Just wanted to give everyone a heads up! - While this tutorial still works great for Blender 2.79, if you are using Blender 2.8 I have a new updated tutorial here: ruclips.net/video/5ZpGpfQjzJA/видео.html
I saw this video when I was little and THIS is actually what inspired me to be a VFX artists and I'm still doing it till this day hoping to get into a studio, I doubt anyone will see this but thanks for the inspiration man:)
I have done a decent amount of green screening in Blender. I did not know what or how to use the garbage or core setting on the keying node.Now because of you and this excellent tutorial I do. Thank you very much for this tutorial.
Dude really? you make all these videos that say "Blender tutorial" . Then you spend 1/2 the time talking about Adobe or something and how you have to change the keys around in blender to fit your style and be like "after affects." You make a video (20 minutes long) on the same subject that leaves viewers scratching there head and saying "wtf". Now 6 months later your like, "thanks Blender Steve for teaching me about green screening." Here's a free tip, to make Blender tutorial keep it about Blender (not other programs). Oh, and it helps to know what your talking about.
Posted this a few times already in the comments, Just connect an Alpha Over node to the end of your nodes, and connect your background image in the top slot. Voila!
Oh girl this video got me shooketh because girl I tried to make this video, it didn't work, but girl I persisted, look at me now. I am Beyonce of all technology. I liked this video so I put a ring on it.
Hay gente que poniendo cualquier tipo de excusa pretende cobrarle a la gente mucho dinero por enseñarles a manejar Blender....aunque no sean en mi idioma sus vídeos, los entiendo mas o menos...Gracias por enseñarnos libremente a manejar Blender de manera profesional.
Stupid question, but... I've been trying to render a greenscreened clip while still keeping other clips in the video editor timeline... is that possible? I feel like I'm overlooking something really obvious...
Hey CG! I know it's a bit late to comment so I hope you see this but I don't know how to connect my background image to alpha over to add a backdrop. I put the green screen vid on the bottom and the backdrop pic on the top after doing everything in your tutorial. It won't work so please help. :)
Very useful. I had been struggling with green screen and had no idea that this quality was possible. (I had been running the raw footage directly into a green keying node and couldn't figure out why there was no 'garbage matte' node available.) I had no idea that you could create a tracking matte as a mask. So many hidden places in Blender.
At 5:7; after selecting key color if I click on image nothing is happening. My footage is 960*540 @ 23 fps & I have filled the resolution and fps properly in the beginning, what is the problem?
Anyone know where I can find free HD clips of green screen tracking scenes with an actor for practicing? Would love some of a character just walking down a camera or with some stable camera moves around the person.
Timing is totally messed up on my clip in the "Movie Node". My 10 second clip is 40x as long (almost 7 minutes). Same clip in the video sequencer runs correctly at 10 seconds.
Problem is adding the background. I have a character walking through a room (which I made in Blender), and finding it hell to remove the green screen and make him walk realistically in the room.
hey is it possible to rig my body motion into a animation rig that i could apply to say a Giant mesh or something say if i was holding a toy sword and swinging it on a video and wanted a sword mesh i made in blender to follow the sword motions from my video how could this be done? sorry for any awful spelling ;)
If the green screen you want to remove is an extra helping you in a morph suit (say you're doing a martial arts battle and want to look like you're jumping on air), then can you use the whole clip as a mask to do the same? (Using a still shot of your scene without the actors as the fill)
please help, blender crashes when ever i render/composite. it works fine when using the viewer node though. it crashes even when there is no other nodes other than the ones necessary, which is just the 5 used in this tutorial. is there another way to do all the stuff you did in this tutorial using the channel key node instead of the keying node?
Great video, short yet detailed enough to give a good idea of how to work with masks and chromakeying. Question though --- is there a way of using the compositor nodes for keying in conjunction with the video sequence editor?
Hi CG GEEK, pls is it possible to light up a greenscreen to generate shadow or is it possible to get the shadow of a green screen object when u light it in blender? Thanks
hey brow, I need a help, I'm looking to creating a stop motion animation with toys, but I was thinking use green screen on stop motion then use another software to create the background scenery, so how could I take stop motion animation in green screen and import to blender the in blender create the background scenery to stop motion animation, so le't try simplify the question, take the stop motion animation done in green screen import to the blender then in the blender create the scenery, could help me how could I do it please, thanks. PS: I would like to know what tools on the blender I should use to create the scenery for the stop motion animation ( the stop motion would be made using toys, like spiderman, super man etc....
