Hello everybody welcome back to my channel, Jennifer Marie VO, where I teach you different
ways that you can make money online working from home. In my last video, I taught you how
to create your own green screen for under $5. And in today's video, I'm going to teach you
about how to use video editing software. To remove the green background and replace it with your own
background image or video, I'm going to teach you two different methods. And the first method
which is what I'm using right now we're going to use a completely free video editing software for
Windows computers. The software is a little bit complicated, but I'm going to walk you through
step by step exactly how to use it. This is a great option for people who do not have a budget
to purchase video editing software, but still want to create their own green screen videos.
In method two, which is what I'm using right now, we're going to use a paid video software called
Filmora. You can get a free trial of Filmora by clicking on the link in the description below.
However, I only recommend purchasing Filmora if you have the budget for it. If you just want to
get started creating videos, you can go ahead and use the free video editing software that I'm going
to teach you how to use in method one. If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to my
channel by clicking on the subscribe button below For more tips and tricks on how to video edit,
photo edit, audio edit and tips on how to become a freelancer and make money online. Okay,
so the first method I'm going to show you is how to remove the green screen background using the
free video editor VSDC. So go to videosoftdev.com. Now remember, this is for Windows PC or laptop,
you're going to click downloads, then video editor. And then here you'll click download
video editor depending on which computer type you have. If you want to follow along with
this tutorial, you can go to pixabay.com and type in chroma key or green screen.
And down here are all three different videos that have green screen backgrounds that you can, you
know, download one of these and try this method out yourself. Okay, so once you open up VSDC,
you're going to click on Import content. Now don't get alarmed. This is an advanced video editor. So
there's a lot of different features. But I'm going to show you the quickest way to insert
your media, remove the background and then export it. So you don't have to learn all the other
complicated editing steps just yet. So click on Import content, then find your green screen
footage that you recorded and click Open. Here you can give a project title. So let's say chroma key
demo one. And you can just leave all the settings as they are and click Finish. Okay, so as you can
see here at the bottom, we have layer one, and our green screen is on layer one, it's we want this to
be on the top layer, because later we're going to put a background on the bottom layer. And we want
this to be on top. So now what we want to do is click on video effects. Go down to transparency,
and then click on background remover. here just leave everything as it is we want this to say
the whole parent duration. Because basically, we want to remove the green from the entire file.
If you just wanted to remove it from a portion of the file, you could play around with these
settings. I'm just going to click OK. So now what we want to do is go over to the properties window.
And you can see here we have chroma key color. And what we want to do is click on the eyedropper
tool, and we're going to select the color that we want to remove. Now you can see
mine wasn't lit perfectly, there's some shadows here there's some unevenness. So just try to click
a color that represents more or less the color you want to remove. And as you can see, just like
that it has removed it from the background. Now what you'll want to do is scroll through the clip
and see if it has more or less changed everything. removed all the baggage. Okay,
you can see right there. For example, right here, you can see that there's still green here and we
don't want that we want to remove all the green. So we're going to play around with these three
different settings. You're going to click here beside the numbers and adjust them up or down.
So you can see as I'm doing this, you can see how the green see how there's more green and now I'm
making it less and less and I want it to completely disappear. Okay,
so you can keep playing with that setting until you're not going to see any more green.
Now there's still a faint green outline around my hair. One thing I recommend is when you're
doing a green screen, brush your hair down or use hairspray or something, my hair was
kind of going crazy here. And that can be tricky sometimes to remove the green background, because
it's so thin in between strands of hair. So if you, you know, comb your hair better than I did,
and then you won't have this problem, we can also play around with these two settings as well.
As you can see, this is making the line even thinner. The thin green line, you can see it's
going down, or especially around here around my shirt. Okay, and then the last one as well.
You can see that's even making it go more faint. Now again, the the main
problem I'm having with this is with my hair. So you can see everything else is pretty good.
