Would you like to know how to green screen like a pro? Well,
I'm going to take you behind the scenes and show you all the setup all the gear
the settings on the lightings so that you can make your green screen look its best.
Okay, as my team is getting ready, I'm going to show you the paint
that I use to paint the green wall.
I've got it behind some of my gear here. It's not a full can. I was like lifting it like it
was full. So, it's actually video paint chroma key green. Man, I love this stuff because it's super,
super matte. And you put light on it and it doesn't reflect off which is pretty cool.
It absorbed light even more than I thought in that regard. I don't know if I'm using the right term.
But now, I'll go show you the wall.
I decided to put the green screen room down here.
Alright. So, I've got some other construction projects I'm doing on these walls.
But this is the wall that I painted green screen. Now, you probably cannot tell with this camera.
But the wall has some texture. And so, what I did first is I had to add some plaster or
whatever it's called to smooth out the wall before i could paint it green. And then you'll notice I
made a mistake down there. So, I covered over an outlet but then those two outlets over there
no longer worked. So, I had to dig it back out do the wiring the correct way and then plaster
it back over and I'm going to sand it and paint that part again. Okay, go ahead and bring that
camera in here. And where do you normally like to set that up in here? So, we're using the wide
angle lens and we've got a wide wall here so that should work pretty well. Generally, I want to have
a lot of space behind me and the green screen so there's not as much green reflecting back on me.
So, I'll be closer to the camera than I am to that wall. So, let's start out we'll turn off
this light above me. We'll bring in some really nice lights to get a good even balance of light.
The goal is to get this as evenly lit as possible. Now, we're only filming from
the waist up so we're not so concerned about what's down lower or what's above
but we want it to be as even as possible. Okay. So, clearly, I don't have enough light on me.
So now let's bring in the v-flats and set up the subject lights.
So, as you can see, we've got a couple aperture lights shining light down on our v-flats which is
reflecting really soft light back at me. So, now that we got the wall lit behind we've got lights
on me, now we can fine-tune, we can do the color correction. We can just fine-tune the lighting
so that I look as crisp and clear as possible. So, I just have a little theory that I want to
test. I'm going to brighten the background but also brighten the lights on me and I just want
to see if it makes a difference in the video. And then I'm going to take it to a dimmer level from
where we are right now and to see if that makes a difference. This is only half the battle. When you
take the footage into the editing software, you've got to key out the background and replace it with
whatever you want. And for me, I love final cut pro because it's one click and it does it
automatically. In premiere, there's several things you've got to fine tune adjust and i don't know
all those adjustments. So, I can't do it very well. But I'm going to give this challenge to
my editing team and see what they can do. So, I know nothing about this but my videographer
melissa just said that Da Vinci Resolve is what? -It's like... -It's THE coloring software. So, you
should probably know that and their free version is apparently really, really good. So, that's good
to know. Okay. So, just try this team. Let's turn up these we're at 5%. So, let's turn them up to 8.
And yeah. So, that's quite bright. So, let's turn up... Maybe go up to... I'm on 6. I'll
go up to 9. Okay. And so, not we normally or naturally have to turn down the ISO and
probably even turn up some shutter speed. Okay. So, let's just see. Does that make any difference?
I really don't know what the output will look like but I'm curious to know. There's much more light
in the room now. And I want to take it down to a much lower level than we were before.
So, I even took it dimmer. The lights reflecting back on me and
the lights on the wall behind me were all at 2%. So, it's really,
really dim in this room and I just want to see does it make any difference.
Now, that you know how to set up green screen like a boss, I want to show you more details about
this gear and how to set up real professional lighting for YouTube go watch this video next.