 Hello everybody welcome back to another Premiere Pro tutorial and this one I'm going to show you how to dramatically in fact massively improve your green screens and your green screen keying in maybe two minutes. I'm going to show you two new techniques that are going to make a huge difference for you as you can see here there's an example. This is a very good mask and I've done nothing fancy but when I hit space and you'll see that is playing look there's no sparkly in her hair it doesn't have any of those so many the different issues that you see in some of those more aggressive green screens and if you look on the left side here here's the original footage you will notice that on the edges it's a little darker and it's a little greener and a little bit better lit in the middle so this is very very common and I'm going to show you how to get rid of the darkness and how to green screen you know screens like this that are not properly lit because sometimes you don't have access to that so here we go here is the original green screen let's just go ahead and start from scratch the first step and this is a very important one is we're going to go to effect controls and check this out I'm going to click on the on the video so here's my video and you can see here that at the about the 10 second plane she throws her hands up in the air and she moves around so what I'm going to do is I'm going to create what's called an opacity mask what you do is in the effect controls panel if you don't see it you can just go to window and then make sure there's a check mark beside effect controls in effect controls I'm going to go ahead click on opacity before I do that though I'm going to actually go to 25% here on the fit so what I what I need to happen is I need to be able to draw a mask around this area and I need it to be able to see the whole thing so I'm going to go to 25% and now I'm going to grab my free draw bezier or the pen tools what I prefer to call it and I'm going to draw a tight mask around the edges here so what I'm going to do I'm going to draw a mask here here basically around the stuff that doesn't get used and remember when I showed you at the beginning there that she does some crazy arm movements and stuff like that so I'm just going to keep this nice and tight just like this I might have gone a little too tight there let's see no I just barely made it and here I'm just drawing a mask and again this isn't a perfect mask I just want to show you the technique if I had lots of time I would draw it a little perfect I've moved it up into fit and basically what I've done is I've drawn a mask around and sort of handled all of the stuff that is a little bit in the darker area so I'm basically just getting rid of the stuff on the outside so that's the first step and in the effect controls panel you'll see that I've created mask one now the second step is we're going to go to the effects panel right here if you don't see it again window make sure to check mark beside effects and then just type in ultra so I'm going to type in the word ultra and that's going to give me the video effects keying ultra key I'm going to drag and drop ultra key on top here and nothing happens out of the box but here's the second thing if you if you check this out you'll see here under key color I'm going to go ahead and click on that little eyedropper tool and I can go ahead and I can click on it and then I can drag it over top of you know the green part but watch this if I hold down the command key on a Mac control key on a pc see how the eyedropper has increased in size that basically means that we're taking a larger sample so instead of just taking a single green sample we're going to take a sample of this area and I'm going to get it nice and close to the edge because that's kind of where some of the lesser the lesser well-lit areas is so I'm going to go ahead and click on that area let go and presto it's done a fantastic job now the last step I like to do is you can of course go in here and adjust the matte generation and all these different settings if you want but watch this if I switch this from default to aggressive it literally has created nearly a perfect uh perfect green screen for me so I'm going to hit play watch this if you look at her you're not going to see all that shimmering and sparkling and all that crazy stuff you see in so many uh green screen videos this is literally a perfect green screen and those two techniques will get you there so thanks for watching be back soon with a lot more stuff