Mono Background here is the video that I did with your footage and great tutorial if there is some mistake about publishing please tell me for anybody who cannot key the man please see your fps that set in render property select the one that match the video for this video I set at 29.97 (so I got this problem in the first time) so I will try more and practice on my own work later respected
Hi small thought of camera tracking. I saw somebody using HTC Vive Tracker device to track the realworld camera to move virtual camera in Unreal Engine. I wonder if it is also possible in blender. Can you attach HTC Vive Tracker to your camera which you use on greenscreen and record its moves to use this for virtual camera position in blender?
Okay, from the other comments, it's clear that this tutorial gets a C. I'm a beginner and it took me several passes to find the first screen you went to. Then after I got my mask set and we switched to the "Compositing" window, things went off track. I have Blender 2.76b. Anyway, my previous work from the 'Motion tracking' window did not follow me. I have a 'movie clip' input and a viewer node but no sign of my clip. And we are barely started in the video. Beginner means baby-steps.
Hmm I dont know why but my mask its not the same scale then movie. I used your move to learn and when i try ,my mask its much smaller then move i try use fixed and scale it but its not look good. Have any idea what i do wrong? :)
Thanks for taking the time to share this! I made sure to watch the ads so you'd get something back for your kindness. I learned a great deal - one wish-comment. There were several times when you didn't say which shortcut key you were using to make things happen on the screen. For example, moving and rotating the mask - I went out and searched the internet for some time without much success and finally thought, I'll just watch ahead and hope he tells us later. Sure enough - you did go on later to say "A" for select all and "G" for move. Then, still later, you explained "R" for rotate. I know those shortcuts are probably so second nature to you that you likely don't even think about doing it anymore, but it would be a HUGE help if you'd make sure to let us in on those shortcuts too. Again - thanks so very much for these tutorials!!!
How did you get the video to show up in the background of the compositioning window? it sounded like you said Ctrl + Shift, but that did not work for me. Thanks!
Open the "timeline". Then click on the red dot, which activates automatic keyframes. Then select at the key ring "Loc Rot Scale". This should do the trick.
Let's suppose I wouldn't put an image in the background and just leave it like this. Would I end up with something like a png, but instead of an image I'd have a video w/o background?
Are you using any Plugins? because your Keying-Node has WAY more options than mine, one of them is Matte inputs (I only have a Matte output) and Feathering.
My mask dosn't work. i came here for help with that.... UUGHHH. for some reason the color on my mask wont show up nomater what i do! It just says black!
NEED HELP FAST, I have deadlines to hit I need help, I did everything like you did, but when I go to render the video, it renders at the 1:1 scale (like you showed first before you hit V to zoom out). This crops out much of the shot, WHAT DO I DO?!?
any help here? When I put the invert node between the mask and garbage matte node it just removes the character entirley rather then just removing whats around him.
Maybe you can help me. If I have a jet black object made in blender render, with a green background (nice one for chroma keying). I get white lines around the edge of the object. I can see them before rendering in compositing mode. Is there a problem with 3d images working with a green screen that you may have come across? If you have time it takes like only 5min. to set up and see the problem. Thanks for any help ahead of time.
Hi, you don't need to render objects with a green screen, there's a render option to render with a transparent background, for cycles under properties tab - film - transparent. For Internal its Properties - shading - alpha tab - transparent. This is the proper way to render something with an alpha channel, no need to render a green screen. :)
When I select a file, it doesn't show up on screen! (I really don't know how to do anything in Blender yet, so I'm probably doing something wrong.) Any suggestions? I really need some help.
Thankyou for responding so quickly!! I had my actor jump off of a bed that had a green-screen over it. We just need to key in our behind footage. With the nodes I'm already using, what would be the nodes I want to use to key out the green and bring in my background image?
YFTS ! If your shot was locked down on a tripod, you can just use an Alpha Over node and connect your character after green screened to the bottom socket, and your background to the top socket.
he never said a lot of things because he was using keyboard shortcuts and never once told us what he was pressing......#FNANNOYING for a begginers video...
