into rotoscoping and realized that they do it in pieces, not trying to track the whole object at once, it dawned on me thats the method to use for pulling clean mattes.. pulling color from different pieces and using other methods - combining in steps, other than the traditional "key" filters all at once. only thing in this tut that stuck out to me (which wasnt the purpose of this tut, nor your fault) is the green screen is right behind her and using that as a track for the mountains picked up a lot of jitter.. always wondered the best way to deal with that kind of parallax issue, other than just eyeballing a hand key. thanks for the tut!!

[@ActionVFXofficial]

You're welcome!

[@CinecomCrew]

This trick is genius! I'll definitely link to this video the next time we're on a keying again. Thanks!! :-)

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Thank you! Happy to help! In case you are also looking to key out shadow or darker colored hair, we made another keying tutorial just for that! :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/immphJh4h91piMU

[@danielbrothers9547]

can you please make a separate video on black hair keying? Im struggling

[@maxmobilesolutions]

I need this my locks always have noise around them as the move when I’m talking.

[@HitfilmUniversity]

Holy hell, how have I never encountered this technique before!? That's a good one!

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Glad we could show it!

[@gvuprise1465]

ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@Agent_Koba]

The camera is not static, but the background is static. This is marriage.

[@TheBestHeadEver]

I absolutely love this technique - thank you for sharing !!

[@ActionVFXofficial]

You are so welcome!

[@skyglidestudios3443]

Amazing. Thank you so much

[@hkh_vfx]

I have a daughter with very fine blonde hair that I plan to stick in front of a green screen soon. You may have made my life easier with this technique. Eager to give it a try.

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Love to hear the words "made my life easier"! It's why we do these tutorials. :)

[@HitfilmSensei]

What a fantastic tutorial... Thanks!

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Very welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@GarethOwenFilmGOwen]

Am sure we can do this it in Hitfilm right?

[@HitfilmSensei]

@@GarethOwenFilmGOwen Absolutely!

[@adityayardi7696]

It's a great trick.

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Thanks!

[@rosariosiete]

Hi, when I try to export, either with alpha background or with a video background, the video is exported with black background. Please i need help

[@MusicandMonsters]

Thank you for showing this.

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Happy to help!

[@kostasfassoulas6915]

Awesome!! Thank you!

[@ActionVFXofficial]

You bet!

[@pedrochaves7449]

OMG, great tutorial, I loved it!

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Thank you for watching!

[@AM1media]

Excellent tutorial! Much appreciated.

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Thanks for watching!

[@JJJBurton]

I must be missing something because when I place my hair key comp over my main key and set the blend mode to Add, it doesn't remove darker pixels of the hair key comp.

[@KasperWerther]

I have the same problem!

[@adeshwalke]

Thanks you for this tutorial, just only i can not find the Green screen footage on that link ! , please check this if possible

[@ActionVFXofficial]

This footage was a limited time download from Red Giant! It is no longer available.

[@justinsandmann3116]

Genius! Thank you

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Glad it helped!

[@AaliDGr8]

but what if background is not greenscreen and has normal busy footage BG ??

[@LovelyLavenderx]

I can’t afford after effects I wish there was a way you could achieve this on an iPhone! One app I have is alight motion which is similar to after effects but doesn’t have key light preset.

[@kostasfassoulas6915]

This doesn't seem to work with black hair! Do I have to use other blending mode or am I doing something wrong?!

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Hello! For black hair, it is actually much simpler, as you only have to worry of two colors in your plate: black (hair) and green (screen). So what you can do is just skip the subtraction method, and turn your hair plate into greyscale color using Tint. Then turn the plate into Multiply instead of Add, so now you will have your hair plate multiplied to your background plate. After that, you want to adjust the brightness of your hair plate using color correction to get rid of the grey-ish background that you receive from the multiply. :) Let us know if this method works for you! If you have more questions, feel free to post them on our Forum so we can have more in-depth discussions there: forum.actionvfx.com/t/new-after-effects-quick-tips-how-to-easily-key-hair-details-with-this-simple-trick/329

[@Wasmahsyerin]

@@ActionVFXofficialcan you make video for this please

[@tarikkodokuna6570]

Excellent 👌👌👌👌

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Thanks!

[@magiantstudio]

This is Genius

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Alirahnema_vfx]

It was so good

[@thatguyeth]

Can u guys make force field tutorial plz plz plz i am asking u to work on the force field tutorial or composition complex 3d model wz real footage plz help us with this

[@ActionVFXofficial]

You can find one of our previous tutorials on force fields here that has project files: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJKxln-foLOnirc&t

[@thatguyeth]

@@ActionVFXofficial oww thank you sir

[@example101]

A tut with OBS Studio border effect overlays.

[@KhairilAkbar-d9f]

What is the solution to make black hair? Is it the same way? please help

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Same process applies, you'll need to play around with the curves effect mentioned at 02:00

[@KhairilAkbar-d9f]

@@ActionVFXofficial But I want to save to the PNG Green Screen, and it doesn't need the background

[@naseerrindfilmmaker]

Thanks ...

[@EsleiderSoto]

How would it be done if the hair is black?

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Hello! We have made a separate tutorial specifically for black hair: kzbin.info/www/bejne/immphJh4h91piMU

[@Victoria-oz2nk]

What video editor do you use and is it a free one? thanks.

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Hello! In this tutorial we are using Adobe After Effects, they have a free 7-day trial that you can check out! www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/free-trial-download.html

[@Victoria-oz2nk]

@@ActionVFXofficial Thanks a lot for the information. Could you please tell me if Davinci resolve can do the same effect?

[@candyman3]

i think this only work with blonde hair, am i correct?

[@ActionVFXofficial]

This technique works best with brighter colored hair. For keying darker colored hair, we have made a separate tutorial that you can check out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/immphJh4h91piMU Let us know if there are any questions! -Danasa

[@BibalporuElTramposo]

excelente!

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Thank you!

[@hoganworld6065]

i lov you

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Awe, we love you too.

[@hengravy9803]

I Don'tk now How to do if Hair is Black color !!!

[@taurusw87]

If the hair color is black, you can't use this technique, right?

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Correct! We have made a separate tutorial for keying black hair: kzbin.info/www/bejne/immphJh4h91piMU

[@rifqiartstudio]

Anjay mas danasa

[@shash8085]

This does not work if the actor has black hairs

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Hello! For black hair keying, we have another tutorial for that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/immphJh4h91piMU

[@ahmednasr93]

just use IBK in nuke

[@AlbertAguirre]

cant get it to work

[@ActionVFXofficial]

Hey Albert! I'm sorry to hear that. What seems to be the issue? - Jonathan

[@AlbertAguirre]

@@ActionVFXofficial I think its the steps in your video, theyre specifically for blond hair. In my footage the actress has red hair, blackmagic 4k with low contrast to the green screen. It seems impossible to key out her hair. In your footage the contrast is high and green screen is not close to her hair color. In mine, too close. Im at a loss and behind in my project. Any ideas on possible a better third party key plugin?