Your video was the clearest of those I have seen on this topic. I was able to successfully create a videoclip of a 3D Avatar, using text-to-speech, on a green background. The avatar was then superimposed on photographic background. Well done on the tutorial!
Thanks for the video, coming from FCPXt and explaining someone how to use the mask in DaVinci was overwhelming. With your video, I was able to recreate the masking effect in a minute after watching your video. 👍🏽🙏🏽
Very helpful ... using node based editing can be extremely confusing after being used to premiere style keys and masks. you explained it very well, thank you.
Great tutorial! One additional tipp: if you use the 3D qualifier (which can be selected instead of "HSL") you can remove all green artifacts (like on your glasses) by just one klick at "despill" :-)
Nice to finally see some more tutorials on this editing package. Would love to learn how to put two videos side by side on the same screen, when I do comparison footage and how to slide left or right to show 100% of one video down to 50% with both centered side by side again.
I show the basis of what you describe in my previous Resolve video -- ruclips.net/video/TDGzWfwGgqg/видео.html --put two clips on the timeline, and apply a crop to the upper one to reveal part of the other below.
ExplainingComputers Ok thanks, I watched it before but probably should bookmark it. I watched your first one when you told us about the editing package we can get free.
In the new davinci, they have a delta keyer where you literally just drag and drop the dropper on the color you want gone and it does it for you. Its borderline magical!
The delta keyer is indeed very powerful -- and has been around in Fusion and Resolve for some time. But for a really good key, adjustments are normally needed, especially if garbage mattes are required.
@@ExplainingComputers Yeah, definitely! I actually used your method the first time I tried adopting greenscreen on my stuff. But when I stumbled on that fusion thing, I was utterly blown away.
@@stringstorm It is amazing the tools now available on the desktop. Stuff that could not be done in a TV studio not that many years ago is now available to so many people. :)
This is excellent news! :) Some people apparently struggle with DaVinci Resolve, so it is nice to hear from somebody who has taken the time to understand it -- and once you know how, it is an easy editor. :)
Chris you saved my life in the second half of this video with the power function, I thought I was going to have to do a days work again!. I am working on my first project and it is quite ambitious green screen really. Is it possible to after applying the power function to either enlarge oneself or shrink ones self? I would be super stoked if you could make a video about that? Thank you sir!
Thanks for this. You can indeed change the scale of a clip after applying a power window. However, if you scale up significantly the loss of resolution will be very evident.
So with digital magic like this, does the green screen still have to be green? Can I use a purple screen if I wish, or a screen so long as my clothes aren't the same colour? Excellent tutorials...I've only recently discovered your channel.
You can use any colour. However, because of the way most video is captured by single chip cameras, and also how most video encoded (both using an RGBG 2x2 matrix), pure green has double the vertical resolution of, say, pure blue -- so you should be able to pull a cleaner matte off green than any other colour. So it is best to use green unless --as you say -- you need to shoot green objects!
Cool video, Christopher! Could have used a green shirt this time, for the good old floating head effect! xD Which video editing software do you use regularly for your videos to do the keying?
I normally do my keying in AfterEffects, though somes Premiere -- and now sometimes Resolve. And then there is a (free) compliment to Resolve called Fusion -- that I will do a video on some time . . .
ExplainingComputers Interesting. Will be waiting for that one, then. I don't do video editing myself, except for the occasional fix when I'm ripping my old DVDs, but as a computer graphics nerd is always good to know this sort of stuff!
Most excellent. After your initial 'Resolve available free' i downloaded but the learn curve made me think ... later. But your informative, concise tutorial (as usual) have motivated me to have a play. more on Di Vinci - i'm a watcher not a reader :-) .
Outstanding video sir! I was just thinking about how to do this in some of my other software and I got the notification on my phone that you posted this video. This makes much more sense to use DaVinci. Thank you for posting this video. Do you have any information about proper lighting of the green screen?
@@ExplainingComputers sorry could you please explain me how can I reduce my green screen clip’s height and lenght? Because the editor reduces the whole clip included the video in the background, I hope you understood what I mean. Thank you so much again!
Thank you for this really informative video! :) Can you make a video about USB Killer V2.0? And what are the things we can do to protect our PCs against it? Thank you so much!
