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In this video we're going to learn how to use the add green, the March green and the remove green effects.
So go ahead and bring in your files.
Double click here.
Go into your folder.
Bring in the young girl close up and then the old video and also the logo have creations logo and then
import.
And we're going to use these files to learn how to use our effects.
Now I'm just going to select the young girl, close up right click and new comp from selection.
And I'll just do Ctrl or Command K here to reduce uh the size of my composition okay.
We don't want to spend forever applying our effect and make sure the aspect ratio is locked so that
you reduce both the width and the height, uh, simultaneously.
So just reduce it to, let's say the width to, uh, 1080.
Okay.
And then Just kill this down to the size of your composition here.
Perfect.
And then now I'm going to add the first effect which we will be looking at.
And that's the add green effect.
Yeah.
So what's the add green effect.
The add green effect you guessed it is just an effect we can use to add greens to our footages or to
our layers basically.
Okay.
So we can add a video green.
And now as soon as you add the add green effect you're going to see, uh, first of all the viewing
mode.
It's set to preview okay.
And you're going to see this box here, this little box here.
And that's basically the preview box.
And I'm just going to go to the preview region here and make this bigger okay.
The width size I'm going to make this bigger.
And so also the height size.
So you can see the preview even more or even better.
Perfect.
So uh this is because the effect is a bit demanding on the computer, so it's faster to preview your
effect just within this box.
Okay.
So you have your preview and then you can as well select final output so as to view your effect as it's
been applied to the entire image or footage.
So we also have presets.
So these presets are presets you can apply right away.
Our green presets you can apply right away to help you achieve specific looks right.
So there are a number of them here.
You can check them out.
You can go through them and see what they do or how they modify your image or your footage.
But I'm just going to select none here so we can look at those settings.
So we have the preview region of course, which you know about.
And we have the center.
We have the width the height the show box.
And I'm just going to go back and select preview.
Now the show box makes our box visible right.
So if we uncheck this the box won't be visible.
But if we check this, the box will be visible and then we can select this to change the color of the
outline of our box.
Okay.
Yeah, that's our preview box.
So that's basically it for the preview region.
And we have the tweaking region.
Now the tweaking region enables us to increase our intensity.
That's the intensity of our green.
And as you can see now our green is is being increased.
That's the intensity okay.
We can increase the size or reduce the size of our green.
You can see the effect here.
We can increase the softness or hardness of our green okay.
Then the aspect ratio.
That's basically the ratio between the horizontal and the vertical dimensions of our green okay.
So that's that for this.
And then we have the channel intensities.
With this we can target specific color channels and then increase or reduce the intensity.
So we have the red channel intensity.
We can make this to the right hand side to kind of reduce reduced it by adding the opposite, which
is green, and you can take it to the left hand side to increase it.
Okay.
Yeah.
And then we have of course the green intensity boosted up to increase the opposite.
And then take it back to kind of reduce the or increase the green intensity.
Right.
So we have uh, the blue intensity as well.
So basically these are uh, color channels.
And we can increase or reduce the intensities of our noise, uh, in the color channels.
And then we have channel sizes.
So this increases the, the size of your channel.
Let me just boost up my intensity here.
Okay.
And I'll just make this one one.
Yep.
So we have the red channel size the green channel size and the blue channel size.
Basically these are the sizes of our greens for these channels.
Okay.
So that's that.
For this.
Let me just reset this to take this back to normal.
Back to how it was before.
And I'll just, uh, change this to final output.
And let's go ahead and, uh, increase the intensity of our green.
Yep.
So this is what we want to have, right?
Perfect.
Now we have color so we can close tweaking and then open color.
And this color section help us modify the color of our green.
We can click here to make it monochromatic which is a single color okay.
And then we have the tint and we have the tint amount.
And then the tint color right.
We can select the tint color.
And I'm just going to add a specific color a specific tint color to our green okay.
So we've added this.
And then we can uh boost this up tint amount or reduce it okay.
We can even deselect monochromatic so that we have the saturation slider.
And we can basically increase the saturation of our tint.
Okay.
As you can see right here.
Okay.
Go in.
Change your tint color.
Boosting your saturation.
