What\u00a0is Light Wrapping?<\/h2>\n
Light wrapping is a compositing technique designed to blend keyed out green screen footage with a\u00a0background plate. When done correctly,\u00a0light wrapping<\/strong> can really help give realism to your scene. If overdone, it can make your footage look soft and unbelievable.<\/p>\n Often times light wrapping<\/strong> is preformed automatically when using a keying software. However, just like in photography, automatic doesn’t always mean better!<\/p>\n In a nutshell, light wrapping<\/strong> works by softening\u00a0the hard edges produced when keying out a green screen footage. By adding in a feathered portion of the background to the edges of the keyed subject you can make your scene look more like a composition than a series of layers. Check out the following diagram:<\/p>\n As you can see light wrapping<\/strong> is a very subtle effect that, when done well, isn’t going to be noticed by your\u00a0audience. The light wrapping layer is merely using the outline of the keyed footage to blur out a small portion of the background. Light wrapping<\/strong> is used to simulate the ambient light that is supposedly casting light onto your subject in the scene. In some circumstances (like mixed lighting) it can be better to use another layer besides your background layer for the light wrap, but it all depends on your scene.<\/p>\n Even though light wrapping is a pretty straightforward concept there is a seemingly endless number of ways to create a good light wrap. The following tutorials illustrate a few ways to tweak and manually create a light wrap.<\/p>\n In this After Effects video tutorial, AE expert Mikey Borup<\/a> shows us how to create a light wrap using only a few effects including the Set Matte, Fast Blur, and Channel Blur.<\/p>\nHow to Light Wrap<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nLight Wrap Tutorials<\/h2>\n
Easy Light Wrap by Mikey<\/h3>\n