This has been the very first proper explanation I’ve seen in more than 4 years struggling with green screen. I periodically was using green screen and had given up on using them. Thank you for the great information and actually showing the set lighting.
Easily the best and most comprehensive, and most compact, green screen tutorial I have seen in all the years I have been doing Chroma Keying. Many thanks!
very nice and beautiful effects. Great work . thanks for uploading such amazing effects. keep it up and you will get more and more subscribers. Best of luck.
Thanks a lot for these wonderful tips ..i had an issue of back drop which i was not able to understand why this is happening and how to remove it...you have solved my problem..thanks dear
@henryblazer20 The screen in the video is a 10x20 size and the flex screen is a 5x7 size. You can try two things. You can frame your subject tighter so the background fills in the shot, or you can create a mask around your subject and cut out all the rest of the background, so you only have the greenscreen to work with behind your subject.
There may not be enough light on the screen itself, or it may not be even. You might have to do a couple sweeps through the keying process in your editor to fine tune it. Or try masking the edges out completely. As long as your subject doesn't move in that area, you can mask it out and forget about it.
Hi.have done lovely job and i really appreciated your 3 and 5 light set up.I just want to know these are light set common for videography and photography and more then i know about key , fill ,back and top light watt and intensity of focus. i am interested to purchase this set so how can you shift in india? have any braches in india so recommend me, and send all detais regarding light set up with green screen
We know. He meant you get more of a depth of field effect. We might put an annotation on that part. Keep getting comments. Thanks though. We appreciate you watching :)
Yes, you can chromakey the trumpet, but anything behind the trumpet will be keyed out. I would suggest playing with camera angles and testing it out. There are ways to make it look real while still keeping the chromakey affect.
I found this video especially helpful and informative. Many thanks for some great information! The presenter is very articulate, and speaks in a way that even people like me, who are hard of hearing, can easily understand. I appreciate that.
For photography FXHome's Photokey 6 is one the best. For video, at the high end you have Adobe After Effects with KeyLight. FxHome also makes video editing software called HitFilm which works well, and costs quite a bit less then After Effects.
I was just watching some RU-vid videos about setting up the lights, and your video pop up! I love it it's going to be helpful for me, I am beginner I'm about to start, and the other problem than lights for me is video editing software or application. Can you please advise me which one is good, cheap and easy to use??
Actually a wider aperture causes soft edges and makes it harder to key out footage not easier, this is a common misconception by a lot of VFX people. Watch any Raw Green screen on a professional set and you'll notice everything in shot is in focus including the background, this is because you need clearly defined edges not soft edges, this does not create good separation.
That is true to a degree but soft edges make for better blending. Also a shallow depth of field hides problems the screen itself such as wrinkles and shadows.
tubetape This is true for very basic shots with a locked off camera. However to shoot complex camera moves you need tracking markers. At any moment in a shot that has a moving camera. It's a requirement to have three points of tracking, position, scale and rotation. Nothing is more frustrating than having a shot that has markers that are blurred because of motion blur or depth of field. So the correct fix for fuzzy edges and blurry tracking markers is not to use the depth of field to even out the green screen but rather introduce more light and use a minimum 45 degree shutter and of course a stop down to account for the extra light. The 45 degree shutter will minimize motion blur and keep your image nice and crispy for your artists. If I had my way I'd do all chroma shots with a 90 degree shutter,but then all the shots would look like the beach invasion sequence in Saving Private Ryan.
Anthony Vu Hello Anthony, maybe you can help with an edit I'm trying to do (with my friend who is editing). She's working on AfterEfects (AE6) (with the Avid as editor), we have green screen footage with camera movement. The tracking marks on the green screen (green syc wall) were light green. She's trying to track the camera movement by using the track motion, But the track motion doesn't recognize the marks, we think maybe they are not different enough from the green screen wall. She tried the the option Track a 3D camera, after completing step 1 - processing the entire clip we get a message - Can't analyze video. Finally we tried to track the movement on Mocca AE software, And for some reason when we Import the clip It recognizes all the data but the viewer screen where we're suppose to see it, Remains black. Any thoughts and help will be greatly appreciated.
It is the 550D, but I have Magic Lantern installed (magiclantern.fm). Adjusting white balance by kelvin is just one of the many cool features magic lantern adds to the camera. I think we are going to do a quick video on it shortly, showing some of the cool thing Magic Lantern does.
You can key out SD footage. However, the software has less pixels to work with and you won't get the kind of results you'll see with HD. However, your camera settings may be effecting the result as well. SD Footage should look pretty good if shot properly.
The Cool Flo lights we used are rated at 5200 kelvin. We used a combination of 4 bank and 7 bank Cool Flo lights, and each bulb is 85 watts and puts out the equivalent of a 300 watt incandescent bulb.
@ 3:29 - You guys are so silly! It's not the sun that's moving, it's yer planet!! But this is a great vid. The first half is probably the most direct, comprehensive greenscreen tutorial I've ever seen, and the second half makes for a great advert. Excellent editing and the host/narrator does a great job, too:)
I have seen many green screen lighting videos and they all say that you need to position your actors away from the background. But none have touched on the situation where an actor needs to come in contact with the green surface. Like leaning against a wall or walking/laying on a floor that will be keyed out later. How does one combat spilled green reflection in a situation like that?
Surely a higher aperture value is better because you would want to prevent things like hair and clothes from blurring with the background from depth of field? Or am I missing something?
By Far One Of The Best Videos I Have Ever Seen On RU-vid... Well done guys i am having some serious issues keying out which this video has helped .....but i will email you guys with more details if these do not work .....great video thank you .....Jemile
Hi! Can you please, tell me if there is an app that allows a "green screen" background to be "built into" a video recorder ? Which would mean that my video recording would automatically end up with a green background ? Just like the videos we see on RU-vid... Thanks.
My camera uses a neutral color setting with which the color saturation is a bit low. do you think increasing the color saturation in the camera will get me a better keying? because the green color would standout... any info on that, thank you for the amazing video :)
I know this is an old comment bit in going to answer it anyway in case anyone else has this problem. Yes, cameras with higher saturation will benefit you if you are using a green screen, because higher saturation makes the colors contrast more and allows the software to easily tell your subject from your background.
I just received my portable green screen and its not keying all the green or blue out. I tried it several different ways in my living room infront of my window for best lighting. My edges are esp not being keyed out i dont know what to do can u help?
Would filming in V-Log cause any issues in post when ultra keying? Is it better to shoot natural when capturing green screen footage? Thanks in advance!
I've recently started using a green screenfor my videos. I've got a problem with my process. First, I create my initial draft with the screen, then edit it, and export it. Then, I take it back into my editor to change the background and export it again for the final one. Am I doing it correctly or doubling my effort foolishly? OR, is it done this way only?
@henryblazer20 Pinnacle should have some masking capabilities (most editing software does). I would check their tutorials or contact their support department if you can't find it in the software.
That was a brilliant tutorial.it gave me a novice green screen user great advice for using green screen.Thanks and please continue with great imformative tutorials.5 stars from me,Great work!
