In this video I'm going to show you some of the advanced techniques that you can do with webcams
did you realize for example that you can move the webcam around on the screen or that you can resize
the webcam you can even put a frame around the webcam and you can even use the webcam full screen
I'm going to show you five great techniques that you can use to really work with the webcam
and make more use of it uh to make your videos as visually compelling as possible
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so normally when you record with the webcam you've got your kind of whatever you're talking about
in the background and then you've got the webcam here as well on the screen
and the first thing to notice is that you've actually got control over both
of those things so if i click on the webcam on its own i can just resize it immediately
so now if i played that video the webcam would be much bigger so that's the first thing to keep
in mind you have actually got control because it records on two separate channels if you're
recording both the screen of your computer but you've got the webcam on you're going
to have two channels and you can just click on that webcam channel and then you can resize it
so that's the first thing to remember now a good little tip is when you're doing that is turn
off the other channel you can lock the other channel just so that you can't actually do
anything with that channel so therefore you can't edit this accidentally and that way you can just
simply work and resize and move wherever you want the webcam actually to be on the screen
now whenever i do my training the next little trick when i actually show people they think
oh of course that's so obvious so really important little trick let's say you want to move the webcam
so you want to start with the webcam here and it's probably a bit big so what we can do is we can
crop it a little bit I'm going to get rid of the green screen we'll be coming back and
looking at the green screen later on in this video anyway but let's say we're going to move
the green screen and i didn't mean to do that sorry I'm going to move the green screen or move
the webcam and have it on on this side of the screen so we're going to play the video a bit
so the first technology that we're going to look at is google earth google earth is free
and at this point here i'm going to cut the video remember this part's not going to be
edited because i've got it locked completely so i'm going to cut the video but it's only
going to cut the webcam part and from this point onwards i'm going to shift the webcam to here
so it's going to work as if that's two separate videos so we've got one with the video on the left
now and at that point three and it comes with the goop and the video will shift just to do
that again let's just move it a little bit further again select the video cut it at that point and at
that point i'm going to move the video up to here okay so now with the video will we be in three
places first of all we start on the left then we jump to the right and then at this point find it
in your we jump to the top so that's how you can make the video move around now when you move that
video around you can also resize so we've got it for example here quite big and what i'm going to
do here is i'm actually going to resize the video because it's only going to resize that segment
it's not going to do this because it's going to count this as three separate segments of video
now I'm going to resize that video so what we're going to actually have now is the products you can
find it in your apps that the webcam moves up to here but it's a different size as well so that's
the trick really to simply cut and splice and then move the webcam in the different segments of the
video now sometimes in the video you might actually want the webcam to be full screen
and you can do that as well in fact really if you just click and pull the webcam open onto the
screen you can make it as big as you possibly can and we could do it like that okay so what
we've got now is that at this point the webcam is fairly small it's on the right hand side obviously
at this point the webcam is fairly small it's on the left but now when we come into that third
point and let's just play that video and find it in your apps now i didn't even bother to delete
the other track i could actually delete that at this point as well because there's really no point
in having the other track as you're obviously not going to see what's behind there but really
in reality if the webcam covers it you might as well leave the track there because you can then
obviously bring it back onto the screen immediately it disappears the track will
come back on again if we just click uh to unlock that and obviously the track
ends anyway but if for example just to show you what i mean if i only had the full screen
at that point then when the video finishes then the track obviously will appear in the behind it
now I'm just going to show you another technique where when we can use the webcam
full screen and for this one what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to delete the
other channel completely so we've just got the webcam on the screen and nothing else
and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to enlarge that webcam
and obviously the quality of the webcam when you enlarge it it's going to depend on the webcam that
you're using i tend to use a really high quality webcam to get the best quality image therefore
when i expand it in size it doesn't look too bad but if you come down again to your visual effects
you do have the option to drop a device on to a device frame let me show you what i mean i'm going
to just drop drag this one on and you can see now that the webcam is sitting inside a computer image
and we've got a few devices that we can choose for example we can change that for an iphone
okay that's probably not that good or we can change it for example for a desktop or in
fact a mac book as well okay so that's another technique that you might be interested in using
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now what i'm going to do is i'm going to delete all of that off the screen
just to make this much easier and just drag on the whole video again
start right from the beginning and i'm just going to make that a little bit bigger
so let me just again see i've made a mistake there i've kind of forgot to make sure that i'm
only working with this channel so lock this channel again it's always the easiest thing
to do and that way you can only be working with the one channel this channel is locked
so i'm going to grab the webcam make it a little bit bigger and what i want to point out to you
and this is a technique i use again i'm going to first of all crop the image so get rid of a
lot of the green area around the outside okay and this is quite a nice technique and it is
something I do a lot I'm going to position the webcam about there and then I'm going to come
down onto my visual effects and I'm going to drop border around that image and what I'm going to do
make sure that you click it back onto this one okay it's kind of where you can just resize
that's the crop button this is the resize I'm gonna shift that out to be as thick as possible
so I want a nice white border and what I often try to do is pull a colour out from the image itself
so I can click here and let's say for example I want to use that blue color there so just click
on it and that becomes the border and that means i can kind of match the border with something
else in the image and that's a technique i use a lot i really like the idea of having the border
now this final technique is one that people always ask me about and that is how do i do this effect
where i'm on the screen and again the best way to do this is to lock this back screen for now
i'm on the screen and but the background is clear as well so in other words there's no
green it's just completely clear and you can see the presentation behind me well the technique
i'm using here first of all you might notice that i've recorded myself with a green screen
and you'll also notice that i'm kind of wearing red which contrasts really well so
there's no green in my image and that's important because what i'm going to do
is i'm actually going to go down to visual effects and then i'm going to say remove a color and then
it's going to say well what color do you want to remove and i'm going to say i want to remove
green and i'm going to get about the shaders as well as i can so i'm going to choose about here
and you can see now that it's removed a lot of the color and it's not quite worked and there's some
green left so what I can do is I can increase the tolerance so I might put it up to about 15
and that will tell me now whether it's all gone or what I can do is just do it again maybe I chose
the wrong shade of green you got to get the right balance to do this well so I'm going to
just do another example I'm going to drop that on again and I'm going to click here and let's
just try a slightly lighter choice see if that works better and that does seem to work better
actually so let me increase the tolerance now and I should be able to get rid of everything so now
what i've got is me but all the green is missing from my image and what i can do now is kind of
move myself onto the screen wherever i want to be and then again what i'll often do here is
again crop the image just sims i don't need all that space around the outside so the technique
is to go to visual effects and remove color now the trick to doing this is to make sure
i didn't do very well because i forgot to turn on one of my lights and that's the reason why i had
to increase the tolerance to 22 you really don't want to increase the tolerance if you can avoid it
if you've l if you've you know used the correct lighting and it's nice and bright and you've
contrasted the colors that you're wearing with the green screen you really should have no problem
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