One of my tutorials that many people have found helpful is how to remove a green screen in Adobe Premiere Pro. In this article, I'm going to share some additional background removal techniques for situations where you don't have a green screen, using clips like the video here as examples.
We're starting with a video clip that does not have a green screen background. Each clip will be different, so I will probably do several examples. In this specific case, we should note a few things:
I'm going to demonstrate a two-layer approach to achieve a decent cutout when the background isn't a green screen.
To begin, we're going to use the keying effects in Adobe Premiere Pro, specifically the Luma Key and Ultra Key effects. Here's the step-by-step process:
threshold
and cutoff
to balance getting as much of the subject and as little of the background as possible. This step focuses on the luminance or brightness.eyedropper tool
) to pick a color in the background you'd like to remove. Make adjustments in the Matte Generation
and Matte Cleanup
sections to refine the key.For the before and after effect, use the Crop effect from the Transform
under the Video Effects folder. Animate the crop from 0% to 100% to show a before-and-after transition.
By combining the Luma Key and Ultra Key methods and refining with masks, you can achieve a clean background removal even without a green screen. While not perfect, this approach offers a quicker alternative to frame-by-frame rotoscoping, which is more suited for After Effects.
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