 Continuing with our series on Caden Live again be sure to check out the link in the description for the full playlist and I recommend watching the previous videos. Today we're going to be looking at blue screens or chroma keying or green screen or whatever color you want to use. Now also in the link in links in the description to two YouTube videos uploaded which are some example videos these renders out I did in Blender so and I uploaded them already and downloaded them so I'm working with the same copies you are to make sure the quality is the same because you know when you're cutting out colors if the colors are degraded because of compression it might look different. Now in a future video I'm going to actually get in front of a green screen myself today we're going to be working with perfect backgrounds I rendered out these in these video clips or two-second clips of a monkey head spinning around in Blender first off Blender does a better job of chroma keying than Caden Live if you ask me it has more functionality I've done videos on it in the past I might do a updated video soon but if I drag like this one for example down I have this monkey head here and it's spinning around on a blue background and it is a perfect blue background except for maybe some of the compression around the monkey you might actually see a little bit of the blue but we'll talk about that when we get to it when you're standing in front blue screen you know if you have high-quality lighting in a studio with a backdrop you might be able to get you know close to this me you know I have a few blue screens and green screens that hang on curtain rods and stuff like that and I have some decent lighting but you don't get a perfect background that's why in a future video I'll get in front of a green screen myself and do another video but this is lots times you can get stock footage of stuff and it will have a perfect background like this so let me drag down this is a little clip of me pretending to hold the monkey head now also Caden Live as far as I know doesn't have any motion tracking options so we're going to place this monkey manually and you can set keyframes if you want to move it around but if you want motion tracking you're going to want to again use blender but let's go ahead and I have the monkey here and there we go it's there and what we need to do first is we're going to come up here to our effects I'm going to type in chroma and we have few options here but we're going to choose this one that says chroma key under alpha manipulation and I'm going to add that there anyway you can see our background has now become somewhat translucent you can kind of bluish though and that's because we haven't added a composite layer anytime we're working with anything that says alpha and this is under the alpha manipulation section you're going to want to add a composite so click the bottom corner of the screen we've done this number of times in previous videos will give you a dissolve effect stretch out to the full length of your clip and then change that so it says composite there is our monkey head and I don't know if you'll be able to see in this YouTube clip but there is slight blue just because the colors mix with video compression here so and again I upload this to YouTube and download it so it's a you know fairly well compressed but that's okay we can turn up the variance on here until that's gone there's no feathering effect in this option here which you might get in other things and no color spill option in this effect there are other options you effects you can add but for right now we're just going to do a chroma key turn up the variance and there is our monkey head spinning around but we want it to be over my hand there so what I'm going to do is I'm going to choose our composite layer here and I'm going to go back to our first frame here and I'm going to drag that monkey head where I want it now again I can add because obviously my hands gonna be moving around a bit I can add multiple key frames so it tracks it doesn't really track it but I manually track it I'm not going to go into that detail you can do that yourself but why I'm going to copy back clip a few times drag our composite layer over and there we go we have our monkey head spinning multiple times by my hand there again not perfect you want to move it around so it fits on my hand better and in fact since most of it seems to be up a little higher I'm going to move it up a little higher so there we go so that's very basic let's look into an and default color was blue blue or green tend to be your fault colors from doing something like this blue was originally chosen because it's on the opposite color of the opposite of the color spectrum from people's skin which tends to have a redish tinge to it and in many cases although people come in all different colors and nowadays green seems to be used more there is technical reasons for that but doesn't really matter too much as long as using a color that isn't in the rest of the image here is an example I've rendered out the same video clip but with an orange background I made the monkey head reds they're almost you know very similar colors but they're still different enough that I can do this effect you notice that when I drag it here that the offset that we did was done with a composite layer we're still using composite layer so even though I brought a new video here it's still gonna be lined up the same as before but I'm gonna choose that clip and choose chroma key again and this time I'm gonna choose the color I want and choose pick screen color and click on the color there and when I click okay it removed our background now another thing we can do let's say I wanted to and also you know I think I mentioned this earlier I rented this out and in blender not only does one of you bear chroma king but since I you rendered that monkey on blender I don't even have to do any chroma king I could just automatically suppose it so that's another reason but again this is an example as if you had stock footage where I can do here I can choose that clip come up here to my effects and if I wanted to change the color of the monkey head in this case since it's kind of a solid color there I can choose its hue and I can adjust its hue to make it all different you know whatever color I want so I can make it green but I telling you this just to give you another warning that I've mentioned in the past the order you add effects affects your effects so I changed the hue which changed what our monkey head looks like but if I put that I put that after our chroma key if I put it before our chroma key all of a sudden our background has changed color because with it after we're removing the background based on color and then change the colors where if I do this we're changing the color and then removing it where now our chroma key is looking for a color that doesn't exist anymore and I could probably pick a color yeah and it does it but now we have some hue effects there where I'm actually seeing through the monkey head so control Z control Z to undo that so just be conscious of the order you place your effects but I wanted to show you just that you could do whatever color you want and that is the end of this tutorial I'll be sure to put a rendered copy of this at the end of this tutorial if you like this video be sure to check out the full play this and subscribe so you don't miss any if you like all my videos in general think about becoming a subscriber a supporter over at patreon.com forward slash middle x1000 there's a link that in the description also remember there's links to these example monkey head clips in the video they're up on YouTube so you just pull them off of there also if you can't support me on patreon or through um what you call it what you call it what you call it PayPal which you can access on my website film site chris.com com under support think about just sharing liking subscribing that helps out a lot be sure to check out the rest of my videos and as always I hope that you have a great day oh yeah look at that it's a monkey head yeah