And basically you have this look.
Yeah.
So that's the color uh for you.
And then we have the application.
And this application basically controls how our green is applied to our image or to our footage of course.
So we have the blending mode.
Presently it's it's set to film.
Now this mimics the green you get from a camera film.
But there are many other options.
We have the multiply blend mode and this multiplies the effect just like the multiply blend mode.
Okay.
And we have the add blend mode gives us this effect.
We have the screen in the screen.
We just make things brighter and reduce the noise or the green.
And we have the overlay right.
This will make things a bit more contrasty.
And yeah so basically these are the blend modes.
Take this back to, uh, the film, and then we have the shadows.
We can basically increase the shadows as the green in the shadows.
We have the midtones.
We can boost up the greens in the midtones okay.
Or reduce it.
We have the highlights and the midpoint okay.
So basically these are the options you get with the application.
Yeah.
So that's it for the application.
And we also have the channel balance actually on the application.
Now in this channel balance basically balances the green in the color channels for shadows highlights
and midtones.
Okay.
So we have the red shadows.
We have the red midtones and red highlights.
So with green and so with blue.
So you can just uh take this to the right hand side to bring in more or to balance in between the red
and the green in the shadows.
Okay.
So right hand side left hand side.
So right hand side.
Add the red as you can see here.
And then to the left hand side it kind of adds more greens or reduces the red, just like how you can
see here, right?
Add more greens, which is the opposite of red.
And we have the mid-tones and the high and the highlight as well.
So you can just experiment with those to see for yourself.
So that's it for the color balance or the tonal balance.
And then we have animation.
Now this controls the animation of our green.
Now if we play we're going to see that our green is animated right.
Our greens are animated.
Yeah.
Just like how you can see right now.
So that's the animation for you.
It controls the animation of our green.
The first slider here is the animation speed, which controls the speed of our animation.
And then the animate smoothly which will smoothen out our animation okay.
And then we have the random seed which of course creates variations.
Okay.
Randomness for our animation.
Yeah.
So that's animation for you.
And then we have the last guy here which is blend with original.
Now this amount slider enables us blend our grain with the original.
Okay.
It blends our grain with the original.
And then we have the combined match and mass.
So we have multiply.
We have screen for this.
You can check them to see the options they do.
But you can just boost up the blend with original.
And then we now have the color matching and then the masking layer.
So these are a way to kind of limit your green to a certain color okay.
That's masking your green using a certain color selection or using a layer to create a mask for your
green application.
Okay.
So how do we do that.
Let's start with the matching color.
For the matching color you have to first of all choose the color or the color mode.
So RGB for this.
And then go ahead and select a matching color.
Okay.
So just pick your eyedropper tool here and then come and sample a color on your on your subject.
So I'm just going to sample the random color here on our her forehead.
And then when I go to blending matte.
So just come here where it says viewing mode instead of final up to select Blending Matte.
Now you're going to see that the matte has been created.
That's a mask of our selected color.
So if we select this guy now and select a different color, we're going to see that a different matte
has been selected due to our selection.
Right.
I'm just going to undo that to go back to our selected color.
And for this we have the matching tolerance.
So we can increase this or reduce this.
We have the matching softness.
We can increase the softness of our selection okay.
Or reduce it.
We can even come here where it says blur matte.
You can kind of increase the blurriness of our matte okay.
And when you're satisfied with your matte, you come back and select your final output.
Okay.
Now if you just zoom in, you're going to see that the green has been reduced on the areas with this
color.
Okay.
You might not see this very, very clearly.
But let me just go ahead and boost this up.
Boost the blend with original the amount.
Now we can now see this even better.
We can see that there is less of green here.
That's because we selected the color here.
You get.
So that's how this guy works.
Now we are masking this color.
So our green is excluded from this color.
So if you just zoom in here you're going to see that there is less green here as well.
And we can invert our match.
And it's going to do the opposite.
So you see there is more green on the part we selected and then less green on the other parts.
Yeah.
So that's how the match color or the color matching works.
Just click off to off that.
And we have the second type of matching which is which has to do with with the layer mask okay.
So with this I'm just going to bring in my logo.
This is my logo.
And then bring it here.
