Making a cheap green screen

[ReverendDoGood]

Hey This Is Greatm Does Adobe Premiere let you use any samples?

[mizDevine]

is poster frieze the same thing as poster paper?

[tillasmax]

Great video keep up the good work.

[jaredtheavenger]

Or, you could dye a lot of white cloth.

[FeelingGoodFilms]

So when I went into stapes after seeing this video to get some green screen paper ...

It seemed really duull :|

It wad the Green Frieze one though :/

I am confused Is that the right one?

[kerntodd]

I know the value changes from one pound equaling 'so many' dollars--so can you tell me how much this cost in dollars?

[Adild0]

Can you find a website to order some rolls, I actually need it but I'm from Belgium.

Can you help me ?

[MrNyicon24]

can someone tell me if green screen is just regular paper?

[TheDrewDays]

I think its that kind of shiny paper teachers had on notice boards.

[andyizmexican24]

@MrNyicon24 no green screen works best with cloth u can just uy a true green bed sheet or true blue bed cloth for best results

[wereKOOL123]

did you use paper or like some kind of material? coz i swear that doesn't look like paper.

it looks too pro. =)

[The6CProduction]

@wereKOOL123 i agree with you

[RCHovers]

true, Blue and green are the two colors that contrast human skin the most in our color spectrum.

[barkly54]

nice work

[NorthEastNoWest]

How many xbox 360 game, cool you must be a hard core gamer.

[GreatTutorialsOnline]

does it work?

[ChrisTheSpiritOfGods]

100k views for this.. come on lol

[hammy012]

I'd better buy a lot of green paint...

[Mac7899]

what shop

[jason3259]

does it work in final cut express / imovie 09

[teezwee123]

yes it should. check out youtube. i have a tutorial for after effects. check out my video and the tut!

[LearnTheMac]

Yes it does, but you'd be better using FCE rather than iMovie 09, as the chroma keying in FCE is a lot easier IMO.

[songmasterpro]

how much did all that cost

[AccidentallyOPurpose]

thank you, very helpfull, just one question, does it have to be a green screen or can it be a blue screen?

[jockandcariad]

It can be any colour but it's best if it contrasts with your skin colour and you can't wear clothes with the colour of the screen on it

[halveAss]

will sony vegas pro 8.0 be able to do green screen stuff

someone plz reply

[lrv94]

yep - it does do it! Not sure how though - I use After Effects

[PinPressions]

yes it does

[mohammedahmed1]

yes it does, its called chroma key.

[iPhonebusiness]

yes it works with sony vegas... very easy

just search on youtube

the vids r usualy 3 mins long so its like beginer stuff

[StonedHippie43]

what did you do for lighting

[10catlover]

how do u use it then?

[Vegetanthony]

sweet

[AnthonyRRivera]

I agree

[yogikanna]

What software do you use to make animations on the green screen? Windows movie maker?

[Tz4aark3t0m]

use sony vegas.. i like sony vegas 9 works well

[yogikanna]

Thanks Tz4aark and Luke. Do you know how much sony vegas costs, I looked up online and it looks pretty expensive (around 450 bucks) IS it possible to get it cheaper somewhere? Thanks a lot

[helloiambilly]

no!

there is lots you can use but not wmm,

adope after effects

adobe premiere

sony vegas

theres loads i use all of the previous.

x

[Bloodroke]

You can only do a shitty blue screen with WMM. I am going to switch WMM with Adobe Premiere Elements soon. :)

[takeitonemoretime123]

hell no :P get after effects i guess its my favorite

[directordjinthehouse]

i haven't used after effects before but i think fxhome is better and easier to use

[takeitonemoretime123]

well , it is easier but its not better :) try after effects for a month and you will know why its better !. good luck

[teezwee123]

yup hes right. check out my tutorial video. I teach how to come out of a cup using AE. I also have the sample video. check it out!

[teezwee123]

watch my cheap green screen effect, im kinda proud of it lol...

[CbMRuLeZz77]

what is poster "frieze" i can;t find it on the internet

[dudeboys2009]

i doesnt show up on sales sie go instoethere they ve it

[Otaiguru]

I will going to try that..

thankz man...

[VAFilmmaker87]

Using paper works for chromakey effect if you're on an extremely tight budget, but you should not use paper, cardboard, or plastic because they reflect light very easily. Instead, you should use a cloth or muslin background.

[squeegeey1]

ya i was just gonna say that

[justineasley]

cool

[blackCR4YON]

Did you use Tape to hold up the paper?

[SimUK]

Yes, masking tape around the edges and some very small blobs of bluetack to hold the two sheets tighly together in the middle.

