ATTENTION EVERYONE: IF YOUR RENDER HAS A COLOR BACKGROUND INSTEAD OF TRANSPARENCY (in this case it would be black as that is the set color in the alpha over node in the video) OR NO COLOR/ALPHA AT ALL (you see the green screen) MAKE SURE THAT YOUR COMPOSITE NODE HAS "USE ALPHA" CHECKED OFF!!!! Sometimes, blender is weird and doesn't check it off by default when you add it or hit "use nodes".
@@chj.schwarz hi, why cant i simply tell blender " yo every pixel that is green, no matter how dark or light, make it transparent" as an object shading node, than we could simply import greenscreen videos as planes, make green transparent and done, no extra step needed anymore, i dont understand how in over 10 years of blender developpment, nobody ever thaught about doing that, its like so obvious that a lot would need this...
Needed this sir thank you i was busy with my exams didnt made any project but gonna work on some vfx stuff like avengers portal graphics and this gonna help me
Ryan, thank you so much for taking the time to share your knowledge and experience. I am a complete novice to video editing and wanted to do something with green screen and this has helped me immensely.
2:23 Slight correction. Getting rid of blur is very important for green screen but I dont recommend telling people to use a higher frame rate. That will unnecessarily increase workload because you have more frames correct, track and render. You should instead use a higher shutter speed. You will get the crisp edges the higher you go without add frames.
Huge huge appreciation for your labor in making this video. This may build my basic on green screen using. I will for sure help transmuting the knowledge.
Ryan thank you for making this video. You made it very easy to follow. It was my first time using Blender and making a video. This was very helpful! God bless you and keep making great videos!
@@RyanKingArt may I request you to do a tutorial on this kind of space animation? m.ruclips.net/video/9otaURdkMos/видео.html I'm new to Blender! If not, could you please point out what I need to learn to achieve it?.
When i render, the image without the green screen (transparent) only shows on the view node. *Edit: I deleted the video in the Video Editing tab and it worked. Apparently Blender puts Video Editing sequences above Compositing in rendering priority
Thanks bro, this helped alot! btw, the shirt I was wearing, had a slight greenish tint, so some part of the shirt gets green screened too...and if I try to mask, it wont work, as the shirt is constantly moving. how can I like make the mask move with it though?
@@RyanKingArt awesome! I am looking to get into this after being inspire d by your vfx video series. Do we necessarily need to have advanced use of Blender modelling to begin a foray into VFX?
Dude thank you so much for this extensive tutorial! This helped a lot :) I used Runway (an online browser video editor) to basically rotobrush myself from a video and created an accurate greenscreen, then I went into Blender and deleted the greenscreen by keying. But since the green screen is artificially created, it was super easy to take it out without any problems. I wonder if there's a way to bypass runway completely and create an artificial greenscreen in blender easily. (I want to be able to cut objects or moving people out of any video and us it as if it's recorded in front of a greenscreen. But for now this works!
I get now why editing greenscreen footage takes so long. i got a 2 something minute clip and it takes me like 30 min to render it all :v and this is just a small part of my like 20 min long full video.. by the gods
Edit: Alright so i got through it. to answer my questions down below, 1. i just removed the original video and it still worked so *shrug*. 2.I had to manually go into files and drag over the files because the built in blender file window thing didn't want to load it properly. and thus it worked. 3. i could reverse them back to normal in the video editor so it was fine. Final thoughts: (man this turned into an essay wth) I am sure this is a pros way of doing it and needs heavy tweaking for every project as my recording has like a white aura and the thinner parts of my longer hair on the sides are white inbetween slightly. Now usually i have used shotcut to edit my videos and the greenscreen there is subpar so i prefer this over it for sure. it's just a shame that currently the inbetween hair greenscreen is still kind of dog water. Probably on my skill that one. 1. a question. at 20:00 ish you add in the greenscreened frames over the original video, but you never remove the old video and just keep the original audio. is there a reason for this? or was it just so you could do the fade from the original non greenscreened video to the greenscreened one? If i don't want to do that does it matter if i keep the original video? 2. also for some reason at around 12:25 when you open the frames into masking. while in the frames file like a third of my frames are not showing like the picture of the file is just blank. and when i select all and open them in masking. there is just nothing there and the frame counter on the top right just says 1/2 instead of 842.. also the file name in the middle top says 0841.png even though i have 842 frames. And yours says 01... 3. third thing. when saving my image sequence "transparent frames" they for some reason got saved in reverse so when i load them into the other video they play in reverse lol how odd.
