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Green Screen Keying
Broadcast-grade chroma keying with clean edges, full despill, and composite-ready mattes — even on tough greens, hair detail, and motion blur.
What Is Green Screen Keying?
Green screen keying is the process of extracting a subject shot against a colored backdrop so they can be placed into any new scene.
Bad keys leak green spill onto skin, chew up hair edges, and break the illusion. Good keys disappear — the viewer never knows compositing happened.
We use Keylight, Primatte, and IBK in combination with manual roto to deliver mattes that hold up at 4K and survive aggressive color grading.
Who Needs This?
- Broadcast news and weather teams
- Music video and commercial directors
- Corporate explainer producers
- E-learning and course-creation studios
- Virtual production and LED-volume teams
- YouTube and streaming creators
What We Handle
Full-body talent with motion-blurred hair
Transparent props: glass, fabric, smoke
Uneven green screen lighting and shadows
Blue screen, black, and custom-color keys
Multi-pass keys for foreground / midground / background
Despill, edge cleanup, and shadow preservation
Our Process
- 01
Footage Review
Assess key quality, spill, and lighting before quoting.
- 02
Primary Key
Multi-pass keying with Keylight, Primatte, and IBK.
- 03
Edge & Hair Detail
Garbage mattes and roto refine fine edges.
- 04
Despill & Color Match
Remove green cast and balance to target plate.
- 05
Comp Preview
Optional composite over your background for sign-off.
- 06
Final Delivery
Premultiplied alpha or matte in your spec.
Deliverables
- ProRes 4444 / DNxHR with embedded alpha
- Separate matte channel (PNG / EXR) on request
- Composited preview for review
- Project files (After Effects / Nuke) on retainer plans
Frequently Asked Questions
Need a key that actually holds up?
Send us a tough clip — we will key it for free so you can compare against your current pipeline.
Standard
$25/hour
1–4 videos · per-shot fixed quote up front
Bulk — Save 20%
$20/hour
5+ videos · automatic bulk rate
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