[christownshend100]

@blackCR4YON yes he did and i just went to staples to day and got the same roll but it was a fiver lols look at my channel

[nightjj]

smart

[Inaccount]

i have a green wall ;D

[fernank017]

aha so your good to go =P

[ninjawolves]

I think I'm going to try that :O

Btw, what font was that you used in the video?

I luff it :D

[Skater077]

I think its called Max's Handwritin' Well it ilooks similar!

[ninjawolves]

Thanks! :)

[spiderconn]

ther is a much easyer way of doin this it looks better to il show tyou how sonn sending out video aboet it on my soon new acount called  (tectalk)

[Dousch]

nice

[Miiiiley]

why u need a green wall 4

[Twoteka]

it works alot better if u buy a true green bedspread. wayyyyy less reflective and about the same as a manufactured greenscreen.

[chipettefan02]

really? I just painted the spare room green,lol :}

[chewanater]

I don't know how much a £ is, but I got two really good sized green screens, a camera, and an editing software for $18.00

[18Algar19]

kwl im gonna buy sum 2mo u fink u can get it from asda?

[poocoop]

I love hot chip!

and this works

[alexsijes]

crap!!

[evildonkey]

Been using this paper myself, but I think the paper might be a couple shades too light, keying with it works but introduces noise into the subject.

[MacBookGuy91]

They have a staples in England

[macey91]

Yeah I can't find the paper either :(

[DavidCadeMedia]

They've stopped selling that paper, do you know where they sell it? Please snd me a link.

[falloutboyrocks109]

office max.

[WorstCS]

Btw The Background does not have to be Green as long as it's a Plain Background of one colur and does not clash with your clothes then it all works. You could have a Purple screen if you wanted or it could just be paint on a wall . and if you film something in school and you have those smartboards in them then you can use that when it's off as it's a plain white background

[devil4pink]

Do u use sticky tape to stick these papers?!

lol

[SimUK]

I used masking tape (it doesn't take the paint off the wall and can be re-positioned on paper easier) to stick it to the wall, with some small blobs of blu-tack between the two parts across the middle to hold it together.

[theman911ohya]

so..... are you single?

[angeldelight2]

get lost you hobo!

[zzddevilzz]

Sony vegas is a great program for greenscreening and all other editing i use it for all my videos!

[murderer93]

how much money is the software

[jakubandmatt]

i was searchine Green Screens And i saw some free green screen software on the first page(it was microsoft live)

[strikeme5]

another cheat way is a bed spread

[gurvirj95]

i have lime green walls in my room (the color is pretty sharp). But I can I just use that instead?

[SimUK]

It'll depend on what sort of green it is (I know you said Lime, but that still has various shades), but yes you should be able to. You can actually key on any colour, as long as it's different enough from the subject that yout want to keep/remove.

[gurvirj95]

it works i tried last week. like after i posted the comment. i downloaded a demo of a program. its pretty sweet

[ItsItsProductions]

ehhh I have a green wall and its the right color but I sugest that you (and I) get green screens.

[gurvirj95]

why, my wall works perfectly. theres enough space for two or three people to fit their whole body into. and anyways. i wouldnt actually get a green screen. doesnt really matter that much. and im 12 yrs. old, btw.

[ItsItsProductions]

Im ten, hehe. But perhaps our wall colors are different. Go with what you feel!

[gurvirj95]

lol, ok, and btw, do you know any good programs for the greenscreen? and wats a chromakey?

[forevertomboy]

@gurvirj95 lucky. i want lime green walls. ;(

[gurvirj95]

@forevertomboy holy shit i remember this video lol. its been2 years since i posted that comment. and my walls... are now painted red. they look way better and my walls were barely green anymore...

[devinyounanian]

how do u connect it to the camera

[SimUK]

What are you trying to connect to the camera?

[devinyounanian]

The computer for effects

[SimUK]

Well how you connect your camera will depend on what camera you have but probably via USB. You'd film the video of you in front of the greenscreen and import it in to a video editing package (such as Adobe Premiere Elements or Sony Vegas) and then "key" the background out and replace it with another video or still image.

[magermax000]

uhh, heard of Firewire? Much better quality video, at a higher transfer speed. I use final cut express HD to edit my vids.

[SimUK]

I have heard of firewire yes, but if a webcam is USB or a camcorder connects via USB then firewire isn't going to be of much use... Firewire and USB2.0 wouldn't make any difference to quality of video though on something that had been pre-recorded (although it might do on a live input such as a high quality webcam)

[magermax000]

Video quality through USB 2.0 for my camcorder sucks ass, so I tried firewire. now my videos look more high quality and professional.

[Raiden4900]

To your pc? You might have a program for your pc, and a cable too connect it via a connectionport in your camera and then in a USB port on your pc.

[Raiden4900]

Aint Premiere expensive?

[SimUK]

Premiere is, but the Elements version isn't expensive - it's up to version 4 now, and is around £65/$100. I now use Sony Vegas Movie Studio 8 Platinum which is about the same price.

