probably the most frequent comment in
question that I get is how I make my
video tutorials for YouTube so in this
video I'm going to show you exactly how
I do it so of course most people know
that in fact I'm not sitting in front of
a wood panel and I'm really just filming
myself in front of a green screen and
although it does take me quite a while
to edit my videos and get them all ready
to post to YouTube
there are some ways that you could use a
green screen to make your tutorials look
similar to the way that mine look
without it taking as much time making
green screen videos would be a really
cool way to make more cutting-edge
innovative videos for your students and
once you learn how to make them you can
also teach students how to do it and
they really get a kick out of it as well
so in this video I'll be showing you the
basics of how to use the video editing
software program I use called ScreenFlow
my name is Sam Carey and this is my
youtube channel for the new EdTech
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so before we start talking about
ScreenFlow let's talk about some of the
other equipment that you will need in
order to make a green screen video the
first piece of equipment is that you're
obviously going to need some type of
green screen I use a pop-up green screen
but it's also possible to just hang
green fabric or even sit in front of a
green painted wall the key here is that
you want it to be one monochromatic tone
of green and you don't want there to be
any wrinkles in fabric if you're just
using a drop sheet that's green colored
the next important thing that you need
is a decent lighting setup because if
you don't have that you're gonna see a
lot of green seeping around the image
and I'll show you a little bit of what
that looks like in the tutorial I also
use an external microphone but that's
optional and I do fill myself with a
camera as
to make sure that the image is really
crisp and clear and then the last thing
I want to mention before you jump in is
that ScreenFlow is not the only program
with a chroma key feature that allows
you to edit out green background there
are other video editor programs that
will allow you to do this but all the
video editing software that I know of
that allows you to use chroma key does
require you to pay for it alright let's
jump in and I'm going to show you
exactly how I make my tutorials with
ScreenFlow okay so what we're looking at
here is a finished version of a short
video that I just created about how I
make my video intros and outros and what
you can see in the ScreenFlow studio
here is that the videos that I put
together are essentially built out of a
layering system so for example if I
scroll over here and then zoom in you
can see that the top layer is the arrow
that I'm showing to indicate a part of
the screen the second layer is the video
that I took of myself and the last layer
is the screen recording so you can
essentially stack as many layers as you
would like on top of each other in some
of my videos I'll have as much as
potentially even 10 or more layers
depending on what I'm doing in a
particular video and then all these
little cuts that you see just represent
edits that I've been making so I'll show
you that in a second as well okay I'm
just gonna go to the end of this video
and show you how I actually do the green
screening effect where I'm able to
superimpose myself over either a
background like you see here of a wood
wall or over the background of something
like a screencast so what I do is film
myself I use a camera and fill myself
with that camera so for example if you
look at this layer here this is just me
in front of a green screen talking so I
have my green screen setup I have my
microphone
I will eventually crop out of the
picture so let's say for example that I
just wanted to put myself over some
different kind of background here what I
can do is also bring a background image
in so I'll bring this dark wood
background one of the images I like to
use a lot I'll drag it forward so that
it's covering the length of the layers
and obviously you'll see that you can't
see me in front of that background yet
so what you have to do here is go up to
video and you go down to video filters
and then you use the chroma key function
and chroma key is what's gonna allow you
to key out the green so when I click add
it will detect a shade of green I could
play around with that shade of green I
wanted to to see I can get it to be a
little bit more accurate looks like the
original shade was actually the best one
and then I can also play here with the
tolerance to try to get out some of that
green seeping so you'll see for example
if the green isn't that great or the
chroma key is not great that there will
be a lot of seeping kind of around the
edges and especially if you have a low
tolerance then it's going to kind of
blow it out so I'll bring that tolerance
in so that it looks more natural
okay so that was pretty straightforward
there I am in front of a wooden
background and then all I need to do
here is go to the cropping tool and what
I do is crop the sides there so that it
looks like I'm in front of that
background and then I just need to make
sure that this is stretched to fit the
screen and there you go so now when I'm
talking it looks like I'm in front of a
background so the concept for how I
would bring in a screen cast is
basically the same I also do my screen
casts within ScreenFlow though you could
do a screen cast elsewhere and then
bring it in it doesn't really matter you
can add any type of layer that you want
in here so let's say that I have my
screen recording what I'm gonna do here
is drag that down so that it's
underneath me I'll go ahead and make
sure that that fits to the size of the
screen and then I'm going to size down
my image oh and there that's a good
example of that seeping actually so I
would need to
back to that filter and bring that
tolerance up or I could also play around
here with the green to try to make sure
that that gets out
so I usually size myself down about
halfway and then I drag my position
where I want to go so that's pretty much
the basics about how it's done
of course there are a lots of other
features that you'll see in the videos
for example you'll see here that
annotation that I bring in to have an
arrow show up on the screencast and then
I also do things like add these
transitions to the front of the videos
that you can do by right-clicking and
adding different types of transitions as
well and those are just different
animations and actions that you can do
in ScreenFlow so you'll see here when I
click play that's going to call out a
part of the screen that's going to zoom
up and then when the call-out ends it's
going to go back to the regular view and
then just to show as well some of the
other things that I do with my process
here you'll notice that there's actually
sometimes these long gaps where I might
be looking at something that I want to
say or what happens a lot is that I mess
up on different things so what I do is
go to a part where I want to cut if I'm
ready and then I just cut out the
section that I don't want delete it
bring that layer over and now those two
parts are clipped together so there's
obviously a lot more you can learn about
ScreenFlow but those are pretty much the
basics so that you can understand how I
make my videos I hope you learned a
little bit about the techniques that I
use to make my video tutorials for
YouTube and just a reminder if you do
decide to go out and try ScreenFlow
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