Very cool! I can remove the green screen and then exported it as video instead of image sequence. I used QuickTime as video container and QT role as the codec. It works and I can see the transparency in other VSEs, but not Blender (I did have it set as alpha over) any thoughts?
Yes, you could do that if you wanted too. I just prefer to export it as an image sequence. If your rendering it out to a video, and it crashes while rendering, then you will need to re-render the entire thing. Also I like rendering to frames, so that I can have more control with it in Blender's video editor. But yes, you can render it directly to a video file.
can I, and if so how do i render it at the end as a video with alpha so i can just import as image as planes into blender? thank you for another great tutorial by the way!
I know there is a render option for that, but I don't remember what it is. you can look it up online though. or you could just render to PNG files, and then use an image sequence.
Thank you for that video, can you tell me what i need to look if i want to use green moving object ( for exemple a green shirt ) , i that situation the "green screen" are dynamic compare to static green screen like in this tutorial.
Thank you for the great tutorial! Quick question: Is it possible to exclude certain areas from being removed? If i have e.g. a person with a green shirt on it, is it possible to make it this way that the greenscreen is being removed but not the green shirt?
Thank you for such a valuable tutorial. I face an issue in masking. While I move the playhead forward in the timeline to ensure that no part of my subject is out of masking, after a certain period my RAM runs out and the blender is crashed. Can you suggest how this issue can be be dealt?
HELP! when I paste the video frames in, they play in reverse for no reason. I tried reversing frames, but forgot that for some reason rever frames wont work for me on blender- its very broken.
Is there any way to do this without using the compositor? The power of the compositor is great for serious VFX work with all the other features it has, but for instances in videos where I want to just slap a green screen meme or effect on top, it adds a lot of overhead to my workflow.
Hello Ryan, how are you doing, I hope you are well, it turns out that when I want to remove the background when rendering, the frames still appear with the green background, I don't know why, but that happens to me, could you tell me what I am doing wrong?
Good Job. Did You Try Blender Armory 3D Game Engine? My target is making real time green screen composition ICFVX. Could You make something in real time rendering on blender game engine??? Challenge ??? Familiar FX like in Unreal Engine...
sometime I think it would be cool to try out the Armory Game Engine, and maybe even make some tutorials on it. But right now I have very little experience with it.
idk why my image dissapears when i put the offsett to 0... and the green background disappears but somehow the background renders as black even tho i got the RGBA file format color
nvm i found out that if that happens, you just have to confirm that the viewer and composite nodes got the "use alpha" box active, and the alpha over node "convert premultiplied" box active too ... hope this helps if someone is having that issue too
Is there anyway to use a blend file ( i.e before that file is rendered ), as an image sequence into the sequencer? It would be wild if that works then, I could feed the file into itself.
Idk what happens with mine but for some reason it only renders one image i have the image box on image sequence and render on animation can you help Edit: figured out the issue it is rendering the entire video but just slowly so it made me thought it was just rendering one
Hello, I am studying compositing. Is there a reason why I am compositing after converting the video I took into png? It's a video, but why do you convert it to png and compositing it?
Hi! i had the same issue... you just have to confirm that the viewer and composite nodes got the "use alpha" box active, and the alpha over node "convert premultiplied" box active too. And just to be sure, i went to render properties> cycles > film > transparent... maybe its not related but just in case you are using a 3d space
The other thing is, i cant change the images, i see only the first picture with "image" nod, if im setting to other frame, it still staying on the first image :S
make sure you have the viewer node plugged up so that it updates the background. if you have the mask selected, you can press G, to grab and move the mask.
@@RyanKingArt Thx bro, yeah iv found it, but it dosnt does effect on the image. I can move it, scale it, but it not changing the cut on the image :S Im so noob xD , but this blender sometimes destroying my nervsystem if i must hours to play to find a solution.
