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OK? Today, I'd like to show you spill suppression on the TriCaster.
Now, the term spill refers to key color unintentionally spilling
onto your foreground subjects due to, say, bright lights, reflections, etc.
So spill suppression attempts to minimize that color spilling
by reducing the amount of that color in the foreground subject.
So yet another helpful tool on the TriCaster
to help you make your keyed shots looking super nice.
So let me show you how it's done done.
All right.
So we're going to start off in the TriCaster 2 Elite interface.
And for today's example, I have my armored gentlemen again on my green screen,
and I want to embed that particular shot cleared out and throw him onto the
steps of City Hall here on my mix effect, which is currently on my program output.
OK, so let's go through a little bit of review like I did last week.
That's key out the background here.
So I'm going to go into my input 2 settings and click on keying.
All right.
And so we have the background key that's looking pretty good.
Let's go ahead and quick review
and use the show alpha overlay to then show you that.
All right, looks like the background is pretty much gone, and our foreground
subject is all in white, which means that I have a pretty good key
and being able to throw it into my mix effect is going to look good.
However, let's take a look here.
I'm going to zoom into this shot and I want to show you something.
So this doesn't necessarily show up on the show alpha side of things
because this gentleman is completely made of a reflective object.
You know, he's made of metal.
So if you're using a lot of lights, for example, or here, you know,
filming an armored gentleman like this, this could happen.
So you'll see now that along the edges
of our soldier here, we can see that green,
which is being reflected off of the lights and on the green screen that I'm on.
So this could happen in different scenarios.
Let me show you how to fix it.
So what we'll do
is we'll go into input two settings again by clicking on the gear icon
and on the keying side of things it's going to it's going to live inside
of your keying.
But these three options here at the top the tolerance, smoothness, luma
that is going to be assigned to the live mat itself.
But right here, the spill suppression that is what's going to go through
and adjust the color that it's on the foreground subject here.
OK, so to do that, basically we need to every scenario
is going to be a little bit different.
Keep that in mind.
But we're basically going to be turning up the tolerance and smoothness
until we can get to a level where this looks acceptable
and we're not having any green on the edges of our subject here.
All right.
So let me start to crank the tolerance over to the right.
And as I do that, you'll see that that green starts to go away.
All right.
So it's kind of going back and forth.
It's kind of like erasing it. All right, cool.
Now we can also adjust some of the tolerance as well.
I'm sorry, the smoothness to kind of get that looking a little bit sharper.
All right.
And that's looking good.
A lot more realistic. Cool.
So another helpful way for you to be able to key out your different shots
using the spill suppression on the TriCaster
so that you can get a more realistic feel, especially when you're
using a whole lot of lights or different lighting in your shot.
So again, with this, I highly recommend playing around with it.
And of course, have some fun.
Ah yes Spill Suppression.
Yet another helpful tool from TriCaster
to keep your key shots looking very awesome.
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