i'm hopeful for this one i think that this could work out pretty well hello and welcome i'm tom
from FXhome and today we're going to be looking at the various ways that you can create your own
green screen green screens are a great asset for filmmakers and whether you're just starting your
filmmaker journey or you're creating content on youtube green screens are a great way to just
heighten the production value of your content there are a couple ways that you can create your
own green screen but we've gone out we've gone the most low budget popular options that are under $20
and we've got to test them out for you now to see what gives the best chroma key for
the lowest budget now to keep this experiment fair i'm going to be using the same lighting setup for
every single technique if you want to learn what those techniques are we have a playlist available
right up here that has all of our tutorials on green screen lighting speaking of fair if you
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you haven't already we're going to be kicking off this experiment with craft paper this is a
free size green card craft paper don't know the difference let me know this is 50 sheets worth
or about 6 to 10 dollars depending on where you go
i'm told i'm english this amount isn't going to be able to cover the entire length of a room or
anything but for our setup right now i think it's going to do a pretty good job so let's go for it
here we are with green screen number one i think it works from the get-go it's not exactly the
prettiest setup that you could ever have you are going to need a fair few in order to fill out
a large space i think i used the majority of my sheets i only have a couple left layering up these
different sheets is definitely time consuming and it's not going to last for long that tape
is probably going to give out at any moment one of the most important things for a green screen
is keeping it consistent and smooth and you will notice that there are overlapping periods you know
it's card it's going to bend it's going to move i think we're going to face some issues but uh let's
see what this looks like when we chroma key it over to you future tom thanks past me we're now in
HitFilm express and we're gonna look at how to do this we're gonna be using the color difference key
so let's check this out by going into the keying effects i'm selecting color difference key we'll
apply this on and automatically it's a bit of a hazy result we're going to of course need to
adjust our settings so in order to see what i'm doing i am going to enable view matte now in this
the black is the area that is being removed the white is what is being left behind so you can
see that there is some detail being taken away right now we need to heighten the minimum and
lower the max with any settings this is always going to take some time to get the right result
after quite a lot of tweaking this is where we're at right now the minimum and maximum values are
very very tight uh this is something that would be a bit problematic if there were any wrinkles
or anything but at the moment this looks okay we have some noise in this area but let's try
and neaten that out and i'll be going into the mat enhancements and then apply a matte cleaner
all we're going to be doing here is just smoothing this out a little bit
and then choking it in just to get rid of some of that you can then smoothen this out as much
as you want but i think that's probably the best result and finally a spill removal will
get rid of the green that we've subtracted from me and if i go into the options tab and
then set this to checkable background you can see that this is the area that we've now subtracted
which is a pretty good result we do have a little bit of noise going on around the edges of my hair
and uh the edges of the frame but with a touch more neatening around the edges with
a matte cleaning and a light wrap this is actually given a really good result i'm very surprised by
what i'm seeing right now considering that this is just from green card there's nothing special
or flashy about it it is just green paper perhaps if we were traveling and needed to make something
for a of a suite or a zoom call perhaps i think that this is definitely a easy go-to approach
it doesn't cost much but i would definitely say that this is a one-time use you're not going to
be wanting this on your wall for very long our next contestant is a plastic tablecloth this one
in particular was actually two dollars you can obviously get them for various prices for under
ten dollars at various sizes and materials we're gonna go with plastic for now because it's also
versatile waterproof and you'd be able to take this around somewhere so let's see how this does
that was a lot easier than craft paper initial reactions are this is actually pretty good
originally i was very concerned that it was going to be too reflective probably cause a lot more
problems but this um this actually looks like it could potentially be a winner if you crafted a pvc
stand you would be able to take this anywhere that you wanted to it is incredibly thin and i did have
to double it up there are also a bunch of wrinkles that you're not going to be able to remove
without fully tightening it and possibly tearing it i'm hopeful for this one i think that this
could work out pretty well let's go over to post production here we are with test number two and
again i am actually quite hopeful for how this is going to turn out so once again
let's go to the color difference key and see where we're getting view matte
and uh yeah that's actually giving us a lot better results than what we had
with the paper so this has given a pretty decent result though there is some detail going on around
