Green Screen - need to bring back a small portion of clothing

I shot some video against a green screen and the talent wore a green shirt under a black jacket. It is only a small portion of what she was wearing and the shirt never touches the green screen. Is there a way to only ultra key contiguous green or a way to bring her shirt back in after it is keyed out. It is only about a 30 second video and not a lot of movement.
thank you

It sounds like you did it the right way. Or, rather, the easiest, most common way.
It is possible to take the video, mess with the levels until you get all black or white, and use that as a mask. If you reduce the mask a bit you can avoid messing up any edges.
The advantage of that is that you don't have to keyframe. But that only works with some video. If there are soft edges like hair it won't work very well. But for clothing it is usually OK. Sometimes the movement is so radical that creating a mask out of the video itself can be a real time saver.

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b) If modifications are needed, migrate to VB.NET.
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Microsoft have painted themselves into a bit of a corner here, stating that they support unmodified VB6 applications until 2023, but you can't (theoretically) modify them.
For completeness on this point I'll cover some other typical scenarios too:-
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Another is that the VB6 application needs a mobile version. A few years ago that may have been VB.NET for Windows Mobile. (I've done that myself too, great for Windows CE/Windows Mobile 6.x). But doing this today you are really looking at iPhone,iPad
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The final scenario I'll mention is the one Microsoft do cover - migrate your desktop VB6 app to desktop VB.NET. I can't think of any occasion in the last few years where I have found a genuine need to do this. I have certainly seen cases where
IT (or whoever) have decided that VB6 apps must be migrated because VB6 is 'obsolete' (I guess a view not too dissimilar from many in this forum). I've even done a few of these myself (though I had the sense to only do smaller migrations, not wanting
to tie myself up with large scale migrations). I don't think of any of these new applications (done by myself or others) were any better than the ones they replaced, but at least the customers were happy (and paid well).
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language.
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for VB6
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You ask what I will be doing in 5 years when nobody uses PCs anymore ? Well who knows what the future will bring, but it is likely to be VB6 for those (mainly corporate) users still using desktops and laptops or Windows tablets, JavaScript for
Web apps - including iOS and Android - (I note Microsoft are recommending JavaScript/HTML5), and something (maybe Basic4Android ?) for native Android apps if Android phones and tablets become more acceptable for corporate users. I'll probably
also be migrating my VB.NET apps to JavaScript too.
As things stand, Microsoft have sent a clear message: 'If you are planning to make a substantial investment in developing your software, if your application is mission-critical, if you expect to use it for years to come - don't use Microsoft languages.'
Have Microsoft learnt from this ? The killing of Silverlight would suggest not.

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