Good tips on using a green screen

Courtney Candice

Courtney Candice

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I just recently purchased a green screen and I was woundring if you have any good tips for me before I use it or anything I should know?:)
 
Lighting is key. You want to make sure the entire green screen is illumined and you yourself do not put a shadow on that screen. You got to key yourself out and do NOT wear anything remotely green. I made that mistake once. Luckily it was an off green, which by luck still stayed visible.
 
TheDutchTexan said:
Lighting is key. You want to make sure the entire green screen is illumined and you yourself do not put a shadow on that screen. You got to key yourself out and do NOT wear anything remotely green. I made that mistake once. Luckily it was an off green, which by luck still stayed visible.
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I don’t ever where green, the only color I wear usually is black. I got a ring light and to umbrella lights and two soft box lights. Any advice on how to not create a shadow with myself?
 
For chroma keying try and get a uniform lighting to hit the green screen. You don't want any light focused in a particular place. You also don't want any shadows on your screen or creases in it. If you bought a proper one it will probably work great. Its just when you start trying to fashion a DIY set up from a sheet or similar that it may not work well.
 
UhoohExtra said:
For chroma keying try and get a uniform lighting to hit the green screen. You don't want any light focused in a particular place. You also don't want any shadows on your screen or creases in it. If you bought a proper one it will probably work great. Its just when you start trying to fashion a DIY set up from a sheet or similar that it may not work well.
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I bought a green screen and it came with a stand a stand, lights and back a couple backdrops. It cost a lot of money.
 
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As a rule of thumb, buy whatever only you need bad. A green screen is a great tool though. You can present yourself or you can extract moving objects without the backround and use for a variety of uses. As already said, good lighting. In software if you do not get it right in the first time you will have to experiment a little with parameters to get the best result but then it is easy. You can make DIY backdrops (non monochrome of-course) depending to your taste and be like your vlog background signature. Good luck, enjoy the new stuff! :)
 
videoeditgr said:
As a rule of thumb, buy whatever only you need bad. A green screen is a great tool though. You can present yourself or you can extract moving objects without the backround and use for a variety of uses. As already said, good lighting. In software if you do not get it right in the first time you will have to experiment a little with parameters to get the best result but then it is easy. You can make DIY backdrops (non monochrome of-course) depending to your taste and be like your vlog background signature. Good luck, enjoy the new stuff! :)
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I used a couple of the backdrops i purchased in my last couple videos, that way in I’m modeling clothes people see more of applying background that me just standing in front of my couch. I also thought the backdrops would be good when I do Sponsorships, I’ve got a couple offers but I didn’t take those because I didn’t like the products they wanted me to sell.
 
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