Thanks for the great tutorial Ryan:-) I'm limited to Blender 2.92 because my computer hates ( doesn't work properly beyond Windows 7 ). Do you have a node tree that works for Blender 2.92? Second, I went to Gumtree and clicked " I want this " but it seems nothing happens, or it's so slow as to seem that way:-? Any help would be greatly appreciated🙂 tim #bgreen
Hmm, this green screen tutorial should work in 2.92 as well. Did you try it in 2.92? on Gumroad, you have to put in a number amount first, so just put in 0, and the click on the, I want this, Button.
@@MrCreeper5906 I believe that originally this technique worked only with a green background and/or that at the very least, worked the best with a green background. Now I believe that it can be done with any color but green is the color used most often.
@@josephbreidenbach4589 Yeah, and I think it also depends on our skin color and the color of our dress, so that it can be differentiated from the rest of the colors 🤔
The png files still had the greenscreen when rendering. WTF did I do wrong? The video in the composite tab viewer removed the greenscreen, but the render doesn't. I clicked the RGBA. Ahhh.
@@RyanKingArt Aww, I appreciate you replying. I was just screaming into the void lol. I'll check all the nodes and watch the video again. Sorry to waste your time, man. If I can't figure it out, I'll download the set from your gumroad and try to shoot you a few bucks or let a ton of the minute plus ads play out a bunch. :D Edit: I really feel bad for wasting your time. I’ll try to figure it out before I complain. It wasn’t your fault. I hope you have a great day and thank you again for all the content.
hey ryan there's a problem for my try. whenever i render the image, it won't budge the nodes and will render the same frame without any differences..what do i do?
ATTENTION EVERYONE: IF YOUR RENDER HAS A COLOR BACKGROUND INSTEAD OF TRANSPARENCY (in this case it would be black as that is the set color in the alpha over node in the video) OR NO COLOR/ALPHA AT ALL (you see the green screen) MAKE SURE THAT YOUR COMPOSITE NODE HAS "USE ALPHA" CHECKED OFF!!!! Sometimes, blender is weird and doesn't check it off by default when you add it or hit "use nodes".
Ryan King pls pin lots of people are having this problem even i was stuck on this for like 2 days
still green screen
How?
This is the most succinct and comprehensive green screen tutorial for Blender. 10/10 as usual! Thank you my king! 👑
Haha, thanks for watching! (King is just my last name though) 🙂
@@RyanKingArt of course, my liege
@@chj.schwarz hi, why cant i simply tell blender " yo every pixel that is green, no matter how dark or light, make it transparent" as an object shading node, than we could simply import greenscreen videos as planes, make green transparent and done, no extra step needed anymore, i dont understand how in over 10 years of blender developpment, nobody ever thaught about doing that, its like so obvious that a lot would need this...
I had to donate, we need to protect this guy at all cost!! Thank you soooo mich
thanks!
You become one ,who give us the most tutorials for Blender..
Thank you. Wish you big,big channel
Thank you so much 😀
simple, clean, fast and useful.
Thanks!
Wow, didn`t expect, that it is even more complicated than AE.
Needed this sir thank you i was busy with my exams didnt made any project but gonna work on some vfx stuff like avengers portal graphics and this gonna help me
Cool! Thanks for watching.
DID it?
I was looking for tutorials for getting started with green screen for my VFX project. Amazing I found one this good 💖
Hope its helpful!
Your channel is honestly a onestop shop for all things blender, this is better than any other channel out there
Glad you like my videos!
best green screen tutorial I've seen for intro level !
glad you liked it!
Ryan, thank you so much for taking the time to share your knowledge and experience. I am a complete novice to video editing and wanted to do something with green screen and this has helped me immensely.
Glad it was helpful!
Oh! Okay! This looks different and awesome! I'm looking forward to checking this out!
Thanks for sharing Ryan.
I hope you have a great weekend! 😃
Thanks! Yeah, I don't do VFX tutorials very much. : )
always coming back to your video for green screen! Thank you so much for all the precise tutorial full of useful tips Ryan!
glad it helps! thanks for watching!
Congratulation Ryan, it´s a very good tutorial about green screen.
glad you liked it!
Thank you for showing me how to do this!
welcome!
Thank you for video. I found this tutorial insightful for making green screen videos.
glad it helped!
thank you so much! liked and subscribed for the algorithm
Thanks!
