Goodbye Greenscreen v1.1.

0 Guide
1. Installation
Run the .exe file. There are two relevant directories. First, is the folder where
the plugin should put the .aex effect files. You probably want them to get
recognized by AE and should therefore install them in the (preset) common folder.
Second, the folder of the dependencies. You can choose an arbitrary folder here,
but we recommend to put them in the Program Files folder. The environment path
variable will be set accordingly and the plugin will detect its dependencies.
If you checked the „Visual Studio Runtime“ component, the installer will launch
the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime installer. In the case of already installed
dependencies the VC installer will notify you and you must close it to continue
installation.
1. GPU support
Check the box on the first page of the installer to install the plugin in the
(experimental) GPU mode. If you encounter problems with the gpu version run the
installer again without checking the box to install CPU version.

2. Usage
Launch After Effects. If installation was successfull you'll find the effect under
„Blace Plugins“. Otherwise, you may get notified by AE about incompatibilities.
Please reach out for support on in this case.

3. Registration
Open registration dialog and enter your aescripts.com license code to unlock the
effect. If not unlocked, effect will draw a red cross on rendered footage.

4. Apply the effect to your footage and read the parameters description below
carefully.

Parameters

There are two keying modes, „Background“ and „Color“.

Background Mode
In this mode you provide the plugin with a video or image of background+subject and a
still image of the background alone. Best, during recording you make sure to capture a
frame without the subject. Lightning between both clips should be as similar as possible
and the colors of the foreground subject shouldn't be present in the background layer.
Both layers don't have to align 100% percent. If they contain enough visual clues (like
the wall pattern in the example above, text boards or other features of high contrast)
they can be perspectively aligned by the plugin.

Background layer
This is the layer with the clean background plate as described above.

Match Perspective
If your foreground+background video and your background plate don't match 100% (e.g. the
foreground+background video was shot handheld) switch this on and both layers will be
perspectively aligned. You can always check the result of the alignment by setting
„Output Mode“ to „Warped Background“. If your footage already aligns very well (because
it was shot from a tripod), leave this off.

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Maximum Matchpoints (only with Match Perspective)
Set maximum amount of features to find for perspective matching. Increase this value if
perspective alignment doesn't produce stable result.

Use Percentage of Matches (only with Match Perspective)

The higher you set this value, the more percentage of the features found are used for
perspective matching. E.g. setting this to 10% will use the best 10% of all features.

Engine
The AI engine used internally. „Low“ can be alot faster than „Ultra“, but „Ultra“ gives
the best result.

Refine Amount
Refinement of the edges. Set to a higher value at the cost of performance.

Output Mode
Choose between „Result“, „Matte“ or „Warped Background“.

Color Mode
This is a simple AI based color keyer, in which you only set a color. Color mode can be
used if the background is of uniform color and doesn't require an background layer.

Output Mode, Engine & Refine Threshold as above

Color
The color to key.

Use GPU (only if plugin was installed in GPU mode. See 1.1.)
Run the AI engine on the GPU. This may drastically increase performance at the cost of
stability. You probably can't use any other GPU accelerated effect together with this
option. Save and restart AE if the plugin crashes in this mode.

Troubleshooting

You get a message „Not enough features to match.“

This can happen if you use the „Match Perspective“ feature, but your
foreground+background and background video don't contain enough visual clues to match the
perspective. Set the „Use Percentage Of Matches“ to a higher value. Experimenting with
this value may be required, since a higher value will also incorporate features of lower
quality into the matching process. Best solution is to make sure during the recording,
that your footage contains enough visual clues. If you are in a studio setup, you could
place tracking markers in the corners of your frame (they shouldn't intersect with the
foreground subject!).

Rendering is slow
Use „Low“ engine for faster preview. We are also working on GPU support for Nvidia cards.

Result is not as desired

Please open a support ticket on aescripts.com/contact and, if possible, provide us with
examples of your footage.

Credits
Keying engine by: https://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/background-matting-v2/

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