And it's almost taking out all the green from around my clothes, it's just with my hair. Because
of this, you know, thing that I had going on here, it's hard to remove all the green. But once we put
a background behind it, it's not going to be as noticeable. So once you play around with all those
settings, and you have it more or less the way you like it, we can also adjust the size of this
layer. So let's say I want to make this really small. Or let's say you're a video gamer, or your
YouTuber, and you want to have a little corner of you in the background while you're playing a
video game or something like that, you can just make this nice and smaller as big as you want.
Okay, so now we're ready to add a background image. What we're going to do is click over here
under objects Explorer, go to add object, and then click on image or video depending if you're going
to have a background video or a background image, I'm going to click image, then locate the image
you want to add as a background. And click OK. And then you can position where you want the image to
go. So let's say I want to drag it up here and then expand it so it fills the entire scene.
And now we want this to go underneath the layer. So first, what we're going to do is drag it
the length, so it matches the length of the green screen layer. And then we need to switch these two
layers so we can drag it up. So it's overtop of our other layer right here. And then you can go
ahead and move you know, the layer however you want it, obviously, because the way I
shot this, you can see that my head is chopped off because I didn't shoot my full head in view.
But you can go ahead and make this as small as you want. And that's pretty much all you have to do.
And just be careful here when you're positioning these because this purple line outline right here
is indicating what's inside the frame. So we're going to want to make sure that our
green screen layer is inside and not you know, up here,
for example. So when you're ready, and you're happy with this and you want to export it,
you can click on Export project. And then you're going to click either if you want to export it as
mpg as mkv or whatever. I'm just going to click on web, for example. And you can click for YouTube,
or for Instagram or for Facebook. And I'm going to click to mp4 actually, and then click
Export project. Now just ignore this and just click Continue, they're going to ask you to make
use of the pro version. But you don't need to do that. Just click Continue. And you can see here,
it's going to go ahead and export the project for us. Okay, and now it says conversion was complete.
And you can see right here where it sent the file. So this is the location. So
you can go ahead and locate that on your computer to find the file we just made.
Okay, and here you can see the output video that we were left with. So as you can see, you know,
even though you don't have the premium version, it doesn't matter, just click Export anyways,
and we still have removed all the green. So the only tip I have for you, if you want to use the
free version, you can still see a slight green outline of my hair, but you're not seeing that
outline here on my clothes. This is just because I my hair is kind of crazy here. So if you brush
your hair really well and don't make it a problem, you'll be able to eliminate that fine line,
doing that fine tuning of those different settings that we saw on the side. And again, the brighter
you make your green screen with the least amount of imperfections as possible, you're not going
to get these sorts of errors. Also, obviously when you're doing your green screen recording,
make sure to have your full head in view so you don't get your head cut off like I did here.
Now I'm going to show you the second method of how to remove backgrounds using Filmora. And
Filmora is a paid program but it's one of the most affordable video editing software programs
out there and it's really easy to do. And you can even do more fine tuning in Blending to make this
look even more natural. So let's jump on into that. And I'll show you the difference. Okay,
so now the next demo I'm going to show you is how to use Filmora. This is the video editing software
that I use, I've put a link in the description below that will direct you to Filmora 10. So there
is a free download. However, when you export the file, it will have a watermark. In order to remove
that watermark, you have to buy it. And this is not the case with the software I just showed you.
But Filmora is a lot more simple and much more intuitive and easy to use. And the cost is
actually quite low. There's a one time fee of $70. They have here a subscription monthly subscription
of $10 if you want extra effects and things like that, but you don't need to get that you can
just unclick it and then it will just charge you $70 one time, and you have the program for life.
Okay, so this is Filmora. Once you're in, you can see it's a lot easier to look at than the
program we used before. What we're going to do is click here to import our green screen footage.
And now all you have to do is drag it on to the track. So just drag it onto the top track here.
And then to remove the background, all we have to do is double click on the file and go to chroma
key, open that up by clicking on the arrow, then click on the check. And then we're going to select
the eyedropper and select the green that we want to key out or make transparent. So we have to make
some adjustments here to make this perfect, what we want is to click on alpha channel.