To everyone who doesn't know how to change the background, here's how I do it:1. Add in an alpha over node.2. Connect the keying node's image value to the lower image value of the alpha over.3. Check the box: Convert Premul.4. Add in an image node, and add an image.5. Connect the new image node's image to the top image value of the alpha over node.
Hi Jeremy, I inserted the background as you explained but when I made the final animation in quicktime h264 the background did not appear, do you know what could be happening? Thanks!
I'm really stuck on when you are keying the image I cannot get it to make the image go big so I get select the darker colour(I'm at 5:17 for reference)
As far as I know, there's no way to save an movie file with an alpha channel, so what I usually do is when I'm happy with my Chroma Key, Is I'll save a PNG image sequence out choosing RGBA so there's an alpha channel, then I can just use that sequence like any other texture with an alpha.
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up! - While this tutorial still works great for Blender 2.79, if you are using Blender 2.8 I have a new updated tutorial here: ruclips.net/video/5ZpGpfQjzJA/видео.html
thank you for the update
Hi mr.steve thank you tutorial it`s so easy
Bro what is the software name
MANA GANG uhh
i know Im kinda randomly asking but do anyone know of a good place to watch new series online ?
I saw this video when I was little and THIS is actually what inspired me to be a VFX artists and I'm still doing it till this day hoping to get into a studio, I doubt anyone will see this but thanks for the inspiration man:)
I saw it :D
Same
I have done a decent amount of green screening in Blender. I did not know what or how to use the garbage or core setting on the keying node.Now because of you and this excellent tutorial I do.
Thank you very much for this tutorial.
Dude really? you make all these videos that say "Blender tutorial" . Then you spend 1/2 the time talking about Adobe or something and how you have to change the keys around in blender to fit your style and be like "after affects."
You make a video (20 minutes long) on the same subject that leaves viewers scratching there head and saying "wtf". Now 6 months later your like, "thanks
Blender Steve for teaching me about green screening." Here's a free tip, to make Blender tutorial keep it about Blender (not other programs). Oh, and it helps to know what your talking about.
I didn't knew CG Geek is your online teacher, I mean you are a youtuber either?
Well you didn't tell us how to put the image in the background!
Posted this a few times already in the comments, Just connect an Alpha Over node to the end of your nodes, and connect your background image in the top slot. Voila!
CG Geek
Damn bro you replied one year later lmao
yeah
+Domo It happens. lol
Active the "Backdrop"
I've been learning more and more about blender and I had no idea it could do this. This is awesome.
I don't have a computer
Edit, it’s been 3 years I have a computer now
Kinemaster on android and ios
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Hi
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Use iMovie
What software do you use? I'm new at this.
Oh girl this video got me shooketh because girl I tried to make this video, it didn't work, but girl I persisted, look at me now. I am Beyonce of all technology. I liked this video so I put a ring on it.
OOooo gurllllllll the same thing happened to me, what a C-O-I-N-C-I-D-E-N-C-E
Hay gente que poniendo cualquier tipo de excusa pretende cobrarle a la gente mucho dinero por enseñarles a manejar Blender....aunque no sean en mi idioma sus vídeos, los entiendo mas o menos...Gracias por enseñarnos libremente a manejar Blender de manera profesional.
Stupid question, but... I've been trying to render a greenscreened clip while still keeping other clips in the video editor timeline... is that possible? I feel like I'm overlooking something really obvious...
Hey CG! I know it's a bit late to comment so I hope you see this but I don't know how to connect my background image to alpha over to add a backdrop. I put the green screen vid on the bottom and the backdrop pic on the top after doing everything in your tutorial. It won't work so please help. :)
This is the best keying tutorial (thanks for saying hotkeys)!
Very useful. I had been struggling with green screen and had no idea that this quality was possible. (I had been running the raw footage directly into a green keying node and couldn't figure out why there was no 'garbage matte' node available.) I had no idea that you could create a tracking matte as a mask.
So many hidden places in Blender.