2:23 Slight correction. Getting rid of blur is very important for green screen but I dont recommend telling people to use a higher frame rate. That will unnecessarily increase workload because you have more frames correct, track and render. You should instead use a higher shutter speed. You will get the crisp edges the higher you go without add frames.
Ahh ok. thanks for sharing!
OMG!! THANK YOU IM CRYING.... BEEN STUCK FOR DAYS!
glad it helped!
Cool! It's time to be the weather boy:)
Lol. : )
Awesome. It seemed difficult to get an actual answer for this. Worked perfectly.
Glad it helped!
Huge huge appreciation for your labor in making this video. This may build my basic on green screen using. I will for sure help transmuting the knowledge.
Thanks! Glad you found it helpful!
thx very much, my 1st time trying to do this and ur video made it possible.
Glad It helped!
Epik video 🥶 :) all the best less go gor 40k
Thanks! Yes, almost to 40K!
Life saver
glad it helped!
Amazing 😍😍
Thanks!
Very valuable video, keep it up
Thank you very much 😃
Ryan thank you for making this video. You made it very easy to follow. It was my first time using Blender and making a video. This was very helpful! God bless you and keep making great videos!
Thank you very much!
Very nice tutorial, Ryan... on every level. Thank you!
thanks for watching!
Great video
thanks!
Very helpful thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks man!
you're welcome!
Lovely! Thank you!
you're welcome!
your video is unique thank sir
thanks for watching!
Dude, thank you!!
You're welcome!
@@RyanKingArt may I request you to do a tutorial on this kind of space animation?
m.ruclips.net/video/9otaURdkMos/видео.html
I'm new to Blender! If not, could you please point out what I need to learn to achieve it?.
When i render, the image without the green screen (transparent) only shows on the view node.
*Edit: I deleted the video in the Video Editing tab and it worked. Apparently Blender puts Video Editing sequences above Compositing in rendering priority
Ahh ok. Glad you fixed it!
@leomass I had this exact problem and i couldn't find why it didn't render properly, thanks !
Nice
Thank you!
Well that is something new...i guess there's a lot of secrets in blender.
Yeah, thanks! 😃
Thanks bro, this helped alot!
btw, the shirt I was wearing, had a slight greenish tint, so some part of the shirt gets green screened too...and if I try to mask, it wont work, as the shirt is constantly moving. how can I like make the mask move with it though?
magnific
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Sweet!
Thanks!
@@RyanKingArt Is plain green cotton fabric ok for this?
@@gerdsfargen6687 I think that should work.
@@gerdsfargen6687 As long as its a consistent color, then it should work.
@@RyanKingArt awesome! I am looking to get into this after being inspire d by your vfx video series.
Do we necessarily need to have advanced use of Blender modelling to begin a foray into VFX?
Dude thank you so much for this extensive tutorial! This helped a lot :)
I used Runway (an online browser video editor) to basically rotobrush myself from a video and created an accurate greenscreen, then I went into Blender and deleted the greenscreen by keying. But since the green screen is artificially created, it was super easy to take it out without any problems.
I wonder if there's a way to bypass runway completely and create an artificial greenscreen in blender easily. (I want to be able to cut objects or moving people out of any video and us it as if it's recorded in front of a greenscreen. But for now this works!
Hmm, yeah I'm not exactly sure. Thanks for watching!
I get now why editing greenscreen footage takes so long. i got a 2 something minute clip and it takes me like 30 min to render it all :v and this is just a small part of my like 20 min long full video.. by the gods
Edit: Alright so i got through it. to answer my questions down below, 1. i just removed the original video and it still worked so *shrug*.
2.I had to manually go into files and drag over the files because the built in blender file window thing didn't want to load it properly. and thus it worked.
3. i could reverse them back to normal in the video editor so it was fine.
Final thoughts: (man this turned into an essay wth) I am sure this is a pros way of doing it and needs heavy tweaking for every project as my recording has like a white aura and the thinner parts of my longer hair on the sides are white inbetween slightly.
Now usually i have used shotcut to edit my videos and the greenscreen there is subpar so i prefer this over it for sure. it's just a shame that currently the inbetween hair greenscreen is still kind of dog water. Probably on my skill that one.
1. a question. at 20:00 ish you add in the greenscreened frames over the original video, but you never remove the old video and just keep the original audio. is there a reason for this? or was it just so you could do the fade from the original non greenscreened video to the greenscreened one? If i don't want to do that does it matter if i keep the original video?