And basically what we're going to try to do is make everything outside of me here,
black and this completely white. So what we're going to do is adjust these sliders right here,
all of them until this is completely black. And this is all white. And we can turn this on and
off to see what it looks like. And then from here, you can even adjust these other factors,
the tolerance, you can also change the edge thickness, which I really like.
So you can have a thicker edge. Or if you wanted to, for example, the problem we had
with the other free editing software was with my hair up here. So we can try to
make this go down a little bit. So we can remove that problem with the hair.
And we can we can't even see the green outline anymore. And then you can add an edge feather. And
as you can see here, by adding this edge feather, I am erasing this weird little hair that was
stray here and completely cleaning up and making it a little bit blurred.
So it's not going to be as noticeable. And once you're happy with how that looks,
and you can see that it's really done a great job of cleaning this all up so there's no faint
Green Line anymore. Then press OK. And now we're ready to add a background. So again,
you just right click, go import. Okay, so let's say I want to make this background video behind
myself here. I'm going to take the video and drag it on the track underneath me on the clip.
Now I can shorten this clip to make it the length of the background that I'm going to use.
Okay, and let's say you want to make this smaller, so I don't want to be so big on the screen,
I can click on the layer and then drag it and make it even smaller. If I wanted. If
I wanted to put it in the corner or something like that, I could do that.
Again, of course, when I would do this, if I were to do this again, I would film the green
screen so it was not going to cut off the top of my head so it looks more natural. But you
can see there's no green, we're not seeing any green all around me which is great. And finally,
let's say you want to add an effect over top of this. So it's snowing all over here. Let's say we
want to make it look like it's snowing in front of me too. Like I was actually outside. We could also
go back to pixabay. And you have these two free videos of snowing these chroma key effects where
it looks like it's snowing. And we can do the same process we've just done to key out the green. So
let's download this. You can also do this on the with the other program I showed you the free one.
We're going to import the snow here. We're going to drag this on the top
layer. Again we'll click and resize it because we want the snow to be on top because we want it to
look like it's snowing over top of me. Then double click on the file. Click on chroma key. And again,
you can just click on the green and now when we press play you'll see that snowflakes are In front
of my face, too, so it does look as well, like it's also snowing in front of me, which is great.
And it's just that easy. You know, Filmora really makes it so easy to key out everything
and to adjust everything. So in my opinion, it really is worth the $70 to have this program.
It's such a cheap price to pay to have such an excellent software. But again, if you don't have
the money right now to buy Filmora, and you just want to get started learning how to video edit,
you can use the method I showed you method one, even though it's a bit more complicated,
it's still pretty simple to use, just follow the steps I laid out in the video.
And that is just perfectly fine as well. But if you eventually get more work, and you have a bit
more of a budget, you might want to invest in something like Filmora to make your videos just
that much more professional. Finally, when you're ready to export this video, just click Export,
click create video. And then you can choose if you want to export it to YouTube or whatever.
I just go to mp4. I'm going to put chroma key demo Filmora and then export. And then it will
go through the video and let you know when it's finished. And then when it's finished,
just click Find target and it will locate the file that where it was saved on your computer.
And you can see what a great job it did, the only thing I would do differently again is just make
sure not to cut off my head in the one filming the green screen. But other than that you can't
see any green it's really taken off all the green and looks much more natural. So again, it's up to
you whether or not you want to use method one or method two, I recommend starting with method one
if you don't have a budget for video editing right now and you just want to get started creating
your own green screen effects. And then eventually if you have more of a budget you have some more
money coming in, you might want to get Filmora because it really is an excellent video editor
and it's what I use for almost all of my videos. Okay everyone that's it for this video on teaching
you how to video edit green screen footage for free. I hope you learned something and
you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions on anything else related to video
editing or green screen effects, just feel free to leave a comment in the description below. And if
you're interested in similar tutorials to this one or want to learn more about video editing,
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