I need workflow advice with my green screen project! Help please!

Hello! I just shot a music video all in green screen. There are 5 different green screen shots and it is all HD. What is the best way to work with all of these green screen tracks? Should I key out all of the tracks and export them all with the alpha channel and then bring them back in? I just want to make sure when i layer them together to do effects, that it is not going to have to render everything again and take forever. Thanks!

Since this is your first production, you may need to transcode your "HD" to a frame-based codec before doing anything else.
Since this is your first chromakey shoot, we will assume you did not have the lighting and set optimized for proper green screen or you probably wouldn't be asking this question.
As Jim says, cut your show, get it close to locked. Take the green shots to Motion with some handles. Bring them back in as ProRes4444 movies.
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