How To REMOVE Backgrounds WITHOUT A Green Screen! | After Effects Tutorial

In this tutorial, we will learn how to remove your video background without a green screen or blue screen in Adobe After Effects! We will show you two ways to do this: Luminance Keying (Luma Keying) and Rotoscoping using Rotobrush.

00:00 Intro
00:20 Green screen workflow
00:38 The luminance method (Sky Replacement)
03:45 The rotoscope method (Rotobrush)
06:20 Outro

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Want to learn how to do green screen instead? Check out our green screen tutorial!

so first, let's refresh our memory on the green screen workflow. In theory, it's really simple. All you need is a shot of your subject in front of a green screen and then in After Effects, you'll want to get Keylight and then grab the green color or blue if you use blue screen.

And then, we want to play around with the settings a little bit to get a cleaner key. So then what if you don't have any access to green or blue screen?

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[_jw_harper]

Please do more tutorials for all of us wishing to know more. Your work is exceptional.

[Zewwy_ca]

I don't really like Adobe, which is why I use GIMP instead of PhotoShop.
The helpful tricks in this video are great, thanks for sharing these great techniques.

[blackblood]

man you sre so amazing i love your techs

[gvuprise]

What a genius! Would love to see more in depth tutorials and see more vfx assets used in them. Love you and your work.

[EDITOR-id]

Hi

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[andrewalker]

Hello you had a video up a few hours ago about how to create super speed effect . Cold you put it back up so I can watch it again please. thanks

[jaisonsfavorites]

U guys are great love u all..❤❤❤ Very helpful in my current project

[bobbuethe]

I'm watching this with Closed Captioning on. "Luminous keying" is getting captioned as "aluminum skiing." 😀

[SpencerMagnusson]

I saw the thumbnail and thought this would go over difference keying - always wanted a good demo of that being effective. But these are also good tips too :) thank you!

[richard.nicolini]

Hello, thank you for this ingenious tutorial. Is there a similar "manipulation" to do in Premiere Pro?
Thank you for your answer.

[Studios]

Do you have to hit freeze to get the preview? I get a preview without hitting freeze and every time I hit freeze it stalls after frame 92.

[johntnguyen]

How do you read minds?! I need this for an upcoming project this week! 😍🙌🏽 And proper luminance keying isn't really that common of a tutorial topic.

[issuesplusdaily]

You are too fast, forgetting that there may be beginners watching this video. So, basically, I learnt nothing from this tutorial.