Hi Russell Stannard out from teacher training videos.com We're gonna look today at how we can
do kind of low-budget green-screen now if anyone any of you follow my work on my channel you know
that sometimes I'm doing quite high production stuff and other times if I'm just wanna have
myself in the corner while I am talking over some content and I tend to just use a lower production
and that's what you're seeing now in front of me so what I'm gonna try and do is explain to
you everything I've got around me which includes five lights and obviously a webcam and obviously
a fairly good microphone so I'm gonna take you through it all and then finally I'm actually
gonna show you the editing process and show you how I change a green screen video into a video
where obviously the background has been deleted and then we can put in our own background so let's
get started really hope you liked the video and if you do please like it please share it please
any questions just leave them in the comments box I'll try my best to to answer them and of course
if you like what I'm doing please subscribe to my channel let's get started so this is very
much a low-budget setup which I can literally turn on and start working with instantly so I
can get up in the morning and make new tutorials and everything set up for me so in front of me
above my head are two pretty big lights I bought them as part of a green-screen package which cost
me around eighty pound that was a green-screen with two lights those two lights are on now I've
actually got two computer monitors but you don't need two monitors and often when I'm travelling
I'm simply working from one monitor but I've got two lights there right in front of me just above
my head they're not pointing up me and she's really important they're pointing at the green
screen behind me what you're gonna see in a minute as you'll see in a minute right behind me as the
green screen but there are also two lights on the floor and the reason for that is obviously with me
sitting in front of the camera that creates some shadows because I have these two lights above my
head and so for that reason I need to light on the floor which are pointing directly at the
green screen that just literally behind me and those two lights make sure that the green screen
is really evenly lit and that is very important as you'll see when we get to the editing stage
these two lights that I've got on the floor they were absolutely brilliantly they're just typical
kind of photography lights and they cost me around 35 pound now I do have a few additional features
number one I have a blue Yeti microphone which I've been very pleased with because again it's
plug-and-play I plug it in I can just use it very very easily it's not absolutely top quality audio
and I do have better audio equipment when I'm doing high-end stuff but for this kind of setup
and again wanting to do something really quick then it works really well now because the lighting
in the room is quite bright it ends up making me look very anemic so I have an additional light
over to my left hand side there and that light has got a kind of tint on it so it's kind of yellowy
orange color and that helps to make me look less anemic on the screen and that's quite an important
feature to have because otherwise you're gonna look very very lights well obviously depends
on the color of your skin but you're certainly going to look not right if you've just using the
lighting that you're using to light up the green screen the other thing is and this is probably
the thing that I would improve this is a very good camera it does do the job but I think if
you're thinking of kind of making yourself bigger on the screen and you really want to
have nice quality webcam obviously most of the time when I'm doing my green screens in this
way I tend to be quite small on the screen just in the corner and therefore this webcam is fine
but probably if I was to look to do something a bit more with this system then I'd probably buy
myself an even better camera to use for the green screen but this cameras done a great job and it's
obviously doing the job for you today while you're watching this so what I'm going to do now is just
quickly take you through the editing process if I import in one of the video so let's just bring in
the intro video to this actual video that I've created for you we can see here an example is
bring the playhead back just click to here we bring the playhead back now you can see there's
the background there I am now at the moment of course and if the best thing to do is just click
and select the webcam I'm going to shift it over to that so I'll tend to put it on the left gonna
make it bigger and there's a few things to keep in mind here okay so if I play that you can see
lo now what I need to do is to get rid of that green background now one thing that you can do
straight away is click here and just kind of cut it down because you don't need to be working with
the whole of the area you can kind of just reduce it by cropping the image and that's going to make
it easier when you come to the green screen then you come down to your visual effects and you drop
remove color and then you choose the color you gonna ruin and remove so come over here and say
well what color do you want to remove I'm gonna click here and I'm gonna select the background
color now I'm normally trying to select it and you can see it's almost perfect straight away and the
reason for that is because the lighting behind me is so good it's so evenly lit up that it's very
easy to tell Camtasia that's the color I wanna remove but what you can do if it doesn't if it's
not perfect is that you can increase slightly the tolerance which I sometimes increase up to about
fifteen sixteen percent just to make sure but I think in this case is not going to be a problem
but you can just slightly increase the tolerance don't affect the tolerance too much because it may
end up affecting other things in the picture as well but because there's a strong contrast between
the green background and myself and the way that I'm lit up at the front then really that's okay
and that should be work now if I can move that into position now one thing to keep in mind if
I come back not to crop in but just to kind of resize in obviously if I make it really big then
the quality in terms of the video is not going to be that good now obviously most of the time when
I'm doing this green screen small scale projects for company training where I'm the generally gonna
be quite small on the screen around that size then really there's no problem but as I've said
what would be a good idea is to have a better webcam I really hope that was useful I will do
a kind of higher budget example later on if you did like the video please like it please share
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