At 5:7; after selecting key color if I click on image nothing is happening. My footage is 960*540 @ 23 fps & I have filled the resolution and fps properly in the beginning, what is the problem?
how do to add the picture and falling down and placement setting plz tell .. i am new in blender i need ur help plz reply
Anyone know where I can find free HD clips of green screen tracking scenes with an actor for practicing? Would love some of a character just walking down a camera or with some stable camera moves around the person.
www.hollywoodcamerawork.com/green-screen-plates.html
Thank you for the footage !
i use it for a little compositing of my own on Nuke non-commercial.
Video isn't playing and I can't delete the render layer for some reason, Beginner so still learning things.
Wait is this only in a pro version?
Hi sir according to you which animation software is best "MAYA" or "Blender" and why?
Timing is totally messed up on my clip in the "Movie Node". My 10 second clip is 40x as long (almost 7 minutes). Same clip in the video sequencer runs correctly at 10 seconds.
Hey how did you make the background move with the mask?
Motion tracking
me trying to learn vfx.So here are some TIPS..
😅!!!
how do you put an image/animation as a backround?
Exactly what I was looking for
Sweet, lovely and beautiful. I can't wait to start using it.
I followed your steps but when I click the "Animation" button, it just renders the movie clip.. how do you animate the result to a video?
You have to connect it to a compositing nod
You have to connect it to a compositing node
Do I need a computer to do this?
Thank you teacher
Problem is adding the background. I have a character walking through a room (which I made in Blender), and finding it hell to remove the green screen and make him walk realistically in the room.
hey is it possible to rig my body motion into a animation rig that i could apply to say a Giant mesh or something say if i was holding a toy sword and swinging it on a video and wanted a sword mesh i made in blender to follow the sword motions from my video how could this be done? sorry for any awful spelling ;)
your children are wholesome
If the green screen you want to remove is an extra helping you in a morph suit (say you're doing a martial arts battle and want to look like you're jumping on air), then can you use the whole clip as a mask to do the same? (Using a still shot of your scene without the actors as the fill)
please help, blender crashes when ever i render/composite. it works fine when using the viewer node though. it crashes even when there is no other nodes other than the ones necessary, which is just the 5 used in this tutorial. is there another way to do all the stuff you did in this tutorial using the channel key node instead of the keying node?
I'm having troubles trying to press CTRL+SHIFT to add the viewer node. I press the buttons but it still doesn't pop up. Any ideas?
try cntr + shift + left click
Great video, short yet detailed enough to give a good idea of how to work with masks and chromakeying. Question though --- is there a way of using the compositor nodes for keying in conjunction with the video sequence editor?
Hi CG GEEK, pls is it possible to light up a greenscreen to generate shadow or is it possible to get the shadow of a green screen object when u light it in blender? Thanks
hey brow, I need a help, I'm looking to creating a stop motion animation with toys, but I was thinking use green screen on stop motion then use another software to create the background scenery, so how could I take stop motion animation in green screen and import to blender the in blender create the background scenery to stop motion animation, so le't try simplify the question, take the stop motion animation done in green screen import to the blender then in the blender create the scenery, could help me how could I do it please, thanks.
PS: I would like to know what tools on the blender I should use to create the scenery for the stop motion animation ( the stop motion would be made using toys, like spiderman, super man etc....
Mono Background
here is the video that I did with your footage and great tutorial
if there is some mistake about publishing please tell me
for anybody who cannot key the man
please see your fps that set in render property
select the one that match the video
for this video I set at 29.97 (so I got this problem in the first time)
so I will try more and practice on my own work later
respected
Which software is this please
How did you change the background?!?! How did you put the mask in a scene made in blender!?!?!? PLEASE make a tutorial on this!
Just connect an Alpha Over node to the end of your nodes, and connect your background image in the top slo
cool but Keylight in AE is still more handy
Hi small thought of camera tracking. I saw somebody using HTC Vive Tracker device to track the realworld camera to move virtual camera in Unreal Engine. I wonder if it is also possible in blender. Can you attach HTC Vive Tracker to your camera which you use on greenscreen and record its moves to use this for virtual camera position in blender?
Okay, from the other comments, it's clear that this tutorial gets a C. I'm a beginner and it took me several passes to find the first screen you went to. Then after I got my mask set and we switched to the "Compositing" window, things went off track. I have Blender 2.76b.
