Thanks Henry! You know, for a lot of the shots in the breakdown, I literally used the CHEAPEST fabric I could find.

The stuff is terrible, you can probably tell from some of the green screen shots when you see REALLY wrinkled fabric in the background, but you'd be surprised what you can get away with in After Effects (more specifically with the key light plugin).

Anyway long story short, don't wait too long to get that fabric, in the end its gonna be the lighting which makes or breaks it for your keying.

Good luck!

Thank you Michel! Unfortunately you would never be able to get results like this using just Premiere (at least it would be very difficult).

All these shots were done in After Effects and the plugin I used for keying was called Keylight (comes with After Effects).

It's an incredibly powerful plugin as you can see!

Thanks! Haha very good eye you have there! Yes I used Action Essentials 2 (2K version) for all the smoke/fire effects.

Haha Thanks! I've been considering buying it, but I still haven't. It looks like you can get some great results.

It's pretty awesome, in retrospect the 2K version probably isn't very necessary, but it is nice knowing I'm covered in case I wanna go really big.

Thanks man, I'll be sure to check out your reel!

Thank you!

Haha I'm not quite ready to start making tutorials yet, but I would be very happy to answer any questions you have about the filming or post-production process. Just shoot me an email (contact info in description) anytime!

Your setup actually sounds exactly like mine, I use those 800w red head lights too (things are fricken fire hazard).

One thing that really helped me was these sheets of white plastic (diffuser material) I bought from a film supply store. They're really cheap, fire resistant (trust me you'll need that) and I just clip them directly onto the light itself to diffuse the hard shadows you get from those red heads.

haha thanks