White areas when keying a green screen footage.....

Hello there!
Have a look at the YouTube video link to see a peculiar problem.
Do you jappen to know of a solution around that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD1y5-yiasw
Thanks!
Yiannis.

Yes you are right my friend....
It is a 1080i footage shot in a photographic studio with proper and even (diffused) lighting.
The comp is 1080 (resolution).
I first refined the footage (smoothed even more the green backdrop, eliminated even the slightest noise (it didn't have much anyway).
I exported it totally uncompresed (Quicktime mov - uncompressed)
and I reimprted the perfect and uncompressed clip and started apllying some effects first in order to smooth any hard edges and generally to prepare the clip for keying.
But when the actress joins her limps or arms and there is a very small area between her limps mayby Keylight cannot grab the green color in this tiny area and I get these white
edges.....
I guess that eventually I wiil have to mask the footage.....
Thanks!!

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