Great Video Chris. I am using either video or photographic photography every day! On the video end, I stick with Premiere Elements. It is nice to see what the other programs do out there and your video is an excellent resource to show how these things work. One of the disadvantages of PE is that you do not have full control of many of the edits, it is flexible but limited. Thanks again and have a great week! Rich
I buy the combo pack with Premiere elements and Photoshop elements. I usually wait every other year before I upgrade. Get the most bang for the buck this way. The upgrade combo pack runs me usually mid $80.00 US. I must admit on this video and the one you did a while ago about free software showed me the free versions in some incidences are very close to the Adobe product. Let us know of other free stuff you see out there, very much needed in my retirement years! Rich
Green screen needs good lighting without that you get dark shadows that don't look very good once you go to edit it. So remember good lighting makes a good green screen effect.
Hi, really like your tutorial, it's helpful. I do have a question for you if you're able to answer? When I do all the steps and key the green, the video goes all laggy. Is there something I should do to stop this? So that I can export out as a smooth running video - like yours?
Awesome Chris, thanks for sharing! I've been trying to switch to daVinci Resolve due to it's excelent price (kek) in the past few years, so it's always nice to see tutorials for it... quite a bit different from your regular Premiere/FinalCut stuff. Chroma is something I still haven't tried on it, but gives me some confidence seeing that you could use it well. The only problem I've had with it so far is the lack of support for formats - audio and video. But oh well...
I finally did the step (from premiere) to Resolve - and it's great now (and improves hugely with every new version)! For me it's even worth transcoding not supported clips...
Resolve can't read the audio of my camera, so I use my old Adobe Media Encoder CS6 for making 48kHz .wav files which can easily be linked with the original video files in Resolve. First I transcoded all source files into cineform...
Man, I wish there was a way to automate things like that better... I ran into the same problem converting audio. WappWolf has automated audio conversion but I'm not sure if it supports wav or your file format, perhaps something could be done with IfTTT. Will look into this later on, thanks for the feedback!
Very nice video. I'll be able to use this on my Raspberry PI 3? I do a lot of photography and this will be quite useful. Now I'll have to find the proper green screen against which I'll shoot my video. Thanks for sharing. Now that I've found the link to the first video, I shall view it next.
ExplainingComputers thank you I would love to see you make a video about thermal paste and thermal pads as you always do giving us the scientific approach
I've added this to my Watch Later playlist since I'm activity downloading DaVinci Resolve 12.5 right now. It's gonna take about an hour total on my connection lol.
Thank you sir. sorry my dogs are racing around the house while I pack for a trip. 3 cattle dogs makes life interesting. so this is Windows eh? hmm. I was wondering why nothing has been done in Movie Maker. I get it technically. when I get some time I'll noodle around. great walkthrough of the basics. I might take some super 8 movies and see if I can jazz them up. endless possibilities.... I can envision my grandmother slaying Sasquatch... she was 90 when she passed away. but let's just say she was set in her ways and no man dressed up in a gorrilla suit would scare her. keep them coming!
Great. A small query regarding chroma keying in color tab. I am using Da Vinci Resolve 15. While chroma keyed layer is shrunken or reduced after chroma key it shrinks background layer as well. It's annoying especially in compositing. Any solution?
Getting the fine details of the hair just right is the most challenging aspect of green/blue screening. I still haven't seen an example of a consumer (or prosumer) level compositor that can do the kind of _perfect_ green/blue screening we see in Hollywood movies, yet they are supposedly using some of the same tools (Fusion, for example). And when you watch these "Behind the Scenes" shots of movie special effects, you'll notice that their green screens are not really that special. So the trick is obviously in the software they're using (Of course it is critically important to light the green screen correctly, too). Any professionals here that can shed some light on what the pros do in order to get the perfect green screen shots we see in features like Avengers: Infinity War?
