Suggestions for 16mm Keying?

Ugh, I want to shoot myself right now.

I’m working with scanned 16mm Film, and its grainy as hell. Whats worse is that it was shot in lower light than usual. The actress has brunette hair tightly bound into a braid, but there are small pieces of hair that are sticking out from her head.

Anyone have any suggestions for tackling this? Unfortunately I can’t upload anything, so I’m not expecting any really detailed help, but suggestions would be great.

My current plan of attack has been to generate a core and edge mattes, then using separate keyers for pieces of the hair. But damn, everything is so grainy, I just can’t avoid sizzling edges. I tried degraining the green screen, then comping the foreground back over it and keying that. That got me a little more progress, but not enough.

Primary keyers i’m using are the IBK and Primatte. Lumakeys just aren’t getting the detail I need.

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