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- About Keying
- Getting Started
- Changing the Background Color
- Adding the Foreground Subject
- Creating a Garbage Mask
- Applying the Color Difference Key Effect
- Choking the Matte
- Removing Spill
- Keying Out a Background with the Keylight Effect
- Adjusting Contrast
- Adding the Background Animation
- Adding the Title
- Adding the Animated Logo
- Copying Effects Across Two Layers
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Changing the Background Color
The default background in After Effects is black, which makes it hard to see holes or other errors when pulling a key. So you'll start by changing the background to something other than black or white. In this exercise, you'll use orange.
- Choose Composition > Background Color or press Ctrl-Shift-B (Mac OS: Command-Shift-B).
- Click the color swatch and select a bright orange hue, such as RGB 255, 200, 0 (see Figure 3). Then click OK to close the Color Picker, and OK again to close the Background Color dialog box.