The issue is the quality of the footage. All consumer gear records 4:1:1 o 4:2:0 footage -- which means it saves data by halving the horizontal resolution of green, and halving he vertical and horizontal resolution of red and blue, in the image. So this reduced chroma resolution makes keying more difficult. Also most consumer HD cameras will not deliver anything like 1000+ lines of real resolution due to the quality of the sensor(s) and the lens used, let alone the recording format. So the tools are not the issue; it is the quality of the footage going into the system. Consumer/prosumer gear can deliver better footage using an external HDMI or SDI recorder -- see my video here: ruclips.net/video/pocs02YuJ4k/видео.html
I'm going to check that out right now. Thanks! Also, I came across this video from cinematographer Matthew Rosen on how to get the perfect green/blue screen shot. Very very informative. One of things he talks about is using a low compression or raw capture format for best results: ruclips.net/video/Z07lKQg00Bg/видео.html
It's nearly impossible to remove all the green artifacts around a subject when using a consumer grade camera, due to their colour sampling limitations. You can do well with (at least) 4:2:2, but consumer grade cameras typically use 4:1:1 or 4:2:0 sampling, which will result in blocky/imperfect garbage around a subject being keyed...there's no avoiding this. Anyway, this is just an FYI for those of you who might see these problems and think they're doing something wrong, or that the software they're using is crappy. With consumer grade cameras, it's the information captured by the camera's sensor that usually causes a problem. Of course, the green screen itself and the lighting must be even too, but that's another discussion.
Yes, totally true. I perhaps should have said that I shoot on a 3-chip pro camera, and record ProRes footage (422 at 100MBps). This said, a trick that many can use is to shoot 1080p footage and composite it into a 720p shot -- using the extra resolution of the chroma plate to improve the quality of the matte.
You can use any colour, but green will create the best matte due to the way most video is encoded in RGBG blocks, so meaning that pure green has a higher vertical chroma resolution than any other colour. But blue and orange can work well.
Hi Chris, a none related suggestion which might bridge both of your channels. How about a build of the 3D printer kit Gearbest currently have on offer for £124? Thanks for the continuing great content.
Hi, Thank for the explanation og the green screen. I have been searching for a way to keep a shadow in the green screen and make it look like its on the video in the background.. do you know how to do this or where i can get the info for it?
Keeping the shadow will depend on the colour settings you choose and tolerance for the same. The green screen is not simply "on" or "off" -- it can do all levels of transparency, hence preserving a shadow, for example. Often when a green screen if being set up the intention is to create a very distinct matte edge (eg around a person), and so often the settings are adjusted harshly for that. But you are looking for something more subtle -- and Resolve can do that. But you will need to shoot good greenscreen footage to achieve this and spend some time adusting the settings! :) Also, look to my video this afternoon on "Top Seven Free Video Editors". One of these is HitFilm Express, and a show (briefly!) green screen work in that and the controls involved. For even better control, you could try using DaVinci Fusion (also free).
Hello! So, I did this splitscreening masks on a project on DaVinci but when I export the project to Final Cut Pro the masks won't work properly... is there an special setting for this to work? Thank you very much for the tutorials!
Why can't I move myself around after I use the green screen option? After I do this and go back to the edit tab to continue editing, it won't let me use the inspector tab to zoom, re-position, etc without doing it to the bottom layer as well. It's like the bottom layer is trapped underneath the top one and cant stretch it to full screen after I crop or move the top layer.
I had a little problem on the render. The timeline shows that the chromakey was done. But in the time to render the chromakey go on green. Do you help me?
This is fantastic. Using this technology I will be able to pretend that I sometimes leave the basement.
Sketch It D.I.Y
There's a website called Amazon. You can buy stuff without leaving your basement.
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My basement has a window, and a chute for deliveries.
Sketch It D.I.Y
Google "Basement Egress Windows". You must be a teenager as you know everything.
Sketch It D.I.Y
Everything you read on the Interweb is true. I'm glad you don't know what my house looks like... or where I live. You sound quite odd.
Basements have windows, but they are at ground level.
its your hair that makes me come back for more of your videos.
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This killed me lol
Finally, someone that explains DaVinci in plain easy to understand English. Thank you.
Thanks. :)
That's was awesome! You just cut my learning curve by months. I hope you do more videos on Resolve.
Many thanks -- I'm glad the video helped.
Your video was the clearest of those I have seen on this topic. I was able to successfully create a videoclip of a 3D Avatar, using text-to-speech, on a green background. The avatar was then superimposed on photographic background. Well done on the tutorial!
I've been trying to figure out how to do this for a while now. Thank you, this vid explained everything perfectly and in a timely matter.
Thanks for the video, coming from FCPXt and explaining someone how to use the mask in DaVinci was overwhelming. With your video, I was able to recreate the masking effect in a minute after watching your video. 👍🏽🙏🏽
Excellent! I'm glad you found this useful.
Very helpful ... using node based editing can be extremely confusing after being used to premiere style keys and masks. you explained it very well, thank you.