Just scale it down.
Okay.
And this is the logo.
Yep.
Now we're going to use the logo as a mask for green.
Now select your layer back.
Go back to your effect controls.
And then uh now on the mask layer we're just going to go ahead and select the logo w m for watermark.
And right away you can see that it's trying to mask out the green on our logo.
Okay on our logo but we might not see it for now.
So just come here and select Blending Matte.
And now you're going to see that this is our logo.
But it has been placed not properly.
It has not been placed properly.
So what I'll do is I'll just select my logo and then pre-compose it so pre-compose my logo, move all
attributes into the new composition, and then okay, now with this we are going to see that our logo
is now placed properly and we can go into our pre composition to properly place or change the direction
of our placement, and it's going to just update here.
As you can see.
Okay.
So this is just all you need to do.
And then go back to final output.
You're going to see that in this region we don't have much green.
Okay.
Because it's using our logo as a mask.
So in order to see this very well I'm just going to go ahead and boost up my intensity.
Good.
Now I've boosted up my intensity to 100.
And I'll just zoom in now.
And now you see what I'm talking about.
This is where my logo is placed and it's maxed out.
Right now there are other modes.
We can select the alpha mode, which will do a better job of masking out.
As you can see, because it's using the transparency of our logo.
And our logo is of course a PNG, right?
So we have the inverted intensity which will invert the intensity.
As you can see here we have the alpha sorry, the inverted alpha, which will do the opposite of the
alpha.
And we have the, uh, placement can experiment with this.
It's quite self-explanatory.
So that's it for the add green effect.
We have a lot of options, a lot of things we can customize here.
And most of the time you might not really need to use all of these okay.
So just get familiar with the ones which you will need more frequently and learn how to use them well.
So that's it for the add green effect.
Now let's go ahead and work on the remove green effect.
And for this I'm just going to go ahead and use the old video.
Now this is the old video.
Just create a new composition from selection.
And this is an old video.
And before we look at the remove green effect let's go ahead and look at the March green effect.
Now what's the March green effect.
The March green effect basically matches the green of a layer to the green of an existing video.
Okay.
Of a video with green.
So for example this is an old video.
It has some green.
As you can see it has a lot of green.
Okay.
So I'm going to try to create the text and then match the look of my text to the look of my video.
Okay.
Or the green of my text to the green of my video.
So I'm just going to right old video.
Yep.
And then this is our placement right here.
Just reduce the font size.
And go ahead and add the March green effect to select the March green effect.
And the March green effect has similar options with the add green effect.
So we have the preview mode like the Add Green.
As you can see we have our preview box and it's set to preview here.
But we can just go ahead and select Final Output.
And now we can see this really weird noise which has been added to our video.
Let's play it and see.
And yeah, this is what it has added automatically.
But we are just going to go in and make this better.
So the first thing we need to do is select the noise source layer.
So under noise Source layer come here and select the old video uh mp4.
Now this immediately will start sampling noise from our old video and adding it to our text.
So we see that this immediately becomes better right.
This becomes better immediately.
Now let's try to maybe change the the color of our text a bit.
Make it a bit brighter.
Hit okay.
Yeah.
So this is what we have now.
And we have a lot of options which we can play with.
Okay.
So we've looked at the region the preview region under the add grain effect.
So we want to look at the preview region.
And then we have the compensate for existing.
We can just uh boost this up to boost up the effect, the noise or the green effect on our video.
Okay, we don't want to do this too much, so just a bit we can see that without it even we are already
having the effect on our text, right?
So open tweaking and for tweaking we have the intensity, we have the size, we have the softness,
we have the aspect ratio.
This is basically similar to what we have in the add green effect okay.
So just experiment with them to see what you have on the color.
We also have the same thing you have with the add green effect okay.
We have the monochromatic.
We have the saturation.
We have the tint amount.
We have the tint color.
Close this.
And then under application we have basically the same thing we also have in the add green effect we
have the blending mode.
This is set to add.
We can make it film to see what we get or stick to add or try other blend modes.
Here we can work on the shadows, the mid-tones, the highlights, the midpoint, the channel balance,
and so on and so forth.
Okay.