Anyway, my previous work from the 'Motion tracking' window did not follow me. I have a 'movie clip' input and a viewer node but no sign of my clip. And we are barely started in the video. Beginner means baby-steps.
spek ram 2Gb Dual Core pc ,work or no
can anyone tell me a free vfx software
it should be good
Hei SteVe, wie kann ich ab 5:09 eine Transparenz bekommen? Respektive warum geht es bei mir nicht? Gibt es da einen häufigen Fehler? Danke.
Sind Sie mit der neuesten Blender? Und haben Sie Ihre Keying Knoten zu Knoten verbunden Ihre Zuschauer?
Hmm I dont know why but my mask its not the same scale then movie. I used your move to learn and when i try ,my mask its much smaller then move i try use fixed and scale it but its not look good. Have any idea what i do wrong? :)
I am interest ..learning...
Very good, Thank you man !
Is there a tutorial how to compare the footage with the animated background (reflections, ambient occlusion etc.)?
Thanks for taking the time to share this! I made sure to watch the ads so you'd get something back for your kindness. I learned a great deal - one wish-comment. There were several times when you didn't say which shortcut key you were using to make things happen on the screen.
For example, moving and rotating the mask - I went out and searched the internet for some time without much success and finally thought, I'll just watch ahead and hope he tells us later. Sure enough - you did go on later to say "A" for select all and "G" for move. Then, still later, you explained "R" for rotate. I know those shortcuts are probably so second nature to you that you likely don't even think about doing it anymore, but it would be a HUGE help if you'd make sure to let us in on those shortcuts too.
Again - thanks so very much for these tutorials!!!
How did you get the video to show up in the background of the compositioning window? it sounded like you said Ctrl + Shift, but that did not work for me. Thanks!
Yup, Control + shift clicking the node you want, also make sure you have backdrop turned on.
Well, I'm a beginner, and I can't understand how did you get the background to move the same way that the normal video moved?
You have to motion track it first. There are a lot of good tutorials on youtube about that ;)
How do you hide the green screen? I click on the key color and then the darkest spot but nothing happens. Also i am doing this on a pc not a mac.
Hey bro...
I need a very basic vfx software to start with...
Which software will run without graphic cards
Please help me ...
How do you make the background, do you have a good n00b tutorial on that you can point to?
Great work, and saved me on one of my green screen issues! Thanks!
whenever i move from cor matt to garbage matte it shows nothing plz help
Blender 2.71 automatic keyframing isn't working for me. When I move my mesh, it's permanent throughout the video.
Open the "timeline". Then click on the red dot, which activates automatic keyframes. Then select at the key ring "Loc Rot Scale". This should do the trick.
Let's suppose I wouldn't put an image in the background and just leave it like this. Would I end up with something like a png, but instead of an image I'd have a video w/o background?
Are you using any Plugins? because your Keying-Node has WAY more options than mine, one of them is Matte inputs (I only have a Matte output) and Feathering.
My mask dosn't work. i came here for help with that.... UUGHHH. for some reason the color on my mask wont show up nomater what i do! It just says black!
+Pierce Burbank mine too ;n;
+Pierce Burbank change the "screen size" option in the mask node .
Did you try checking the 'Use Alpha' box on your viewer and/or composite?
Thank you
NEED HELP FAST, I have deadlines to hit
I need help, I did everything like you did, but when I go to render the video, it renders at the 1:1 scale (like you showed first before you hit V to zoom out). This crops out much of the shot, WHAT DO I DO?!?
Use a scale node on your footage, set it to scale it to the Render size, this ways the aspect ratio will be the same as the render settings.
CG Geek thank you so much, you're a life saver
i watch your video till the end thank you
any help here? When I put the invert node between the mask and garbage matte node it just removes the character entirley rather then just removing whats around him.
Does it work without the invert node? maybe you don't need it.
Just fixed it! I didn't know I had to tick the "RGB" in the invert node. It was unticked by default. Thanks for trying to help though!
Thanks man, saved my life!!
Great work. Keep the videos coming.
how do you add a background image?
Just connect an Alpha Over node to the end of your nodes, and connect your background image in the top slot. Voila!