Glad it was helpful. :)
Thanks for sharing an excellent tutorial. You are very well spoken. The explanation was very organized and material rich!
I appreciate it!
God bless!
Thanks.
Great one! The power window was what I needed.
Great tutorial!
One additional tipp: if you use the 3D qualifier (which can be selected instead of "HSL") you can remove all green artifacts (like on your glasses) by just one klick at "despill" :-)
Thanks, I will try this. :)
Great tip! Thanks for sharing. Works a treat.
Very helpful
Thank you. I keep referring to this video when I'm practicing with my green screen. Got it all covered here.
Nice to finally see some more tutorials on this editing package. Would love to learn how to put two videos side by side on the same screen, when I do comparison footage and how to slide left or right to show 100% of one video down to 50% with both centered side by side again.
I show the basis of what you describe in my previous Resolve video -- ruclips.net/video/TDGzWfwGgqg/видео.html --put two clips on the timeline, and apply a crop to the upper one to reveal part of the other below.
ExplainingComputers Ok thanks, I watched it before but probably should bookmark it. I watched your first one when you told us about the editing package we can get free.
If the BBC ever revive 'The Computer Programme' you should be on it. No hype, just interesting and informative videos.
:)
In the new davinci, they have a delta keyer where you literally just drag and drop the dropper on the color you want gone and it does it for you. Its borderline magical!
The delta keyer is indeed very powerful -- and has been around in Fusion and Resolve for some time. But for a really good key, adjustments are normally needed, especially if garbage mattes are required.
@@ExplainingComputers Yeah, definitely! I actually used your method the first time I tried adopting greenscreen on my stuff. But when I stumbled on that fusion thing, I was utterly blown away.
@@stringstorm It is amazing the tools now available on the desktop. Stuff that could not be done in a TV studio not that many years ago is now available to so many people. :)
The John Lennon of technology
I love your videos thanks for the tutorial I got davinci resolve it’s so easy to use thanks to you thank you so much!!!!!!
This is excellent news! :) Some people apparently struggle with DaVinci Resolve, so it is nice to hear from somebody who has taken the time to understand it -- and once you know how, it is an easy editor. :)
Super useful... super duper... mega.. ultra.. yesss! Thank your for this video.
:)
I cannot believe this video doesn't have any mention of going into the 3D mode in Qualifier and checking the Despill box. Absolutely crucial!
I show enough here to make things work well.
Chris you saved my life in the second half of this video with the power function, I thought I was going to have to do a days work again!. I am working on my first project and it is quite ambitious green screen really. Is it possible to after applying the power function to either enlarge oneself or shrink ones self? I would be super stoked if you could make a video about that? Thank you sir!
Thanks for this. You can indeed change the scale of a clip after applying a power window. However, if you scale up significantly the loss of resolution will be very evident.
Thank you. This is the only video that I could follow on davinci.
Please do more of these DaVinci videos. They're excellent and helpful.
Thanks -- this is useful feedback. :) I presume you've found my other two?
Yes, I've watched them both. You've made the structure of the software clear and less daunting.
Thanks Chris, very kind of you to produce this and will certainly give it a go :)
Great. It's so easy. Well explained the concept. Thanks a ton.
I knew green screen could be done for my yahoo channel I just didn't know how, until now. Thanks very much for your video!
Very helpful. Thank you. Since my results don't really come close to yours, I'm wondering if your background was lighted. Can you tell me?
The background was just paper, but carefully lit.
So with digital magic like this, does the green screen still have to be green? Can I use a purple screen if I wish, or a screen so long as my clothes aren't the same colour?
Excellent tutorials...I've only recently discovered your channel.
You can use any colour. However, because of the way most video is captured by single chip cameras, and also how most video encoded (both using an RGBG 2x2 matrix), pure green has double the vertical resolution of, say, pure blue -- so you should be able to pull a cleaner matte off green than any other colour. So it is best to use green unless --as you say -- you need to shoot green objects!
Cool video, Christopher! Could have used a green shirt this time, for the good old floating head effect! xD
Which video editing software do you use regularly for your videos to do the keying?
I normally do my keying in AfterEffects, though somes Premiere -- and now sometimes Resolve. And then there is a (free) compliment to Resolve called Fusion -- that I will do a video on some time . . .
ExplainingComputers
Interesting. Will be waiting for that one, then.
