Motion Keying Tests

These were done in AE, using combinations of color keying, luma keying, color extraction and color range..

Test Warping - Only person, not background... from Hayden Martin on Vimeo.

In the next video, I'd refined the way I do it a little:

Test Warping - Only person, not background... 2 from Hayden Martin on Vimeo.

"Mokey" is a piece of software that removes motion from it's original background and then places it into it's own layer for tampering or re-insertion into something else.

Price : £1,996.77

Another is "The Foundry"s Toolset - one of the plug-ins is called "Furnace" and is very similar to the above.

Price: £300

Demonstration-wise, Mokey looks superior. But to a poor, amateur film maker like me, Furnace looks like a miracle.