This brief tutorial will demonstrate how easy our Visual Overlays (and other chromakey products) can be used in your productions. If you're using the alpha-channel embedded Quicktime MOV files then overlaying is a couple of clicks in Premiere and that method is the same shown using our Globes Collection help found here on our support page

Firstly put your footage on the Video1A track and your Visual Overlay on the Video 2 (superimpose) track

Now we're going to tell Premiere to make any green areas transparent by Right Clicking on the Overlay and selecting Video Options> Transparency

Now choose the Key Type "Green Screen" (for Overlays with a Blue background you should choose "Blue Screen")

The first and MOST IMPORTANT option you should select now is the Smoothing drop down - it should always be set to HIGH. This is a commonly overlooked option in Premiere and can make the world of difference when keying.

With that set to High we can now fine-tune the Threshold and Cutoff. For a lot of the overlays, the default settings of Threshold=100 Cutoff=0 may be sufficient, but if you feel the key isn't very good you can tweak these values and get realtime results in the Sample window in the top right of the box.

Generally during tests we found that a Threshold of around 70 and a Cutoff of 30 does the job nicely - see image below

Click OK and you're done! Make a preview and check the Key (or press ALT and left-click on the top of the timeline). If it needs tweaking you can always go back to the Transparency Settings and jig the Threshold and Cutoff values.