<p>I hope I understand this correctly, are you saying that you have actors in front of a green screen and sometimes they are off the screen? If you want to chroma key the green screen to be another surface you have to have it consistent all the way through. Green screen is hard enough to get right. (Green or blue screen backgrounds have to be evenly lit with a flat diffused light, non-reflective, and no shadows, otherwise the green screen will look blotchy,
and have noise areas that you can't just tweak out.)</p>

<p>Trying to mask out where your actors fall out of the green screen frame does not have a solution in it. If you didn't get this right in production you won't be able to fix this in post. At least not fix it in post with anything that looks close to natural. I highly recommend you shoot this over.</p>

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2015-01-14T14:14:15.390Z
It *is* fixable in post, though it's more work. And as mentioned in my answer there is a tool for *exactly* this job.
stib
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2012-02-06T22:33:14.927Z
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filzilla
<p>Have you used the Roto Brush? It was designed for situations like these.</p>

<p>For those unfamiliar, there is a nice <a href="http://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_ae_roto_brush_douglas.html" rel="nofollow">concise tutorial here</a> on how to use the Roto Brush.</p>

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2012-02-07T12:01:05.813Z
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stib
<p>I am currently editing a clip in After Effects. We had a very limited supply of green screen so I am now having to edit some of the white wall too. The thing is, the actors move around, not allowing me to clip out these parts.</p>

<p>I was wondering if there was a thing in After Effects that allowed me to break up the clips so that I can work around the actors in certain time intervals and get the white wall to be transparent.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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2012-02-07T14:38:20.283Z
There's no easy way.  Luma key on the white walls, and roto any trouble spots.
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# Adobe After Effects Frame-By-Frame Editing

(Asked by: username_0 on 2012-02-05)

I am currently editing a clip in After Effects. We had a very limited supply of green screen so I am now having to edit some of the white wall too. The thing is, the actors move around, not allowing me to clip out these parts.

I was wondering if there was a thing in After Effects that allowed me to break up the clips so that I can work around the actors in certain time intervals and get the white wall to be transparent.

Thanks!

**Tags:** after-effects

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: There's no easy way.  Luma key on the white walls, and roto any trouble spots.  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2012-02-06. Score: 0 | Accepted answer

I hope I understand this correctly, are you saying that you have actors in front of a green screen and sometimes they are off the screen? If you want to chroma key the green screen to be another surface you have to have it consistent all the way through. Green screen is hard enough to get right. (Green or blue screen backgrounds have to be evenly lit with a flat diffused light, non-reflective, and no shadows, otherwise the green screen will look blotchy,
and have noise areas that you can't just tweak out.)

Trying to mask out where your actors fall out of the green screen frame does not have a solution in it. If you didn't get this right in production you won't be able to fix this in post. At least not fix it in post with anything that looks close to natural. I highly recommend you shoot this over.

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: It *is* fixable in post, though it's more work. And as mentioned in my answer there is a tool for *exactly* this job.  

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### Answer by username_3 on 2012-02-07. Score: 1

Have you used the Roto Brush? It was designed for situations like these.

For those unfamiliar, there is a nice [concise tutorial here](http://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_ae_roto_brush_douglas.html) on how to use the Roto Brush.


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