2. also for some reason at around 12:25 when you open the frames into masking. while in the frames file like a third of my frames are not showing like the picture of the file is just blank. and when i select all and open them in masking. there is just nothing there and the frame counter on the top right just says 1/2 instead of 842.. also the file name in the middle top says 0841.png even though i have 842 frames. And yours says 01...
3. third thing. when saving my image sequence "transparent frames" they for some reason got saved in reverse so when i load them into the other video they play in reverse lol how odd.
I have tried this tutorial really nice
I have used Lenovo t430 laptop while rendering 6time my laptop goes off and on 😂😂
Oh ok.
Very cool! I can remove the green screen and then exported it as video instead of image sequence. I used QuickTime as video container and QT role as the codec. It works and I can see the transparency in other VSEs, but not Blender (I did have it set as alpha over) any thoughts?
Yes, you could do that if you wanted too. I just prefer to export it as an image sequence. If your rendering it out to a video, and it crashes while rendering, then you will need to re-render the entire thing. Also I like rendering to frames, so that I can have more control with it in Blender's video editor. But yes, you can render it directly to a video file.
can I, and if so how do i render it at the end as a video with alpha so i can just import as image as planes into blender? thank you for another great tutorial by the way!
I know there is a render option for that, but I don't remember what it is. you can look it up online though. or you could just render to PNG files, and then use an image sequence.
Thank you for that video, can you tell me what i need to look if i want to use green moving object ( for exemple a green shirt ) , i that situation the "green screen" are dynamic compare to static green screen like in this tutorial.
Thank you for the great tutorial! Quick question: Is it possible to exclude certain areas from being removed? If i have e.g. a person with a green shirt on it, is it possible to make it this way that the greenscreen is being removed but not the green shirt?
Yes, you can make a mask around the shirt, and then use the mask in the compositor to keep it in the shot.
Excellent as always bro, it won't let me save it in a list I have of tutorials, do you know maybe why?
click on the little three dots button under the video, then click save
@@RyanKingArt It wouldn't let me on the PC, thanks bro, I really appreciate your videos
Thank you for such a valuable tutorial.
I face an issue in masking. While I move the playhead forward in the timeline to ensure that no part of my subject is out of masking, after a certain period my RAM runs out and the blender is crashed. Can you suggest how this issue can be be dealt?
Hmm, not sure. How much ram do you have?
@@RyanKingArt 16 GB and I was trying to work with a 4k video.
HELP! when I paste the video frames in, they play in reverse for no reason. I tried reversing frames, but forgot that for some reason rever frames wont work for me on blender- its very broken.
Is there any way to do this without using the compositor? The power of the compositor is great for serious VFX work with all the other features it has, but for instances in videos where I want to just slap a green screen meme or effect on top, it adds a lot of overhead to my workflow.
make the setup one time as a generic file, then every time you want to use it just swap out the video source and change frame durations.
Hello Ryan, how are you doing, I hope you are well, it turns out that when I want to remove the background when rendering, the frames still appear with the green background, I don't know why, but that happens to me, could you tell me what I am doing wrong?
Good Job. Did You Try Blender Armory 3D Game Engine? My target is making real time green screen composition ICFVX. Could You make something in real time rendering on blender game engine??? Challenge ??? Familiar FX like in Unreal Engine...
sometime I think it would be cool to try out the Armory Game Engine, and maybe even make some tutorials on it. But right now I have very little experience with it.
can you show without converting into frames please
it just requires more time sometimes i only want to do with video but i could not find a way
idk why my image dissapears when i put the offsett to 0... and the green background disappears but somehow the background renders as black even tho i got the RGBA file format color
nvm i found out that if that happens, you just have to confirm that the viewer and composite nodes got the "use alpha" box active, and the alpha over node "convert premultiplied" box active too ... hope this helps if someone is having that issue too
For me all the pixabay green screen videos said "video temporarily unavailable" when trying to download them. It could be a temporary issue.
yeah its probably just a problem with pixabay's servers.