I don't do video editing myself, except for the occasional fix when I'm ripping my old DVDs, but as a computer graphics nerd is always good to know this sort of stuff!
Nice presentation. I downloaded DaVinci on your recommendation. Excellent, too. I gonna have some fun with this.
Enjoy -- it is a great package.
Fantastic video for me-just starting to try green screen composite with my sony handy cam.
Most excellent. After your initial 'Resolve available free' i downloaded but the learn curve made me think ... later. But your informative, concise tutorial (as usual) have motivated me to have a play. more on Di Vinci - i'm a watcher not a reader :-) .
Try my DaVinci Resolve FAQ video too -- this one is my third. :)
thx Chris - just so much easier with concise quality instructional vids ... always look forward to your work with both of your channels.
Kjoe Mack Many thanks. :)
I followed your directions and it works perfectly thank you!!!!!!
Outstanding video sir! I was just thinking about how to do this in some of my other software and I got the notification on my phone that you posted this video. This makes much more sense to use DaVinci. Thank you for posting this video.
Do you have any information about proper lighting of the green screen?
This is the second request about this -- I will do a video at some point. If you look down the comments here I have left a few general tips.
Thank you sir for the advice. I will try out your methods :)
Thank you. You are good at making resolve easy!
Great video, only dabbled with green screen, so for me it's a very helpful video thanks
thank you so much dude without you my newest vid would not be possible
Thank you so much, this video is so clear, helpful and clean, great job!!
Glad it was helpful!
@@ExplainingComputers sorry could you please explain me how can I reduce my green screen clip’s height and lenght? Because the editor reduces the whole clip included the video in the background, I hope you understood what I mean. Thank you so much again!
It's really a whole magic...interesting. Thanks for the lecture
Awesome! I'm going to give this a go. New to Resolve, but loving the price ;-)
Thank you for this really informative video! :) Can you make a video about USB Killer V2.0? And what are the things we can do to protect our PCs against it? Thank you so much!
Great Video Chris.
I am using either video or photographic photography every day! On the video end, I stick with Premiere Elements. It is nice to see what the other programs do out there and your video is an excellent resource to show how these things work. One of the disadvantages of PE is that you do not have full control of many of the edits, it is flexible but limited.
Thanks again and have a great week!
Rich
Thanks Rich. At least Adobe let you BUY Premiere elements, rather than renting it like most of their software . . .
I buy the combo pack with Premiere elements and Photoshop elements. I usually wait every other year before I upgrade. Get the most bang for the buck this way. The upgrade combo pack runs me usually mid $80.00 US. I must admit on this video and the one you did a while ago about free software showed me the free versions in some incidences are very close to the Adobe product. Let us know of other free stuff you see out there, very much needed in my retirement years!
Rich
I see that Premiere Elements have gone the Harvard way and charge monthly, 2022.
@@microdesigns2000 gosh I hope not, I might as well get on the Adobe Suite program then or just switch.
I've just started using DaVinci Resolve and would love to see you do some more tutorial videos on this topic.
I may well :) Have you found my last one? ruclips.net/video/TDGzWfwGgqg/видео.html
I have, and thank you. I really enjoy your channel - keep it up! :)
Marvelous! Perfectly done. Just what I needed.
Nice video :) Sadly I can never unsee the colour glitch with the glasses :P
You made it easy... thankyou
Green screen needs good lighting without that you get dark shadows that don't look very good once you go to edit it. So remember good lighting makes a good green screen effect.
Hi, really like your tutorial, it's helpful. I do have a question for you if you're able to answer?
When I do all the steps and key the green, the video goes all laggy. Is there something I should do to stop this? So that I can export out as a smooth running video - like yours?
Jezzawood Films NZ It’s probably your computer
Awesome Chris, thanks for sharing!
I've been trying to switch to daVinci Resolve due to it's excelent price (kek) in the past few years, so it's always nice to see tutorials for it... quite a bit different from your regular Premiere/FinalCut stuff.
Chroma is something I still haven't tried on it, but gives me some confidence seeing that you could use it well. The only problem I've had with it so far is the lack of support for formats - audio and video. But oh well...
I finally did the step (from premiere) to Resolve - and it's great now (and improves hugely with every new version)!
For me it's even worth transcoding not supported clips...
What are you using to transcode your clips Josef? I'm interested in solving the workflow issues to move forward...