here and especially around the edges which is from the reflections that we had now to counter this
we can increase the max values to try and get rid of some of that detail but you can
see that's coming out of my shoulders some of those reflections have definitely stuck with us
and are now going to be brought into the footage meaning that you'd have to eventually mask around
this it's not a huge problem given that it's only this area but if this was in any other scenario
and moving around this could be problematic once again this is given a really good result there's
a little bit of wobbling around the edges of my frame but that's mainly to do with my hair what
we can do is bring that choke in and after giving it a mask we have a pretty decent key once again
considering the price of it i'm very happy with how this is turned out i think that this is great
the reflections are definitely something to look out for this is incredibly effective i'm
very surprised of how good this has turned out we have another material-based one now and this is
the form of cloth this is green cloth that was intended to be some form of curtain but rather
than being a odd interior design choice we're going to use it for a green screen this was the
more expensive of the options that we're going to see today this was 12 dollars for about two meters
this is probably the most common type of green screen to use i see
a lot of student films using this type of material for green screen
as the heaviest material that we have used today it is definitely a struggle to get it to stay
on the wall uh it is definitely the type of material that would need
clips and a stand there's also a lot of creases in here i don't know whether this material is
suitable to be ironed but um that would have to definitely be the case in order to get rid of some
of those lines so i'm worried that there's going to be an excessive amount of masking later when we
try and do our chroma so let's find out all right curtain let's see if this was worth the hassle
you know the drill by now color difference key view map find the right values adjust the gamma
apply mat cleaner for the edges smooth them out choke them in then finish with a spill removal
at the moment we haven't found a bad one yet i am concerned like the others don't there is a very
tight gap between the minimum and maximum values if there were anything else going on in the scene
then i think that there could be problems but for the moment this is really good everything
that we've seen so far has been effective which is fantastic for our next one unfortunately i
can't do a time lapse of it because it would take me far too long and probably get quite messy our
final method is green screen paint you can pick up a can of green paint at any diy store you can
find them for about six dollars to 25 it depends on what brand and also what size of the canvas
you are trying to fill if you're trying to do an entire wall you're going to need more paint if
you're just doing a little area yeah not too bad this is definitely an action for a more permanent
situation if you're doing regular content and even trying to do stuff for a studio purpose do
make sure that you have the owner's permission to start painting the wall before you start painting
other than the paint drying you're not going to be facing too much turmoil when it comes
to actually coming here and setting up it is incredibly smooth and easy to do i've just
walked over here set up my lights and i'm ready to go no faffing with anything falling down
or being stuck to the wall this may seem like it's the perfect option but there are a lot of cons
to it lighting a wall like this can be quite difficult as you can see there is a bit of a
ven getting around me from where the light is i do you need a couple of lights in order to fill this
and get an even lighting on the background on the whole this is going to give you some great
results and also cut out all the maintenance work so you only have to set it up to one time and it's
always going to be there what's important when painting a green screen though is getting it nice
and smooth something that we've seen throughout the other examples is if there's texture in there
that causes problems creases things like that that's going to cause problems later when you're
keying it in post a nice smooth surface will give you the best results every single time
but don't take my word for it let's see what happens when we key this in post
all right paint this is going to be an interesting one to see given that it's
not a material based green screen let's apply color difference key and like before set the
view map so we can see what we're up to there's a lot going on in there so let's bring this down
move that up clean up those edges choke it in spill remove and once again here we are with
another working green screen that means every single green screen that we've tried out today
has been effective meaning that no matter what budget you're working with you have the
ability to get a green screen and craft one of your own whether this is going to be for
youtube streaming films you have the ability and tools to create your own green screen
that's right we've tricked you into learning that anything is possible and i think that's
a lesson that we can all enjoy what's more likely is that no matter what the material
as long as a green screen is lit right and used correctly you can get some fantastic results
so get creating well that's it for our diy green screens i really do hope that you found this
helpful but let me ask you which ones are you gonna try out for yourself let us know in the
comment section down below be sure to like this video subscribe and we will see you next time