And this doesn't have any video, so we won't need to make any adjustment to the channel balance since
it's just black and white.
So close application.
And then for sampling this now controls where the effect samples the noise from and applies to our text.
Okay.
So if you come here where it says final output and then go to noise samples, you're going to see that
we have some boxes here.
We have eight of them.
We can increase the numbers okay.
So that we have more sample boxes.
But we have eight of them.
And we have the sizes.
We can increase their sizes or reduce the sizes.
Now these are just points where the effect samples noise from to apply to our text.
Okay.
So we can actually place them manually just like you can see here.
It's manual.
So sorry.
It's automatic.
We can place them manually by selecting manual.
And now we can now now move all of them from where they are, which is the mid point, and place them
at points where we want our noise to be sampled.
Yeah.
So that's it.
And our noise will be sampled from these areas to be added to our text.
Okay.
We have intensity and we can basically increase the intensity of uh, of the sampling on each sample
point.
Okay.
So yeah, that's sampling for you.
And we have animation which controls of course, the admission of our noise.
Right.
And similar to the animation with the add grain effect, we have the blend with original which is also
similar with what we have in the blend.
Sorry in the add grain effect.
Now just come here and take this back to final output.
And this is what we have.
We can see that there is a great level of blending, okay, between our old video text and our old video.
Perfect.
Now let's go ahead and see what we have with the remove green effect.
Now let's select our old video and create another new composition from selection.
Yeah.
So for this you just go ahead and add the remove green.
Yeah.
This is the remove green.
So add it.
And same thing.
We have the preview mode or the view mode.
We have preview.
We can make this final output.
To remove the preview box we have the preview region which is similar with the last two effect we looked
at.
And then we have the noise reduction settings.
Now this will increase or this will enable us to reduce the noise.
We have the noise reduction.
And more of this will reduce the noise.
Okay.
And then passes will basically reduce the noise even more.
Okay.
It's just the number of Both iterations, the number of times it goes ahead and reduce the noise over
and over again.
So we have two passes, one pass, which will just do it once.
Okay, so not much we can boost this up.
However, to increase the noise reduction we have mode.
And under mode we have multi-channel which reduces the noise in multiple channels simultaneously.
And then we have the single channel which reduces the noise in single channels one after the other.
Okay.
And yeah so that's the mode for you.
That's the passes for you.
That's the noise reduction for you.
We have the channel noise reduction.
And yeah, this is basically it targeting each channel and reducing the noise in each channel.
And we don't have color in this video.
So this might not come in handy or this might not be useful in this case.
And yeah then we have fine tuning.
And this will help us fine tune our noise reduction.
Even better.
So we can see that the noise has actually been reduced a great deal.
Let's hide our effect to see what we had before.
This is what we had before.
You can see the noise.
And after our effect, we have some level of cleanliness.
Even though we are losing some details.
But we can add a lot of our details back with our settings.
So for fine tuning, you can increase the texture.
Okay.
Or reduce the texture.
So you don't want to increase the texture too much so that you don't have a lot of noise coming back.
And then for this chroma suppression it usually comes on when you have color okay.
So you can use it to remove noise from colored footages.
Okay.
We have noise size bias.
We have clean solid areas and so on and so forth.
So you can go ahead and play around with these to see the effect you get.
And then we have the temporal filtering.
And if I enable this it's going to respond to the movements in your footage okay.
So if you have a moving footage or a footage that is not stable, it's going to be good that you have
this turned on.
Okay.
And then we have the Unsharpen mask, which is just an unsharpen mask effect.
It basically sharpens our our video.
Okay.
The details in our video.
Okay.
The details in our video.
Now we have the amount we can make this, uh, increased.
We can increase this to increase the sharpening, the reduce the threshold.
You can go ahead and experiment with these settings and see what they do.
Okay.
Yeah.
So we have sampling and we have blend with original.
These settings are basically the same with what you have under the match screen and the add grain effect.
Okay.
You can go ahead and play with them to see what you can come up with.
So this is what we have finally.
So this is what we had before and this is what we have now.
We can see how much grain reduction we have achieved.
So that's it for this video guys on add grain match grain and remove grain.
See you in the next video.
Bye.