Resolve can't read the audio of my camera, so I use my old Adobe Media Encoder CS6 for making 48kHz .wav files which can easily be linked with the original video files in Resolve.
First I transcoded all source files into cineform...
Man, I wish there was a way to automate things like that better... I ran into the same problem converting audio.
WappWolf has automated audio conversion but I'm not sure if it supports wav or your file format, perhaps something could be done with IfTTT. Will look into this later on, thanks for the feedback!
ta for the help im using DaVinci Resolve 16 and this still help with the green screen help what i needed
Great to hear. :)
this looks like adobe premiere and i was just learning green screening today perfect timing lol
works the same way in DaVinci Resolve 15, thank you
Yes, this will work in all versions of DaVinci Resolve.
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Very nice video. I'll be able to use this on my Raspberry PI 3? I do a lot of photography and this will be quite useful. Now I'll have to find the proper green screen against which I'll shoot my video. Thanks for sharing. Now that I've found the link to the first video, I shall view it next.
Excellent video! Thanks so much for sharing!!!!
thank you, 3rd videos a charm. Still have heavy green screen to one side of my body. Would that be due to shadow from lights perhaps???
Almost certainly a lighting or shadow issue. Shooting an even green screen is critical here. :)
thanks a bunch! Great tutorial, got it on first try :)
Excellent.
Amazing video thanks for tips
Excellent video. Thank you!
Thank you so much!
Useful video
Tq this video is more usefully for all
I love you videos do not stop please
I am not going to stop! :) I have loads of video planned for November and especially December. :)
ExplainingComputers thank you
I would love to see you make a video about thermal paste and thermal pads as you always do giving us the scientific approach
Mesharyhd Good idea -- noted in my list. :)
Thank you SO much, You really helped me alot.
Wow I just watched one of your videos and I searched for this and found another.
Excellent! Keep watching. :)
bro i love this nice explanation
Thanks.
This is fantastic.
I've added this to my Watch Later playlist since I'm activity downloading DaVinci Resolve 12.5 right now. It's gonna take about an hour total on my connection lol.
Good intro. Will try to learn more.
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing..
I use davinci resolve!
Cool video by the way.
Thanks! That is first? Keying or Expose correction?
I always key first, before data starts to be lost via colour correction.
ExplainingComputers thank you! And do you use noise reduction before keying or after, to fix bad green screen?
@@ivan90988ify Certainly after -- if you apply noise reduction before keying, it becomes harder to key.
amazing tutorial thank you!!
Good Tutorial. Thank you.
I had no idea such a program was available. 🎃😎
Thank you sir. sorry my dogs are racing around the house while I pack for a trip. 3 cattle dogs makes life interesting.
so this is Windows eh? hmm. I was wondering why nothing has been done in Movie Maker.
I get it technically. when I get some time I'll noodle around. great walkthrough of the basics.
I might take some super 8 movies and see if I can jazz them up. endless possibilities.... I can envision my grandmother slaying Sasquatch... she was 90 when she passed away. but let's just say she was set in her ways and no man dressed up in a gorrilla suit would scare her.
keep them coming!
Excellent,,,thank´s Master....
brilliant video thanks again
Very helpful! Thanks!
Great. A small query regarding chroma keying in color tab. I am using Da Vinci Resolve 15. While chroma keyed layer is shrunken or reduced after chroma key it shrinks background layer as well. It's annoying especially in compositing. Any solution?
Getting the fine details of the hair just right is the most challenging aspect of green/blue screening. I still haven't seen an example of a consumer (or prosumer) level compositor that can do the kind of _perfect_ green/blue screening we see in Hollywood movies, yet they are supposedly using some of the same tools (Fusion, for example). And when you watch these "Behind the Scenes" shots of movie special effects, you'll notice that their green screens are not really that special. So the trick is obviously in the software they're using (Of course it is critically important to light the green screen correctly, too).
Any professionals here that can shed some light on what the pros do in order to get the perfect green screen shots we see in features like Avengers: Infinity War?
The issue is the quality of the footage. All consumer gear records 4:1:1 o 4:2:0 footage -- which means it saves data by halving the horizontal resolution of green, and halving he vertical and horizontal resolution of red and blue, in the image. So this reduced chroma resolution makes keying more difficult. Also most consumer HD cameras will not deliver anything like 1000+ lines of real resolution due to the quality of the sensor(s) and the lens used, let alone the recording format. So the tools are not the issue; it is the quality of the footage going into the system. Consumer/prosumer gear can deliver better footage using an external HDMI or SDI recorder -- see my video here: ruclips.net/video/pocs02YuJ4k/видео.html
I'm going to check that out right now. Thanks!