[thejackandleeshow]

£65 quid is still expensive though .

[stevester05]

I went to Staples and I couldn't find the "Poster Frieze" anywhere. I even asked staff and they assured me that Staples did not sell it. Help me out!

[SimUK]

Sounds to me like they didn't know what it was so just said they don't sell it - when I bought mine it wasn't anywhere near the rest of the paper and was just down one of the aisles next to some 2 or 3ft square sheets of card in various flourescent colours - maybe ask where that is, and then look around that area to see if they have rolls of paper which is the Poster Frieze.

[thebrain001122334455]

try and get it online

[sundaeg1rl]

Great video, but the music sucks a big dog's cock

[SimUK]

I guess you could always turn your speakers off if it's really that bad... The music used has greenscreen effects as the main part of their video, which is why I picked it.

[swenterprises]

lol

[mounsteres]

Hmm 5 hands? i better go rip off some of my friends, LOL just kidding, anyway nice vid

[masterwheezy]

Could you just paint a wall green, or would that cast to much reflection in order to eliminate the green background in editing?

Or is their a paint you could used that would be non reflective to where it would be easier to eliminate the green?

I'm getting very much into this whole idea, sounds really really cool.

[SimUK]

You could paint a wall green, but that's only any good if you don't mind having a fairly permanent green coloured wall - it'd also cost more than a roll of paper and take longer to do! There is proper Chromakey Paint available, if that's what you want to do.

[izzysmart]

I use a green sheet see response

[webster128887]

can you do this in adobe premiere pro?

[SimUK]

You should be able to yes, although I don't know exactly how as I've not used it. Premiere Elements is a cut down version of Premiere Pro so you should find there are all of the options plus a lot more.

[webster128887]

Thanks, i think i found how to use it. On Monday, I'll try my first green screen test.

thank you.

[AirForce194]

Behold the awesome power of Boredom!!!

[Mp24x]

lol

[brandonformosa]

Green material from material shops is just as cheap and you will have less joins as it comes in wider peices.

[SimUK]

Very true and material would have been an alternative for me but I couldn't find anywhere that had the right sort of green in stock, and also paper is much easier to stick to a wall with masking tape and blutac - hard to hold a big sheet of material up with masking tape!

[shreader13]

thanks for the tutorial, i dident know that you can use paper, but in Abobe Premiere Elements can you make things invisible by using the green screen?

[SimUK]

Depends what you mean by "invisible" but yes you can key out anything that is using the greenscreen colour (or blue, or for that matter any colour)

[shreader13]

thats cool. im gona try to make my board invisible like they did in yea right, the skate movie. thanks for helpin

[HakFilms]

That's alot harder because your whole board needs to be green and even if it is, theres gonna be shaddows on it so it wont work as well. And you need to film 2 of the EXACT same shots, one with the skater and one without to layer under, and if it doesn't exactly line up or the auto exposure sets the brightness different, you can still totaly see where the board used to be, but good luck with that.

[VIVITER]

Never thought on using paper!!! cool

[lykhoi96]

thank you for the tutorial but can anyone tell me where i can get the motion graphic background for the editing part?.

[intothewest]

you could use ultra2. it ain't free but hey, it's good!

[evildonkey]

I got some myself, I haven't used it but to me it look a couple shades too light.

[SimUK]

Give it a try - hopefully it'll work for you like it does on my wall. I've not found the colour to be "wrong" and looking around lots of "green" that people say is right, is a different shade to someone elses, so it seems a bit subjective. A lot of it will be down to your lighting and how good your camera is, and of course how good your video editing package is at doing the keying itself.

[evildonkey]

On your video it looks about right but in the shop I wasn't sure, it was the exact one you used. The green I think of as being 'correct' is more like the ASDA logo colour. I do all my keying in Apple's Shake. I suppose you could film a paint chart and see which keys first?

[SimUK]

I originally used a swatch of different coloured card(s) to see what worked from about 100 different colours and shades - as long as you've not got a too blue or yellow-ey hue then it should work fine. At £4.50 it's worth a try and not a huge amount to lose if it doesn't do the job quite how you want.

[evildonkey]

Have you got anything keyed using that paper? What do you use to key with?

[SimUK]

There are a couple of videos on my channel which used this paper green screen - the 'Just Three Words' one, and the (not very well filmed/lit and very quickly keyed so it's not a great example) 'Where do YouTube?' video. I use Premiere Elements 3.

[gehrinpa]

you said a CHEAP green screen, but you use adobe which isn't very cheap.

[SimUK]

Well, I never said a 'cheap video editing package'... Having said that, Premiere Elements is cheap compared with the non-Elements version, and other professional video editing packages... There are other editors though that can also do chromakey, which may be cheaper...