MasterMind lol this fucking guy
MasterMind copy and paste haahha
Maybe you can help me. If I have a jet black object made in blender render, with a green background (nice one for chroma keying). I get white lines around the edge of the object. I can see them before rendering in compositing mode. Is there a problem with 3d images working with a green screen that you may have come across?
If you have time it takes like only 5min. to set up and see the problem. Thanks for any help ahead of time.
Hi, you don't need to render objects with a green screen, there's a render option to render with a transparent background, for cycles under properties tab - film - transparent. For Internal its Properties - shading - alpha tab - transparent. This is the proper way to render something with an alpha channel, no need to render a green screen. :)
Blender SteVe
Thanks, you the MAN!
the footage in the link is not full :(
the chromakeying effect works terrible in my final result. help?
why when i put the the video its all black?
When I select a file, it doesn't show up on screen! (I really don't know how to do anything in Blender yet, so I'm probably doing something wrong.) Any suggestions? I really need some help.
Are you talking about selecting a video file? try converting your footage to a different file format, I believe Mp4 will work.
It worked! Thanks so much. :)
for anyone wanting to add a background image render your green screen part then use the video editor to overlay on a back ground image
Nice topics
effing great! thanks!
Hey, can you import videos from final cut pro, into blender? If you could tell me how, that would be great, thanks!
Very helpful, and I really like the short film
Thankyou for responding so quickly!!
I had my actor jump off of a bed that had a green-screen over it. We just need to key in our behind footage. With the nodes I'm already using, what would be the nodes I want to use to key out the green and bring in my background image?
YFTS ! If your shot was locked down on a tripod, you can just use an Alpha Over node and connect your character after green screened to the bottom socket, and your background to the top socket.
and how do we add in the movie afterwards???
Just connect an Alpha Over node to the end of your nodes, and connect your background image in the top slot. Voila!
Why when we put the first mask into the garbage my whole person doesn't disappear just a chunk of him does?
Sounds like a scale problem, make sure that the video you masked, and the footage in the compositor are the exact same size.
my color pick doens't work, it picks black color
He never said how to actually change the scene
he never said a lot of things because he was using keyboard shortcuts and never once told us what he was pressing......#FNANNOYING for a begginers video...
Yeah
Which software do you use to do it?
you said to press ctrl+shift but it doesnt do anything
To everyone who doesn't know how to change the background, here's how I do it:1. Add in an alpha over node.2. Connect the keying node's image value to the lower image value of the alpha over.3. Check the box: Convert Premul.4. Add in an image node, and add an image.5. Connect the new image node's image to the top image value of the alpha over node.
Hi Jeremy, I inserted the background as you explained but when I made the final animation in quicktime h264 the background did not appear, do you know what could be happening? Thanks!
I dont know what I must do if I did that masking. How I do the effekt that he fell of this place
Blender wont render my finished video. Any ideas on how I should fix this?
With normal video editing it works fine just not my chroma keyed clip
Make sure the final clip is attached to a composite node.
Cool video! Have you tut about how you made video at the and? I am wondering how to positioning 3d wall on place of real wall etc...
when I use the mask, it doesn't delete stuff outside the mask
can someone help me out?
which software did you use ?
how did you change the background.... its not in your tut !!!!!! :( Help plz
+R-Vegas use alpha over node and a image node and combain them
you are just teaching us of masking but. what about background ?how do you change it?
I'm really stuck on when you are keying the image I cannot get it to make the image go big so I get select the darker colour(I'm at 5:17 for reference)
V makes the video smaller, Alt+V will enlarge.
And with Alt and middle mouse button you can move it
Very cool
how to save the video? after i finish masking it can i view it and save? as a video file?
As far as I know, there's no way to save an movie file with an alpha channel, so what I usually do is when I'm happy with my Chroma Key, Is I'll save a PNG image sequence out choosing RGBA so there's an alpha channel, then I can just use that sequence like any other texture with an alpha.
Blender SteVe Thank you sir ^^ please make a tutorial about it coz im just a newbie ^^
thanks for the tutorial! will you be doing more vfx tutorials in the future?
which program so use please blender
does this haft to be a green screen or can you use say like a blue sheet?
Blue works great too!
you are a genius