Also, I came across this video from cinematographer Matthew Rosen on how to get the perfect green/blue screen shot. Very very informative. One of things he talks about is using a low compression or raw capture format for best results: ruclips.net/video/Z07lKQg00Bg/видео.html
Great stuff from a great channel
thank you for this easy tutorial
It's nearly impossible to remove all the green artifacts around a subject when using a consumer grade camera, due to their colour sampling limitations. You can do well with (at least) 4:2:2, but consumer grade cameras typically use 4:1:1 or 4:2:0 sampling, which will result in blocky/imperfect garbage around a subject being keyed...there's no avoiding this.
Anyway, this is just an FYI for those of you who might see these problems and think they're doing something wrong, or that the software they're using is crappy. With consumer grade cameras, it's the information captured by the camera's sensor that usually causes a problem. Of course, the green screen itself and the lighting must be even too, but that's another discussion.
Yes, totally true. I perhaps should have said that I shoot on a 3-chip pro camera, and record ProRes footage (422 at 100MBps). This said, a trick that many can use is to shoot 1080p footage and composite it into a 720p shot -- using the extra resolution of the chroma plate to improve the quality of the matte.
hi is it necessary to have a green background to change the background or anything else will do??
You can use any colour, but green will create the best matte due to the way most video is encoded in RGBG blocks, so meaning that pure green has a higher vertical chroma resolution than any other colour. But blue and orange can work well.
Hi Chris, a none related suggestion which might bridge both of your channels. How about a build of the 3D printer kit Gearbest currently have on offer for £124? Thanks for the continuing great content.
Hi Dave, this is an interesting idea -- noted! :)
thank you so much this helped me a lot
the amount of times I have used this tutorial
Hi,
Thank for the explanation og the green screen. I have been searching for a way to keep a shadow in the green screen and make it look like its on the video in the background.. do you know how to do this or where i can get the info for it?
Keeping the shadow will depend on the colour settings you choose and tolerance for the same. The green screen is not simply "on" or "off" -- it can do all levels of transparency, hence preserving a shadow, for example. Often when a green screen if being set up the intention is to create a very distinct matte edge (eg around a person), and so often the settings are adjusted harshly for that. But you are looking for something more subtle -- and Resolve can do that. But you will need to shoot good greenscreen footage to achieve this and spend some time adusting the settings! :) Also, look to my video this afternoon on "Top Seven Free Video Editors". One of these is HitFilm Express, and a show (briefly!) green screen work in that and the controls involved. For even better control, you could try using DaVinci Fusion (also free).
Thank you for a quick response! I will be looking at your video and try the software!
Hello! So, I did this splitscreening masks on a project on DaVinci but when I export the project to Final Cut Pro the masks won't work properly... is there an special setting for this to work? Thank you very much for the tutorials!
Hi Cris....Did you manage to install DaVinci Resolve in a Linux Mint distro?
I've yet to try this, but it is supposed to be possible (as you may know, official support is for CentOS).
this thing helped now i can put green screen
Nice editor! Thanks😁
How are you recording your screen? I just downloaded the program and hope it doesn't take too long to learn. I don't have a lot of time....
I record the screen with an HDMI recorder -- an Atomos Ninja, to be exact.
Very good. Thank you.
Why can't I move myself around after I use the green screen option? After I do this and go back to the edit tab to continue editing, it won't let me use the inspector tab to zoom, re-position, etc without doing it to the bottom layer as well. It's like the bottom layer is trapped underneath the top one and cant stretch it to full screen after I crop or move the top layer.
Thanks Big Time!
helpful! defenitely downloading 😊
very good. Thank you
Moving from Sony vegas to DaVinci. Unfortunatelly sony vegas chroma key is waaay easier and way better :(
Thanks for the video!
Chromakey in Sony Vegas is certainly easier. But the results that can be obtained in DaVinci Resolve (esp in the Fusion tab now) are far better.
loving it
I had a little problem on the render. The timeline shows that the chromakey was done. But in the time to render the chromakey go on green. Do you help me?
You have rendered the clip, not the timeline -- check your render settings.
That's ok. Thank you very much.