Is there anyway to use a blend file ( i.e before that file is rendered ), as an image sequence into the sequencer? It would be wild if that works then, I could feed the file into itself.
hmm, not that I know of.
i have still green screen, even though i did everything in this video what he said
Hola saludame crak
Hello
I had the same exact node setup but i still keep getting a green screen
Sorry its not working, I don't know why
@@RyanKingArt ah its alright
Idk what happens with mine but for some reason it only renders one image i have the image box on image sequence and render on animation can you help
Edit: figured out the issue it is rendering the entire video but just slowly so it made me thought it was just rendering one
And selected all images for the image box
Only the video options for file format works
Could you use a white screen?
I suppose you might be able to do that. But I wouldn't recommend it.
Hello, I am studying compositing. Is there a reason why I am compositing after converting the video I took into png? It's a video, but why do you convert it to png and compositing it?
because if you don't convert it to photos, you can get glitches and problems sometimes. You don't have to, but I would recommend it.
Thank you your handsome By the way, what problems can arise?
How do you move the greenscreened image in relation to the background?
You can use a Transform Node for that.
I am having an issue where my images keep rendering as a black screen
Hi! i had the same issue... you just have to confirm that the viewer and composite nodes got the "use alpha" box active, and the alpha over node "convert premultiplied" box active too. And just to be sure, i went to render properties> cycles > film > transparent... maybe its not related but just in case you are using a 3d space
Hey, thx for the tutorial. Pls help me, how to move this masking thing? Its on wrong position, but fixed and i cant move this left or right :S
Something it works stuipd, idk why...This cuts the half picture...I cant fix
The other thing is, i cant change the images, i see only the first picture with "image" nod, if im setting to other frame, it still staying on the first image :S
make sure you have the viewer node plugged up so that it updates the background.
if you have the mask selected, you can press G, to grab and move the mask.
@@RyanKingArt Thx bro, yeah iv found it, but it dosnt does effect on the image. I can move it, scale it, but it not changing the cut on the image :S Im so noob xD , but this blender sometimes destroying my nervsystem if i must hours to play to find a solution.
Thanks for the great tutorial Ryan:-)
I'm limited to Blender 2.92 because my computer hates ( doesn't work properly beyond Windows 7 ). Do you have a node tree that works for Blender 2.92? Second, I went to Gumtree and clicked " I want this " but it seems nothing happens, or it's so slow as to seem that way:-?
Any help would be greatly appreciated🙂
tim #bgreen
Hmm, this green screen tutorial should work in 2.92 as well. Did you try it in 2.92? on Gumroad, you have to put in a number amount first, so just put in 0, and the click on the, I want this, Button.
The screen just has to be green, right?
Nope, you can use any color! The color just needs to be consistent.
Oh, so the name is kinda misleading, right?! 😅
@@MrCreeper5906 Well, sort of. But most people use a green screen. Its the same process, you just use a different color to key out.
@@MrCreeper5906 I believe that originally this technique worked only with a green background and/or that at the very least, worked the best with a green background. Now I believe that it can be done with any color but green is the color used most often.
@@josephbreidenbach4589 Yeah, and I think it also depends on our skin color and the color of our dress, so that it can be differentiated from the rest of the colors 🤔
How to add blender VFX to real footage? Make a video bro
thanks for the tutorial idea 👍
There is no starting point.
:D
thanks 😀
The png files still had the greenscreen when rendering. WTF did I do wrong? The video in the composite tab viewer removed the greenscreen, but the render doesn't. I clicked the RGBA. Ahhh.
Hmm, sorry its hard for me to know what the problem is when I can't see the node setup
@@RyanKingArt Aww, I appreciate you replying. I was just screaming into the void lol. I'll check all the nodes and watch the video again. Sorry to waste your time, man. If I can't figure it out, I'll download the set from your gumroad and try to shoot you a few bucks or let a ton of the minute plus ads play out a bunch. :D
Edit: I really feel bad for wasting your time. I’ll try to figure it out before I complain. It wasn’t your fault. I hope you have a great day and thank you again for all the content.
@@nikonikosensei6682 Thanks! No problem. its totally ok. Thanks for watching, and I hope you get it figured out. : )
I did not learn how to make the green screen, just how to remove it. This is disappointing
At the end of the tutorial, I show you how to add in background footage, or images.
hey ryan there's a problem for my try. whenever i render the image, it won't budge the nodes and will render the same frame without any differences..what do i do?