[lagerstarfish]

Thanks for the tip. I've been to staples and am now sticking it on the wall. I'm hanging it in vertical strips and eliminating shadows at the join by lighting it from both sides (as per Apsolon's set up).

I'll let you know how it works out.

[SimUK]

I don't really have any shadows on mine as I've stuck the bottom part on over the top one (so the shadow can't cast downwards as it goes behind the lower sheet) and also used blu-tac to stick between the two bits of paper to hold them tight together. Hope it works well - post a video response showing what you manage to make!

[lagerstarfish]

I foolishly tried double sided sticky tape, thinking it would give a flatter fit (and reminded me of Blue Peter). Too hard to get right. blue tack is the way to do it! easier to adjust and re-usable.

I see what you mean about the overlap - thanks.

Have found some good flood lights (240v 500w) at Wickes for £24 with stand, £12 (500w) and £10 (150w) without. Wilkinsons have some even cheaper. What do you use?

[bsktballboy005]

what is poster frieze and where do you ge it cause i went to staples and they had no idea what i was talking about?

[SimUK]

I got mine from Staples in the UK, so it might be called something different in America. Just ask them if they sell rolls of coloured paper, or possibly "construction paper"?

[cyr3zuk]

Well i went out and bought this Paper and seen it for the same price and i bought a x2 rolls and have 1 whole wall covered, I also bought 1 500w Security light without sensor for £4.50 with 15% Discount from B&Q tried it all out and didn't work anyone here know why! is it the screen? I noticed with my camera pixels and it was brighter in the middle of the screen who knows cheers

[SimUK]

You don't want to be shining light directly at the greenscreen (any green screen) as you'll get "hotspots" from the light. Reflect it off of another surface such as an opposite wall or some white cardboard to get a consistent lighting right across the greenscreen.

[halley42]

@cyr3zuk Hey, I found the B&Q light on their website- how did you get around the fact that it doesn't come with a plug? I'd really like to know, I'm not sure what 'hardwired' (the spec on the site) means- does it mean it uses batteries? Thanks!

[Justamit2501]

i didn't know you could do that in elements. i thought it was only affter effects and ultra

[SimUK]

There are quite a few keying options in Premiere Elements - in the 'Video Effects > Keying' category there are: Alpha Adjust, Blue Screen Key, Chroma Key, Eight-Point Garbage Matt, Four-Point Garbage Matt, Green Screen Key, Non Red Key, Sixteen-Point Garbage Matt, and finally Track Matte Key.

[crowninformation]

Very nice. Thank you for taking the time!!!

[Angryp0stman]

You have a lot of xbox games...

[SimUK]

I do yes, and that's only part of the collection!

[Jadedgibb]

Hot chip. yea

[2DDAVE]

nICE VID, A CHEEP VERSION BUT NOT ALL STUDENTS HAVE A CREDIT CARD SO AT LEAST SOMEONE IS TRYING TO SHOW everyone a cheaper version... goog on ya SinMUK. aLSO CAN YOU SHOW A VID ON COMPLETING THE PROCESS IN PREMIER, MY VERSION IS 6.0? tHANKS AGAIN.

[goldendome101]

awesome dude. thanks for showing me a new feature for my premiere elements!

[nigel101]

just got off ebay 4feet by 9feet for £13 of proper gren screen :P

[SimUK]

Well done, you can get some bargain green screens if you know where to look. One of the reasons why I ended up making this one out of green paper was that I'd ordered two and they didn't arrive, and I'd waited weeks for them - ended up getting a refund.

[SpaceIntruderDetecto]

Wow a guy taping green paper to a wall. ZZZZZZZ

[SimUK]

Not just any guy, but me! And the video is meant to be the making of a greenscreen, rather than the using of one - loads of people show how they're used but it's not obvious to everyone how simple they can be to make, and on a small budget.

[ZlatniBiHLjiljan]

hahaha :D

[spencerlemoine44]

I use vegas video 4.0 Is this a good program for chroma key effects?

[SimUK]

Not sure as I don't use Vegas 4 but I think it's up to version 7 now so a newer one might give better results - does it allow for green/chromakeying as one of the effects?

[lolamaloanie1]

is that a mac program or can you use it for pc too?

[SimUK]

It's only for PC (I think version 1 was for PC and Mac)

[truedog123]

In the first ten! i niibet!

[MrBusty]

Can you use it in live video? You could play Knightmare.

[SimUK]

I need to film first and then render the video with the keyed effect, but it is possible to have "live" chromakeying with some more expensive hardware and software.

[audiocreator]

Where am I?

[OrsonTheMagnificent]

Cool, looking forward to your first greenscreen vid.

[LaaLaa]

second.

nice, but you should have chromakeyed something onto it for the closing moments!

[hanako]

first